Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

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Cecil Waye | The Figure of Eight, 1931

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February 4, 05:05 PM GMT

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800 - 1,200 GBP

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Cecil Waye


The Figure of Eight. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1931


FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, minor browning to endpapers, minor hole to upper hinge, spine slightly bumped, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with some minor loss and occasional tears


Cecil Waye was a pseudonym for Major Street (1884-1965) who also wrote as John Rhode and also Miles Burton. The Figure of Eight was his second novel published as Waye and is announced by the dust-jacket blurb as "a thriller if ever there was one".


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The Alexis Galanos Collection