Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection
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February 4, 05:05 PM GMT
Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
Lot Details
Description
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".
PROVENANCE:
The Alexis Galanos Collection