Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts et al. | Double Death, 1939

Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts et al.

Double Death. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, two diagrams, original black cloth lettered in orange, DUST-JACKET, some spotting and browning, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, bookseller's label to front fixed endpaper, slightly soiled dust-jacket very slightly frayed at extremities, printed price on dust-jacket spine excised, repair to reverse

As explained by the preface, the volume was conceived as a "murder story... written by six different authors, each author to contribute a separate chapter... As each author completed a chapter the growing manuscript was handed on to the next man or woman..." The contributors were Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts, Valentine Williams, F. Tennyson Jesse, Anthony Armstrong and David Hume.

PROVENANCE:

The Alexis Galanos Collection