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Lot Closed
February 4, 02:01 PM GMT
Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley et al.
Six Against the Yard... London: Selwyn & Blount, [1936]
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 32pp. publisher's catalogue at end (1936 Spring List), original pink cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, minor spotting and browning, light spotting to edges, spine slightly bumped, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with minor loss and occasional tears, minor abrasions to dust-jacket spine
Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, Freeman Wills Crofts, Father Ronald Knox, Dorothy L. Sayers and Russell Thorndike each contribute a story which is then each investigated by the retired Superintendent George W. Cornish of the C.I.D.
LITERATURE:
Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone
PROVENANCE:
The Alexis Galanos Collection