First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Publisher's original pictorial boards with gilt titles to the spine, in the Sax illustrated dustwrapper. A lovely fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and free of stamps and inscriptions. Complete with the very lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price clipped (15s. net to the front flap).
Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "For / J. Francis / With kindest thoughts / from his old friend / Dennis Wheatley". Chronologically, the first Duc de Richleau novel.
Stock code: 21834
£100
London: Hutchinson.
1957