CROOKED HOUSE

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square with some bumping to the spine tips and board edges. The contents, with the occasional finger mark to the margins and spotting to the closed text block edge are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the good, rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that has several short closed tears (secured with clear tape to the underside), and a chip to the bottom of the spine just touching the edge of the publisher's name which has been coloured to tape on the underside. Not price-clipped (correctly priced 8s 6d net to the front flap).

First published in America by Dodd, Mead and Company in March 1949, the British edition followed on 23 May of the same year. (Hubin; Wagstaff & Poole; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman).