First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the upper board and spine, in the R. H. James designed dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and tight with a small bump to the centre of the spine, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are foxed to the prelims and closed text block edge. Complete with the rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper that is faded to the spine with a few small scuffs. Not price-clipped (7/6 net to the lower front flap).
Inscribed by Cecil Freeman Gregg in black ink on the front pastedown "To Len / With all good wishes / Cecil / Oct 19th 1931". Further signed and dated by the author on title page. An Inspector Cuthbert Higgins mystery.
Stock code: 25646
£275
London: Hutchinson.
1931