THE LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original reddish pink cloth with black titles to the spine, in the Denis McCloughlin illustrated dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and tight with some bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, toned to the paper-stock are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is faded to the spine and otherwise without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (10s 6d net to the lower front flap).

Published as number 221 in T. V. Boardman's Bloodhound Mysteries. The first of three 'Gentleman' crime novels by John Boland and the basis for the 1960 Basil Dearden directed film, starring Jack Hawkins, Richard Attenborough, Nigel Patrick and Roger Livesey.