First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. Original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and gilt fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the original lightly rubbed dustwrapper that remains without fading, loss or tears. Not price clipped (12/6 net to the front flap). Loosely laid in is the publisher's bookmark which features a photographic portrait and short biography of the author, as well as a list of works up to 'The Curtain of Fear' (1953).
Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the title page "For / S. R. Fuller / from his old friend / Dennis Wheatley". A stand alone espionage novel.
Stock code: 21829
£100
London: Hutchinson.
1953