First edition, first printing. Original green cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. Top edge green. Illustrated throughout with black and white line drawings by Geoffrey Whittam. A very good copy, the binding firm, with a slight lean to the spine. The contents, with spotting to the text block edges, prelims, and a little to the margins, and a tiny closed tear to the front free endpaper, are otherwise clean and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the rubbed and creased original dustwrapper which has chips to the spine and flap folds and a closed tear to the front flap fold which has been repaired to the inside with a piece of tape. Price clipped.
The eighth title in the Romney Marsh series.
Stock code: 21132
£50
London: Collins.
1954