First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A near very good copy, the binding a little shaken and cocked, spine tips softened, scattered marks to the cloth, and some cracking to the rear hinges. The contents, with minor spotting to the endpapers and the closed text block edge, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. The dustwrapper is rubbed and nicked with a few short tears (a little loss to spine tips and corners) but remains bright.
The seventh book to feature agent Doctor Stanislaus Alexander Palfrey. (Hubin).
Stock code: 27100
£35
London: John Long.
1946