Elephant and Castle : a Reconstruction

HARDBACK "RARELY AVAILABLE," SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1949 * Publisher: Cassell & Company Ltd. *
Binding and cover condition: Black-black cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, a few very slight marks to back board. Minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine. No other visible faults. VG+.* Jacket condition: Colour illustrated dust wrapper. Red & white titles to spine and face. White illustration of elephant and castle design on black background. NOT PRICE CLIPPED, showing a shelf price of 15/- net. Age darkening to interior. Some shelf wear to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine with minimal losses. Now in clear un-attached protective jacket. GD+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight spotting and marks to end papers, otherwise no visible faults. VG++.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 692 pp. text. i pp. blank page at rear.* Description: In 1938 a crime was committed in a back street not far from the Elephant and Castle tavern in Southwark. It was widely reported in the provincial as well as the London press, but public interest, engaged by affairs of greater moment, was short-lived. Having some personal knowledge of the people involved and a novelist's curiosity about them, R.C.Hutchinson set himself to find out everything he could about the immediate and the remoter causes of the crime; and in this, the first full-length book he has published since 1940, he gives the results of his investigation in the form of a continuous narrative.* A NEAR FINE text copy with some age and shelf wear reducing it to GD+. Dust jacket now in clear un-attached dust-wrapper.*