RENT COLLECTION COURTYARD Sculptures of Oppression and Revolt by NA - 1970

New York,, 1938. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket.. Slight handling wear, faint rubbing at extremities with slight foxing to endpapers, otherwise sound, close very good with clean text. . 8vo. pp 256. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. A plaster effigy of a druid helps Inspector Mayhew solve a murder case.

New York: Phoenix Press, 1938. Inspector Mayhew, with the help of a plaster effigy of a druid, traps the killer of the effigy's sculptress. Hitchen's first book in the scarce original jacket. Blue boards with bright red lettering are lightly bumped and rubbed, binding square and solid with the previous owner's bookplate on the front end paper. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, including 1" chips to the lower front panel near the flap fold and the upper front flap. Remnants of an old edged jacket protector to the upper and lower edges of the jacket with external tape reinforcement to the spine and flap folds, in new Brodart.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.