Not to Be Taken by Berkeley, Anthony

Paperback. Good. Offered by the UK charity Langdon/supporting people with disabilities.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

House of Stratus, 2001. Book. Near Fine. Soft cover. First Ed Thus. First British trade paperback ed. thus. Near fine condition, very slight over all wear..

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited 1938. 8vo. 252, (3) pp. Publisher's blue cloth with black lettering to front board & spine. In pictorial dust wrapper. Jacket slightly edge worn and fading to the spine. Cloth spine slightly faded. Internally clean. No ownership names. Binding firm. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1938.

London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1938. First Edition. Very good/Good. 8vo. 7 1/4 x 4 3/4 in. (182 x 121mm); pp. 356 + iii. Grey cloth binding with black lettering, dampstain to the tail of the spine, light toning to the edges of the pages but no stains or foxing. Dust jacket present with some tears and chips to the head and tail, and a 1 x 2 in. piece missing to back. The first edition of this classic arsenic murder, with its DUST JACKET. The book was published one year later in the US under the title "A Puzzle in Poison" (see our inventory no. 450). Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893 - 1971) is today recognized as a key figure in the development of crime fiction. He wrote under several pen-names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. He was educated at Sherborne School and University College, Oxford. He served in the British Army during the First World War and worked as a journalist for many years, contributing to such magazines as Punch and The Humorist. His first novel was… Read More