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UK: Geoffrey Bles. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition; 8vo; hbk; maroon cloth boards; ochre colour lettering to spine and publishers symbol on spine; a little flaking to cloth on spine at edges; small name written at top of fep (not author) ; pages tanning, heavier at edges; generally clean & sound. No dustwrapper present. G+; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Geoffrey Bles. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Ex libris bookplate on front endpaper, G. Butterfield, Dunedin. Some foxing. Small 5mm tear at head of dust-jacket spine, 4mm chip at tail of dust-jacket spine. Some rubbing marks to rear panel of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.Overall quite a nice copy of this title.; First printing. 255, [1 (blank)] pages. Maroon boards with yellow lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 185 x 123mm. Crime fiction, a novel. "There was motive enough for the murder of Fred Dunstable, but when Inspector 'Jimmy' Waghorn is sent down to the little village of Cradwell to investigate his death, he finds it difficult to be satisfied with any of the solutions offered by the local police. Whose was the half-smoked cigarette found near the body? [. . .]" - from dust-jacket blurb. John Rhode and Miles Burton are both pseudonyms used by Major Cecil Street. "As 'Rhode' he… Read More