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Placerville, California: The Blackwood Press, 1983. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. First Edition copy in softcover format, one of 160 copies, and printed on fine Mohawk Letterpress paper. String-tied blue card stock wraps, in gate-fold, printed paper label to front cover. Single poem on a single page, unpaginated, a powerful poem indeed. Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.

Hamburg, Germany: Published for the Crime Club by The Albatross, 1933. Softcover. Good. Scarcely available in the trade in this state and condition but with a complicated bibliography. Both "Martin Porlock" and "Oliver Fleming" were pseudonyms used by the British authors Ronald MacDonald (1860-1933) and his son, Philip MacDonald (1900-1980). Philip MacDonald also wrote as "Anthony Lawless," "W. J. Stuart" and "Warren Stuart." This novel, X. V. Rex (1933) came also to be known as The Mystery of the Dead Police, a very, very early "serial killer" novel. This is not the later edition published by Collins, but rather, an addition, no. 107 to "The Crime Club," published by The Albatross Press, spawned by the Albatross Modern Continental Library, which was founded in 1932 primarily to sell English language to those living outside the U.K. but on the European continent, and The Crime Club published the first 13 Agatha Christie titles,… Read more