PHILLPOTTS, Eden

The Captain's Curio

New York: Macmillan, 1933. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19cm); dark red cloth covered boards, titled in black on the title and spine; black topstain; dustjacket by Vera Block; 288pp.; spine ends lightly pushed; a few minor scuffs to lower front board; faint foxing to textblock; offsetting inside rear cover; about Near Fine. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00) with several nicks to the extremities, mostly to spine ends; mild toning; Very Good+.

"When Martin Knox is stabbed through the heart and left dead on the floor of his bedroom the whole village of Daleham-on-Exe is horror-stricken, for the old man had been kindly and apparently without an enemy in the world. Detective Inspector Midwinter of Scotland Yard is put on the case..." (from the dustjacket) HUBIN, p.326; BARZUN & TAYLOR, 1714.

Price: $125.00

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