"There is no friend as loyal as a book."
— Ernest Hemingway

Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to rear. Near fine. First appearance in book form- contains short stories published in the 1930s in "Black Mask" magazine. Item #53389
Price: £250.00