"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at £2.50. Damp marks to margins throughout. Damp staining to endpapers. Jacket spine sunned, with some light bruising to edges. Very good. A police murder-mystery starring Harry Dawson. Item #56205
From the library of Anthony Lejeune (1928-2018), critic and writer for 'The Tablet' and the 'National Review.'.
Price: £95.00