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

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries, with occasional resurgences throughout. Jacket rubbed and chipped to edges and folds. Very good. The long-awaited sequel to 'Trent's Last Case' (1913). Item #56385
Price: £150.00