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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1948. [Crime caper] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.253; [2], advertisements; [1], blank. Publisher's pale blue cloth in illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Jarvis, priced 8/6 to front flap. A few spots to edges, usual (light) bleaching to cloth in places, jacket with some chips and tears, rubbed to joints, tape strip to each panel; very good. Simon Templar, alias The Saint, on two racket-busting adventures in New York and Chicago; 'The King of the Beggars' and 'The Masked Angel'. Item #64576
BARER, Burl. The Saint in Print, Radio, Film & TV, p.395.
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