"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
The Queen's Awards. Series 6.
London: Gollancz, 1953. [Crime fiction collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red clothwith black titles to spine, typographical dust-jacket with printed price 10/6 to flap. Contents clean, owner bookplate beneath flap, light spotting to edges, some minor rubs and marks to covers and jacket, which is a little chipped and torn to crown and extremities. Very good. Thirteen acclaimed mysteries, including 'The Man Whose Wishes Came True' by Forester, being the winners of the Sixth Annual Detective Short-Story Contest sponsored by Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. Item #66561
Price: £38.00
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