"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
London: Special Edition for the Book Club, no date [circa 1937]. [Crime Fiction] SPECIAL EDITION, for The Book Club (as stated), being the FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 316 [2]. With four black and white photographic plates. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Top edge red, with the original publisher's spine and upper bound in at rear. Some toning to edges, otherwise a clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. A Hercule Poirot detective mystery, published in America as 'Poirot Loses a Client'. Item #67906
Price: £175.00
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