"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke
London: Cassell and Company, 1929. [Detective Fiction] FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[viii]; 1038. Elegantly hand-bound in half deep red calf over matching cloth-covered sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands, top edge tinted red-brown. Contents clean, exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. The first collected volume of Father Brown mysteries. Item #69355
Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction p79-82, Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction. Book Collector No.273, p34.
Price: £225.00
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