"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
The Ace of Knaves (The Saint).
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Mystery collection] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (18.5 x 13cm), pp.316; [4], advertisement. Publisher's cornflower blue cloth with blue endpapers, lettered in black to the spine and front cover. Contents clean, owner name to free endpaper, covers gently handled, joints rubbed, minor soiling to rear. Better than many copies seen. Very good indeed, lacking the scarce jacket. Three Simon Templar novellas in one volume, all of which were adapted as episodes in 'The Saint' television series, aired in 1963-4. Precedes the American first. Item #71937
BARER, Burl. The Saint in Print, Radio, Film & TV, p.393.
Price: £120.00
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