" It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life. "
— Henry Ward Beecher
London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1936. [Literature/ Crime Fiction] FIRST APPEARANCES. Quarto (26 x 20cm), pp.672. Illustrated throughout in sepia and colour. Original magazine parts bound in a half-yearly volume of light blue cloth pictorially blocked in black to front covers, gilt to spine, all edges tinted blue. Contents clean and fresh, covers lightly rubbed, some mottling/discoulour to pigment, edge tint has faded. Very good. Alongside the two Poirot stories and the Father Brown mystery, this volume contains Queen of the Seas and The Tragic Story of Parnell by Churchill and Farewell to Legs and Buried Treasure by Wodehouse. An exceptionally scarce late volume of the Strand, with desirable content (bound volumes ceased at no.100). Item #73367
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