"A book should serve as the axe for the frozen sea within us."
— Franz Kafka
The Dancing Floor.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1926]. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.311; [1], blank; [10]. With a frontispiece map of the island. Elegantly hand-bound in half green crushed morocco by Bayntun Riviere, with traditional raised bands to spine, gilt tooling, green buckram-covered sides, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Contents clean, exterior as new. Thriller novel set on the mysterious Greek island of Plakos, featuring the character Sir Edward Leithen - an aristocratic lawyer and MP who appears in five adventures by John Buchan, this being the third. Item #74331
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