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Atkinson, M. E
Mystery Manor.
Publisher: John Lane the Bodley Head, London;
Date of Publication: 1937
Stock Code: 11324
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 407, [1] advertisements. Illustrations throughout by Harold Jones, including frontispiece, decorative title page and full-page plates. Publishers’ blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge stained purple. Pictorial endpapers featuring Plan of Wilbrow Manor and Environs, in unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A clean copy with no annotation or inscriptions. Cover cloth rubbed with slight wear at corners and spine tips; slightly shaken. Dust-jacket a touch soiled and foxed with nicks & creases, small loss to edge and repair to reverse at head of spine with adhesive tape. A very good copy in a good jacket. Sequel to “August Adventure” in which the children set out to prove “there aren’t such things as ghosts”. Particularly rare with dust-jacket. £75.00