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Mitchell, Gladys.
Merlin's Furlong.
Publisher: Michael Joseph, London;
Date of Publication: 1953
Stock Code: 12072
First edition. Octavo, pp. 224. Publisher’s black cloth with gilt titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial dust-jacket. A bright, neat book in a near fine dust-jacket. Previous owner’s bookplate to front free end-paper, with small sticker to rear free end-paper. A few small shiny spots of dried glue to boards and slight discolouration to upper board with corresponding areas of colour transfer to verso dust-jacket. Classic crime novel in the Mrs Bradley series, centring on a number of mysterious and violent deaths at Merlin’s Castle, with an unnerving link to witchcraft. Stylised dust-jacket artwork by B. G. Yates. £200.00