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Sutherland, H. W.
A Case of Knives.
Publisher: Geoffrey Bles, London;
Date of Publication: 1964
Stock Code: 14660
First Edition. Duodecimo, pp., 221, [1]. Publisher’s original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Gerald Broadhead, depicting the bridges of the river Tyne; original black cloth, titled in silver to spine. Small nick approx 1cm to upper panel of jacket, minor nicks to upper edge of lower jacket, pencil price to inner flap; else jacket clean and neat. Binding clean and fresh. Spots of soiling to fore-edge, contents otherwise clean, bright, and fresh. A near-fine copy in like jacket. A scarce semi-autobiographical comic novel on a Tyneside schoolteacher in the process of writing a novel. £20.00