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Shiel, M. P.
Prince Zaleski.
Publisher: Martin Secker, London;
Date of Publication: 1928
Stock Code: 15666
[Second edition], after the first of 1895. Duodecimo, pp., [viii], 163, [1] blank, [4] publisher’s catalogue. Publisher’s original green cloth; titled in gilt to spine; publisher’s device to upper board; white end-papers. In the original buff coloured dust-jacket; titles printed to spine and upper panel. Contemporary Foyles book label to front paste-down. Spine panel of jacket toned; minor loss to jacket spine-tips; corners softened. Corners of binding a touch bumped; cloth and gilt bright. Internally clean and quite fresh. A near-fine copy in very good or better jacket. Shiel’s first book, comprising three supernatural detective stories. This second edition was issued as no. 43 in the New Adelphi Library. £45.00