Description: THIS NOVEL WAS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT OF THE GOLDEN AGE OF CRIME WRITING, THE FIRST LORD PETER WIMSEY NOVEL OF DOROTHY L.SAYERS, WHO RIVALLED AGATHA CHRISTIE AND MARJERY ALLINGHAM IN POPULARITY.THIS COPY IS THE 3rd IMPRESSION OF 1929 (FIRST PUBLICATION IN 1923.) THIS EDITION IS RARE. THERE ARE NO COPIES OF THE FIRST & 2nd ISSUES ON THE INTERNET, AND THREE OF THIS ISSUE: AT £128 (FEP REMOVED): £129; AND £195 (LIBRARY BINDING.) APART FROM SUNNING OF THE SPINE, THIS IS AN OUTSTANDING COPY AT 95. (FOR INFORMATION ONLY - NOT INCLUDED.) I AM DOWNSIZING MY LIBRARY OWING TO ISSUES OF SPACE. POSTAGE IN UK: £2.50. SECURE, RECYCLED PACKAGING. 100% POSITIVE FEEDBACK. PLEASE LOOK AT MY OTHER LISTINGS, INCLUDING A NUMBER OF SIGNED MODERN NOVELS AND MANY BOOKS ON TIBET & THE HIMALAYAS.
Price: 130 GBP
Location: London, London
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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Binding: Cloth
Personalised: No
Place of Publication: LONDON
Shape: Rectangle
Signed: No
Publisher: ERNEST BENN
Modified Item: No
Year Printed: 1929
Original/Facsimile: Original
Language: English
Fiction Subject: LORD PETER WIMSEY SOLVES A MURDER MYSTERY
Original/Reproduction: Original
Region: UK
Author: DOROTHY L. SAYERS