London.T. Werner Laurie Ltd. 1938. Hardback. 222pp. Illustrated with 16 black & white plates. Original yellow cloth, lettered in black. Original pictorial dust-wrapper. Octavo. First edition. Wrapper in a worn at the edges and extremities, with some tears, but with only two small chips from the lower panel.; top fore-edge a little spotted; some light brown clouding on the title; slight darkening at the foot of spine; else a very good copy of a scarce book rarely found in the original dust-wrapper. From the library of the crime writer Julian Symons.