MR. CAMPION CRIMINOLOGIST ... SEVEN IMPORTANT EPISODES FROM THE CASE BOOK OF ALBERT CAMPION.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-308 [309-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First edition. The Doubleday, Doran edition includes a novelette, "The Case of the Late Pig," and two stories, "The Case of the Man with the Sack" and "The Case of the Pro and the Con," not included in the UK edition published two years later by Heinemann as MR. CAMPION AND OTHERS. [Reference: Queen's Quorum 92. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 32 and 2311. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 13]. Spine ends slightly bumped, offsetting to pages 110-111 from what was likely a newspaper clipping originally laid in, a fine copy in a nearly fine price clipped dust jacket with a bit of very light edge rubbing and mild wear to spine ends and corner tips, 22 mm closed tear to upper front panel and a short closed tear to lower rear panel. A bright attractive copy. (36143). Item #36143
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