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STATED FIRST PRINTING. Black title, motif and ruling on orange cloth boards. Boards are faded with a small indentation to front with slightly darkened spine which has a 3 inch separation to lower side. Internally clean and unmarked apart from some small handwritten numbers to rear pastedown and a mark to top of half title page. BEAUTIFUL FAIRY BOOKPLATE OF H.H. HARROD BY GILBERT LEDWARD DESIGNED SPECIALLY FOR HIM. H.H. Harrod was the author, writer son of the founder of Harrods Department Store. A novel of a young Englishman's protracted and violent vengeance on an American crook who nearly murdered him and on the "Delilah" whose treachery gave him the chance. **** A VERY SCARCE JEPSON TITLE **** Edgar Alfred Jepson 1863-1938 was a prolific crime / thriller writer. His son Selwyn was also a crime writer and his daughter wrote as Margaret Jepson and her daughter is the well known author Fay Weldon.

GOLDEN AGE OF DETECTION, MURDER MYSTERY CRIME FICTION, H.H. HARROD, GILBERT LEDWARD BOOKPLATE