No Pockets in a Shroud
London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1937.
First edition, first printing in correct dust jacket priced at 7'6 net. [viii], 307, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with red lettering and topstain. Very Good+ with slightly toned and foxed cloth, former owner's name on front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers, in the seldom-seen unclipped dust jacket, printed black on orange paper, Near Fine with wear at extremities, a few short tears, slightly dulled spine panel. The hardboiled American author's follow-up to his better-known debut novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, printed in the UK a full 11 years before its first American publication as an abridged paperback original. Scarce in jacket.
Price: $3,500.00