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CHESTERTON, G.K. The Man Who Knew Too Much and Other Stories. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1922.
8o. Original grey-green cloth, black-lettered on front cover and spine; pictorial dust jacket (remains of a few old tape repairs on verso, small chip at head of spine just touching two letters, some light soiling).
FIRST EDITION. "Horne Fisher, a prematurely bald dilettante overflowing with idealism--'The Man Who Knew Too Much'--is presented as an amateur criminal investigator who, in solving strange and intricate riddles of crime, passes through experiences as bewildering and unexpected as the most blasé reader could desire" (dust jacket). Copies in the dust jacket are scarce, with none appearing in American Book Prices Current for the last 25 years.
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FIRST EDITION. "Horne Fisher, a prematurely bald dilettante overflowing with idealism--'The Man Who Knew Too Much'--is presented as an amateur criminal investigator who, in solving strange and intricate riddles of crime, passes through experiences as bewildering and unexpected as the most blasé reader could desire" (dust jacket). Copies in the dust jacket are scarce, with none appearing in American Book Prices Current for the last 25 years.