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KING, Charles Daly (1895-1963). The Curious Mr. Tarrant. London: Collins for The Crime Club, [1935].
8o. 4-page publishers' advertisement at end. (Light foxing to first and last few leaves.) Original cloth (lacking front free endpaper, front hinge cracked, spine lightly faded); cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION of King's only collection of short stories, featuring Trevor Tarrant. "The eight 'episodes' in [this book] are in many ways the most imaginative detective short stories of our time" (Queen's Quorum). RARE, according to the publishers of the 1977 American edition, the present is "one of the rarest volumes of twentieth-century detective fiction" (back wrapper). Queen's Quorum 91.
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FIRST EDITION of King's only collection of short stories, featuring Trevor Tarrant. "The eight 'episodes' in [this book] are in many ways the most imaginative detective short stories of our time" (Queen's Quorum). RARE, according to the publishers of the 1977 American edition, the present is "one of the rarest volumes of twentieth-century detective fiction" (back wrapper). Queen's Quorum 91.