first edition
[1926] · London
by FREEMAN, R. Austin
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1926]. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; [4],5-312 + [8]pp ads. Light offsetting to endpapers, a bit of wrinkling to cloth toward base of spine, with a hint of sunning to spine cloth; contents clean; Very Good+ or better, lacking the dustjacket. "A good Thorndyke story, in one continuous part. Dr. Stephen Gray tells it, a complex affair but not unbearably so. Polton plays an important role. Much detail re waxwork and its manufacture. Internal evidence of composition much earlier than date of publication" (BARZUN & TAYLOR 889). HUBIN, p.157. (Inventory #: 53446)