first edition
1937 · New York
by INNES, Michael [John Innes Mackintosh Stewart ]
New York: Dodd, Mead, 1937. First Edition. First Printing. [Red Badge Detective] Octavo (20cm); black cloth covered boards titled in gilt on the spine and blind stamped on front cover; orange topstain; 334pp.; minor split to front hinge; spine ends are lightly pushed; minor rubbing/spot of discoloration to front board; topstain slightly faded; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket.
"This early Innes with the magnificent title captivated the imagination of these readers early in their critical career, for the situation, the setting and the narrative are of high quality...Hamlet, Revenge! is a 1937 novel by Michael Innes (a.k.a. J.I.M. Stewart), his second novel. It centers on the investigation into the murder of the Lord Chancellor of England during an amateur production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which he plays Polonius, and other crimes which follow at the seat of the Duke of Horton, Scamnum Court." BARZUN & TAYLOR, 1220; HUBIN, P.221; (Wikipedia). (Inventory #: 54481)
"This early Innes with the magnificent title captivated the imagination of these readers early in their critical career, for the situation, the setting and the narrative are of high quality...Hamlet, Revenge! is a 1937 novel by Michael Innes (a.k.a. J.I.M. Stewart), his second novel. It centers on the investigation into the murder of the Lord Chancellor of England during an amateur production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which he plays Polonius, and other crimes which follow at the seat of the Duke of Horton, Scamnum Court." BARZUN & TAYLOR, 1220; HUBIN, P.221; (Wikipedia). (Inventory #: 54481)