The Black Cap: New Stories of Murder and Mystery

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. (pictorial orange cloth; no dust jacket) [modestly worn book, a touch of fraying at ends of spine, some dust-soiling to top of text block, former owner's name plus date & place of purchase in ink at top of front endpaper]. Lady Asquith's second anthology. Contents: "Shall We Join the Ladies" (J.M. Barrie); "The Killing-Bottle" (L.P. Hartley); "An Unrecorded Instance" (Mrs. Belloc Lowndes); "A Considerable Murder" (Barry Pain); "The Tarn" (Hugh Walpole); "The Islington Mystery" (Arthur Machen); "Circumstantial Evidence" (Edgar Wallace); "The Prince" (W.B. Maxwell); "The Smile of Karen" (Oliver Onions); "The Lovely Lady" (D.H. Lawrence); "The Hospital Nurse" (Shane Leslie); "Telling" (Elizabeth Bowen); "Footprints in the Jungle" (W. Somerset Maugham); "The Lovely Voice" (Lady Cynthia Asquith). .