No Pockets in a Shroud

London: Arthur Barker Ltd, 1937. First edition. First edition, first printing in correct dust jacket priced at 7'6 net. [viii], 307, [3] pp. Bound in publisher's cloth with red lettering and topstain. Very Good+ with slightly toned and foxed cloth, former owner's name on front free endpaper, offsetting to endpapers, in the seldom-seen unclipped dust jacket, printed black on orange paper, Near Fine with wear at extremities, a few short tears, slightly dulled spine panel. The hardboiled American author's follow-up to his better-known debut novel They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, printed in the UK a full 11 years before its first American publication as an (truncated) abridged paperback original. Scarce in jacket. (Inventory #: 140944758)