Bimbashi Baruk of Egypt

New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($2.50), lightly rubbed and soiled. Blue cloth, rubbed at the bottom edges, with gilt lettering on the spine. Square and firmly bound, former owner's signature inside the front board, clean otherwise. Rohmer's crime novel about the titular character, the son of an Arab sheik and English mother, who has an "uncanny power of scenting crime and bringing the criminal into the open.