[Rarebooks] FS: Mystery Writer's Scarce First Book, Copy #1 of only 12 SIGNED in a fine binding, 1931, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced:     Was $750,      Now $500

FLETCHER, J[oseph] S[mith] (1863-1935). VERSES WRITTEN IN EARLY YOUTH. 
(London): Privately Printed (Unwin), 1931. First Edition. Bound in full 
polished greem calf leather by Bayntun Bath with gilt-ruled borders and 
spine and contrasting morocco spine labels with gilt lettering, gilt 
dentelles and marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Of a total of only 62 
copies printed, this is Copy #1 of only 12 printed on handmade paper and 
SIGNED by the author, a noted journalist turned writer of mysteries, 
including THE MIDDLE TEMPLE MURDER (1918), a favorite of Woodrow 
Wilson's, and THE CHARING CROSS MYSTERY (1923). Some rubbing along 
joints and edges. Near Fine and obviously a very desirable copy of a 
scarce book. (#011672) $500.00

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