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Night Exercise

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Night Exercise Cloth - 1942

by John Rhode

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  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardback
  • first
  • John Rhode
  • Detective Fiction
  • Modern Fiction
  • First Edition
  • 1942
  • Collins for The Crime Club
  • Wartime Fiction
Used - Near Fine

Description

London: Collins for The Crime Club, 1942. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. An excellent first edition, first impression of Cecil Street's wartime detective novel, complete with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. Very scarce.With the equally very scarce original dust wrapper, clipped. During a night exercise for the Wealdhurst Home Guard, a widely detested Group Commander, Colonel Chalgrove, disappears under mysterious circumstances.A pleasing copy of this stand-alone detective novel written under the pen name of British writer Cecil Street, best known for his long-running Lancelot Priestley series. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with only mild shelf wear. Dust wrapper is smart, with marks to the rear panel and minor edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. With very minor offsetting and one or two spots to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. Near Fine
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  • Title Night Exercise
  • Author John Rhode
  • Illustrator None
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Near Fine
  • Publisher Collins for The Crime Club, London
  • Publication date 1942
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 985Y38
  • Size 7.5" by 5"
  • Quantity available 1

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