KINGSTON, Charles. The Infallible System: A Monte Carlo Mystery
KINGSTON, Charles. The Infallible System: A Monte Carlo Mystery. London: The Bodley Head. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's green cloth lettered in yellow to spine and upper board, in the exquisite dust jacket designed by 'Logi'. A sharp example, the cloth clean and bright with slight mark to the front board top corner. The binding remaining particularly tight and square. The publisher's mustard topstain very vivid, though with a stain, and some light marks to other textblock edges. The contents, barring some light offsetting to endpapers, fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) with a noticeable loss to the front panel top corner. Some faint mottling, the corners gently rubbed with some stains to front and rear flap extremities. Scarce.
The author's fifth book. An intriguing murder mystery in which slight adventuress, Irma Chetwynd, accompanies the devilish Rodway Sinclair to the glitz and glamour of Monte Carlo. There, Sinclair's sudden death leads Irma to the mysterious Langley Warner and his ever more curios gambling device, the infallible system. The use of white space in the cover art by Logi is just marvellous.
KINGSTON, Charles. The Infallible System: A Monte Carlo Mystery. London: The Bodley Head. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's green cloth lettered in yellow to spine and upper board, in the exquisite dust jacket designed by 'Logi'. A sharp example, the cloth clean and bright with slight mark to the front board top corner. The binding remaining particularly tight and square. The publisher's mustard topstain very vivid, though with a stain, and some light marks to other textblock edges. The contents, barring some light offsetting to endpapers, fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) with a noticeable loss to the front panel top corner. Some faint mottling, the corners gently rubbed with some stains to front and rear flap extremities. Scarce.
The author's fifth book. An intriguing murder mystery in which slight adventuress, Irma Chetwynd, accompanies the devilish Rodway Sinclair to the glitz and glamour of Monte Carlo. There, Sinclair's sudden death leads Irma to the mysterious Langley Warner and his ever more curios gambling device, the infallible system. The use of white space in the cover art by Logi is just marvellous.
KINGSTON, Charles. The Infallible System: A Monte Carlo Mystery. London: The Bodley Head. 1929. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's green cloth lettered in yellow to spine and upper board, in the exquisite dust jacket designed by 'Logi'. A sharp example, the cloth clean and bright with slight mark to the front board top corner. The binding remaining particularly tight and square. The publisher's mustard topstain very vivid, though with a stain, and some light marks to other textblock edges. The contents, barring some light offsetting to endpapers, fine. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net) with a noticeable loss to the front panel top corner. Some faint mottling, the corners gently rubbed with some stains to front and rear flap extremities. Scarce.
The author's fifth book. An intriguing murder mystery in which slight adventuress, Irma Chetwynd, accompanies the devilish Rodway Sinclair to the glitz and glamour of Monte Carlo. There, Sinclair's sudden death leads Irma to the mysterious Langley Warner and his ever more curios gambling device, the infallible system. The use of white space in the cover art by Logi is just marvellous.