ADAMS, Frank R. King's Crew. London: Constable. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in black to the spine and ruled to the front board, in the original dust jacket signed ‘AS’. A good copy, the cloth very bright and clean, the binding tight and just slightly rolled. The contents clean, though with the front endpaper neatly cut at top corner. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), rubbed quite heavily at the corners, spine tips, and along the spine joints, with a few tiny chips and nicks, but still an attractive copy.
A Hubin-listed ‘modern version of Dumas’ “Three Musketeers” with—for the sake of modernity—one of them a woman’. Or, a fast-paced yarn of rogues, villains, lighthearted adventures and gallant gentlemen, of gangs, the police, Mexico, poison, guns, insurrection, escapes, and the death of a hero. Frank Ramsey Adams wrote various crime fiction titles and some westerns. This crime title one of only two to be published in Britain, uncommon thus.
ADAMS, Frank R. King's Crew. London: Constable. 1932. 8vo. First British edition. Publisher’s cream cloth lettered in black to the spine and ruled to the front board, in the original dust jacket signed ‘AS’. A good copy, the cloth very bright and clean, the binding tight and just slightly rolled. The contents clean, though with the front endpaper neatly cut at top corner. The dust jacket unclipped (7s 6d net), rubbed quite heavily at the corners, spine tips, and along the spine joints, with a few tiny chips and nicks, but still an attractive copy.
A Hubin-listed ‘modern version of Dumas’ “Three Musketeers” with—for the sake of modernity—one of them a woman’. Or, a fast-paced yarn of rogues, villains, lighthearted adventures and gallant gentlemen, of gangs, the police, Mexico, poison, guns, insurrection, escapes, and the death of a hero. Frank Ramsey Adams wrote various crime fiction titles and some westerns. This crime title one of only two to be published in Britain, uncommon thus.
