KINGSTON, Charles. The Infallible System
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 nice example, the book about fine, a trifle pushed around spine tips and corners, but the binding tight and square, the yellow topstain vivid. The contents fine throughout with minor offsetting to endpapers and slight abrasion to front endpaper top corner. The dust jacket correctly priced at 7/6 net to the spine panel, the spine and rear panels suffering from some water damage, not affecting either the book or the front panel. A few small nicks around the spine tips and corners, light instances of rubbing along joints, but a handsome copy. 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 nice example, the book about fine, a trifle pushed around spine tips and corners, but the binding tight and square, the yellow topstain vivid. The contents fine throughout with minor offsetting to endpapers and slight abrasion to front endpaper top corner. The dust jacket correctly priced at 7/6 net to the spine panel, the spine and rear panels suffering from some water damage, not affecting either the book or the front panel. A few small nicks around the spine tips and corners, light instances of rubbing along joints, but a handsome copy. 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 nice example, the book about fine, a trifle pushed around spine tips and corners, but the binding tight and square, the yellow topstain vivid. The contents fine throughout with minor offsetting to endpapers and slight abrasion to front endpaper top corner. The dust jacket correctly priced at 7/6 net to the spine panel, the spine and rear panels suffering from some water damage, not affecting either the book or the front panel. A few small nicks around the spine tips and corners, light instances of rubbing along joints, but a handsome copy. 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.