The Garden of Silent Beasts
London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1931 [first edition].
Octavo, 320 pages.
Cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges and a few leading margins slightly marked; endpapers offset; top margin slightly cockled throughout (a little more pronounced in the first third of the book); overall still a better-than-good copy.
Inscribed 'To Aunt Rick, with love, Perce. Leaden Roding, 15 Jan. 1932' (from the South Australian-born author Percival Charles Rodda, to relatives in Adelaide). A Professor Bastion mystery thriller (with a visit to Australia in passing); the author's eighth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym (Loder).
Item #75180
Price (AUD):
$120.00