Barbara Worsley-Gough - Alibi Innings - First Edition

WORSLEY-GOUGH, Barbara (1903-1961).

Alibi Innings.

London: Michael Joseph, 1954.

FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.239; [1]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. Striking dust-jacket designed by Freda Nichols, with printed price of 10s. 6d. net. 

Internally fine, moderate spotting to edges and endpapers, lacking rear free endpaper. Slight lean to textblock. Binding has a few faint marks, gilt to spine a little dulled. Dust-jacket toned and marked, some loss towards the foot of the spine and to the rear panel, rubbed to folds some, small chips and closed tears. Uncommon. Very good.

Murder mystery set with the annual cricket match between the Squire's eleven and the village side as the the backdrop.