Nicholas Blake - The Worm of Death - First Edition

BLAKE, Nicholas [pseudonym of Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)].

The Worm of Death.

London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1961.

FIRST EDITION, first printing, review copy. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine. Typographic dust-jacket, with printed price of 12s. 6d. net. A review copy with the publisher's slip loosely inserted.

Internally fine, edges a little dusty. Binding lightly handled. Dust-wrapper a little rubbed and chipped to extremities with a few small closed tears to rear panel. Very good.