Sara Woods - Bloody Instructions - Anthony Lejeune's Proof Copy

WOODS, Sara (Pseudonym of Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd (1922-1985).

Bloody Instructions.

London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1962.

PROOF COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256; [4]. Publisher's patterned wraps. An interesting copy with a typed letter on Collins headed paper regarding sending a copy of the book to Anthony Lejeune at the request of Collins' Crime Club editor George Hardinge.

Internally fine, some marking to edges first and last few leaves and to the wraps. Very good.

The author's first novel.