Presentation Copy Dedication 1st Ed (1 results)

8°. 311 pp. Original brown cloth with title to spine and front cover, in hand made red half morocco box with cloth wrapper "First edition of these 14 stories set in the infamous Limehouse district of London, the first and most important book by Burke, early example of modern crime fiction. - Some browning, endpapers and fore-edge with some little foxing, else inside apart from very few spots mostly clean. - Endpaper with a manscript dedication by the author "? in memory of may light (?)?" with monogram TB. ".…