The Secret of Tangles. Another Case for Anthony Slade and Department X

GRIBBLE, Leonard R.

Published by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, London, 1934

About this Item

First American Edition. -- Condition: Fine, small split to rear inner-hinge, in near fine dust jacket, short closed tear to upper edge of front panel, colour touch-up to spine, outer edges and folds, and paper restoration to corners and spine ends. -- Details: Fine publisher's copy with 'File Copy. Not to be removed from office' stamped to front fly leaf. First American edition, verso of title page with 'Copyright, 1934' and no mention of further printings. Published in the London in 1933 by Harrap. Leonard Reginald Gribble (1908-1985), one of the founders of the Crime Writers' Association and a prolific author, mostly focussed on policing and the judicial system, he also wrote under the pseudonyms of Sterry Browning, Leo Grex, Louis Grey, Piers Marlow, Dexter Muir and Bruce Sanders; he also wrote some Westerns, and Landon Grant. -- References: Reilly,Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (1980), 702. -- Octavo (book size 19.5x13.3cm), pp. 288. In publisher's red clothspine and front panel lettered in black, top edge stained red. Dust jacket priced '$2.00' to lower corner of front flap, all flap corners with publisher's decorative trim, rear upper corner more severely, and with colour touch-up to spine, outer edges and folds, and paper restoration to corners and spine ends. Dust jacket about 1.5mm shorter than book, as noted on other copies. --.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret of Tangles. Another Case for Anthony Slade and Department X
• Publisher: J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, London
• Publication Date: 1934
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included