Description

[005195] Haycraft, Howard; Blake, Nicholas [Day-Lewis, Cecil] (Introduction) Murder for Pleasure – The Life and Times of the Detective Story. London: Peter Davies, 1942. First Edition. 8vo. Hardback. Good / Fair. [4], v-xxvii, [1], 347pp, [1]. Original cloth in DJ

DJ worn and torn, chipped to spine ends and corners, but complete. Book dust stained to top edge of text block, light foxing to fore edge of text block, former owner’s name to ffep, but generally internally quite bright and clean

Book appears to be the first edition (with no reprint information), but the DJ is the second printing

Includes the Haycraft ‘cornerstones’ list