BROOKE, Justin. The Sinister Encounter (signed)
BROOKE, Justin. The Sinister Encounter. London: Modern Publishing Company. n.d. [1937]. Small 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the fabulous dust jacket designed by G. P. Micklewright. This copy inscribed by the author to the title page facing, ‘With all good wishes, “Justin Brooke” (J. Richard Taylor) // Shipston on Stour’ and dated 3 April 1938. An excellent, fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean, evenly toned throughout from paper quality, with gift inscription to title page, ‘To Bill from Kathleen” and dated 1937. The dust jacket complete and fine but for a couple of minor closed tears.
Taglined ‘a great thriller’ involving, as the jacket suggests, a murder in bed. The Modern Publishing Company came to prominence in the 20s and 30s, issuing cheap reprints and new fiction, primarily thrillers and mysteries, utilising wonderful jacket designers, as with this one. The endpapers are advertisements, the paper quality is poor, and the book is shorter than the usual quarto size. Scarce in such condition, especially so with the author’s inscription; OCLC locates three copies.
BROOKE, Justin. The Sinister Encounter. London: Modern Publishing Company. n.d. [1937]. Small 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the fabulous dust jacket designed by G. P. Micklewright. This copy inscribed by the author to the title page facing, ‘With all good wishes, “Justin Brooke” (J. Richard Taylor) // Shipston on Stour’ and dated 3 April 1938. An excellent, fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean, evenly toned throughout from paper quality, with gift inscription to title page, ‘To Bill from Kathleen” and dated 1937. The dust jacket complete and fine but for a couple of minor closed tears.
Taglined ‘a great thriller’ involving, as the jacket suggests, a murder in bed. The Modern Publishing Company came to prominence in the 20s and 30s, issuing cheap reprints and new fiction, primarily thrillers and mysteries, utilising wonderful jacket designers, as with this one. The endpapers are advertisements, the paper quality is poor, and the book is shorter than the usual quarto size. Scarce in such condition, especially so with the author’s inscription; OCLC locates three copies.
BROOKE, Justin. The Sinister Encounter. London: Modern Publishing Company. n.d. [1937]. Small 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in black to the spine, in the fabulous dust jacket designed by G. P. Micklewright. This copy inscribed by the author to the title page facing, ‘With all good wishes, “Justin Brooke” (J. Richard Taylor) // Shipston on Stour’ and dated 3 April 1938. An excellent, fine copy, the cloth clean, the binding tight and gently rolled, the contents clean, evenly toned throughout from paper quality, with gift inscription to title page, ‘To Bill from Kathleen” and dated 1937. The dust jacket complete and fine but for a couple of minor closed tears.
Taglined ‘a great thriller’ involving, as the jacket suggests, a murder in bed. The Modern Publishing Company came to prominence in the 20s and 30s, issuing cheap reprints and new fiction, primarily thrillers and mysteries, utilising wonderful jacket designers, as with this one. The endpapers are advertisements, the paper quality is poor, and the book is shorter than the usual quarto size. Scarce in such condition, especially so with the author’s inscription; OCLC locates three copies.