BUDE, John. Trouble A-Brewing
Trouble A-Brewing, John Bude. 1940. London: Macdonald. 8vo. First edition. The scarce first edition of this early Inspector Meredith crime mystery. Bude was the pseudonym of Ernest Carpenter Elmore. The publisher’s blue cloth with red lettering to the soine, in the original dust jacket. A very good book, the cloth clean, the corners and tips just gently bumped. The binding tight with a gentle lean. Small Exeter bookshop label to front pastedown corner, and otherwise bright and clean throughout, with virtually none of the light spots from the textblock seeping into the pages. The dust jacket good, unclipped and generally complete with several closed tears, chips, nicks and rubbing to most corners and edges, with some tape repairs at the verso. Nevertheless a presentable copy.
Trouble A-Brewing, John Bude. 1940. London: Macdonald. 8vo. First edition. The scarce first edition of this early Inspector Meredith crime mystery. Bude was the pseudonym of Ernest Carpenter Elmore. The publisher’s blue cloth with red lettering to the soine, in the original dust jacket. A very good book, the cloth clean, the corners and tips just gently bumped. The binding tight with a gentle lean. Small Exeter bookshop label to front pastedown corner, and otherwise bright and clean throughout, with virtually none of the light spots from the textblock seeping into the pages. The dust jacket good, unclipped and generally complete with several closed tears, chips, nicks and rubbing to most corners and edges, with some tape repairs at the verso. Nevertheless a presentable copy.
Trouble A-Brewing, John Bude. 1940. London: Macdonald. 8vo. First edition. The scarce first edition of this early Inspector Meredith crime mystery. Bude was the pseudonym of Ernest Carpenter Elmore. The publisher’s blue cloth with red lettering to the soine, in the original dust jacket. A very good book, the cloth clean, the corners and tips just gently bumped. The binding tight with a gentle lean. Small Exeter bookshop label to front pastedown corner, and otherwise bright and clean throughout, with virtually none of the light spots from the textblock seeping into the pages. The dust jacket good, unclipped and generally complete with several closed tears, chips, nicks and rubbing to most corners and edges, with some tape repairs at the verso. Nevertheless a presentable copy.