Fine Books & Manuscripts
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Lot 171
[FINELY-BOUND MODERN FIRSTS]. HALLAS, Richard [pseudonym of...
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[FINELY-BOUND MODERN FIRSTS]. HALLAS, Richard [pseudonym of Eric Knight]. You Play the Black and the Red Comes Up. New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1938. 8vo. 213 pp. Beautifully bound in a modern art binding by H & H Bindery in full pictorial, multi-colored (printed?) leather, front board lettered in gilt, spine with black and burgundy gilt morocco lettering labels, four raised bands, gilt turn-ins, marbled endleaves (text toned, some visible dampstaining to top edge of text block, some edgewear, soiling to fore-edge of text block). Fine. FIRST EDITION OF THIS HARD-BOILED CRIME NOVEL IN A BEAUTIFUL ART BINDING WITH A GAMBLING THEME. Measurements: 9 x 6 x 1?.
