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Buy this book on-line JOHNS,Captain W[illiam] E[arle]**: : STEELEY FLIES AGAINLONDON.LATIMER HOUSE,1951. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,12mo HB+dw/dj,1st edn thus.[Originally published 1936,this edn completely revised
and reset,1951.]VG+/VG+.No owner inscrptn,
no price-clip to dw/dj.Colour,pictorial illustrated upper wrap by Stead,with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to
edges and corners.A closed tear with reciprocal creasing but no loss,to upper,
front,lower edge in the vicinity of foot of spine/backstrip.Both head+foot of spine/backstrip minimally rubbed with some
light,usual chipping.Rear wrap very lightly grubbed.Top edge lightly dust-soiled,lightly aged/tanned - as usual/
normal and lightly,sporadically foxed/
spotted,fore-edge similar but less aged and therefore brighter,but more foxed/
spotted;slightly cocked but contents bright,tight and clean - no dog-ear creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Bright,clean,publisher's original,
plain blue cloth bds with bright,black ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and
lightly foxed/spotted eps,lightly cocked.
Appears that the front pastedown's outer edge is folded back under itself by approx
2" and therefore the ffe has been pasted down over the fault.(Possibly a production
process fault?) Eps+prelims have light, sporadic foxing/spotting,else clean.12mo,
5-152pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters+
Curtain,plus [unpaginated] half-title+
title pages.An uncommon title from the Steeley series and very difficult to find as a 1st edn thus - being reprinted several times.
Being the further adventures of
"Steeley" Delaroy, gentleman adventurer, sometime air-smuggler,more recently unofficial police agent.Told by his war-time comrade,and partner in his adventures,Captain "Tubby" Wilde.
Curiousity aroused by the finding in a Paris cafe of a newspaper from which a small news paragraph had been cut led
'Tubby' Wilde and Brian Ballantyne to the discovery of a murder in a pension in Montparnasse,
where they also find their old friend
'Steeley' Delaroy,who had apparently joined forces with 'Slick' Ferrara - gunman,killer and Public Enemy No.1 in his own State of Texas.
They learn that Steeley's motive is to find his fiancee Virginia Marven,whom Ferrara is holding to ransom.A bout of gunplay,a clash with the police and a thrilling escape leads Tubby and Brian to the gang's headquarters in an old tin mine
on Dartmoor,where a clue is found which sends them post-haste to a villa in Monte Carlo.
Here Virginia Marven is found and her rescue effected after an exciting gun-fight resulting in the death of 'Slick' Ferrara and most of the gang.
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