as ashdown clifford (1 Ergebnisse)

First edition, first impression, of the author's first detective book, "published under the pseudonym of Clifford Ashdown and written by Freeman together with a medical colleague [John James Pitcairn] who was also a prison officer, is said to be the rarest book of crime short stories" (Julian Symons, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Nove: A History, 1972, p. 86). Four of Richard Austin Freeman's books are Haycraft-Queen cornerstones. Hubin p. 15. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board in gilt, illustration to front board in white. W. H. Smith & Son blind-stamp to front free endpaper. Fading to spine and around board edges, some marks to front board, rubbing to ends and corners, faint spotting to endpapers; a very good copy.