Bodies in the Bookshop: A Detective Story

1st edition, 1st impression. 178pp. Light grey cloth covers (a little worn at edges and soiled). Lending sheet on front free endpaper, no other library markings. Pages toning and perhaps a little brittle. In its original dust jacket (rubbed at edges and corners, two closed tears along spine joint and leading edge, shelf wear and soiled, but complete and distinctive) . A Professor Stubbs story. Very hard to find title from this breezy but ‘on the whole grammatical’ author. Ruthven Campbell Todd was a Scottish poet, artist and novelist, mostly remembered for editing the works of William Blake. During the 1940s he also wrote detective fiction as R T Campbell. A Jacket fitted with archival-quality mylar wrapper to protect & prolong its life. It is not adhered to the book or to the jacket.