ALLINGHAM, Margery. Mr. Campion Criminologist. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. 1937.
8vo. Original black cloth with red lettering to spine and "The Crime Club" emblem with roughedge pages and red top edge; illustrated red and black price-clipped dust jacket; pp. [xii], 308, [2]; offsetting to pastedowns, previous owners label stamped to front pastedown; slight loss to top and bottom of dust jacket spine with scuffing to corners, otherwise very good.
First Crime Club edition.
A pioneer of "The Golden Age of Detective Fiction", Mr. Campion: Criminologist is comprised of a number of thrilling stories surrounding the antics of Margery Allingham's ever popular character, Albert Campion, and contains "seven important episodes from his casebook"(blurb) including the novella "The Case of the Lost Pig", also published on its own as the ninth novel in the Campion series.
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