Bailey, H.C. BLACK LAND WHITE LAND: A Reginald Fortune Detective Story. London: Victor Gollancz1937
8vo. Original publishers black cloth with title in orange to spine in dustwrapper, pp. 288, small booksellers stamp to the bottom of front endpaper with minimal toning to the text block edge, dustwrapper slightly faded to the spine, otherwise very good.
First edition, first printing
Henry Christopher Bailey was an important English crime novelist of the 'Golden Age' alongside Agatha Christie. The popularity experienced during his lifetime did not extend into legacy- he has been largely forgotten. He was mainly known for his many short stories featuring the medically-qualified detective Reggie Fortune, an eccentric surgeon affiliated with Scotland Yard but with his own sleuth agenda…
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