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1914 The Wisdom of Father Brown
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Description
Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding
The first edition, first impression.
'The Wisdom of Father Brown' is the second anthology of Father Brown stories, collecting together twelve exciting adventures, in which the small Catholic priests solves many crimes whilst being faces with false leads and baffling clues.
Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, by Sidney Seymour Lucas.
Including 'The Absence of Mr. Glass', 'The Paradise of Thieves', 'The Duel of Dr. Hirsch', 'The Man in the Passage', 'The Mistake of the Machine', 'The Head of Caesar', 'The Purple Wig', 'The Perishing of the Pendragons', 'The God of the Gongs', 'The Salad of Colonel Cray', 'The Strange Crime of John Boulnois', and 'The Fairy Tale of Father Brown'.
Written by G. K. Chesterton, an English author best known for this character.
Condition
In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks to the cloth, a little heavier to the front board. Small chips to the top edges. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Spine is faded, as is the top edge and joint of the rear board. Front hinge is starting but firm. Gft inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with scattered spots. Very small tide mark to the tail of pages 236 to the rear endpaper.
Good
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