CECIL DAY LEWIS (writing as 'Nicholas Blake'). — The Private Wound. A novel.

Collins, The Crime Club, London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 223pp. Red boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top- and fore edge spotted, and with a short sliver of discolouration to the cloth at the head of the upper board. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with some considerable fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. A pseudonymous mystery thriller (one of just four standalone novels that he wrote alongside his series of 'Nigel Strangeways' detective novels)., Very Good, Very Good