George Bagby; Aaron Marc Stein — Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand
London, Macdonald, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A scarce copy of this mystery novel by George Bagby. One of the Schmidt novels, 'Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand' features Bagby himself as "the Watson to Schmidt's Holmes, following him on cases, and acting as biographer." Complete with its original unclipped dustwrapper, illustrated by Batchelor. First edition. In a full cloth binding with unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent. Minor shelfwear only. Dustwrapper is bright and largely intact with a small closed tear to the upper edge and some occasional slight loss to extremities. Some spotting to text block edge. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.
