JOHN WAIN. — The Contenders. A novel.

Macmillan & Co. Ltd., London, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 279pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A sliver of discolouration to the board extremities, and a shade of offsetting from the dust wrapper design to the backstrip cloth. A tiny hint of spotting to the lower edge of two preliminary leaves. Very good indeed in very good non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper designed by Raymond Payne, lightly dust soiled at the rear panel and with a fraction of loss from several extremities. The author's third novel., Very Good, Very Good