Claude Houghton / A Hair Divides Signed 1st Edition 1930

Author: Houghton, Claude Title: A Hair Divides Publication: London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, 1930 Edition: First edition. Description: 8vo, 283, [3]pp. Publisher's ads at rear. Signed by Houghton on the ffep.

Publisher's black cloth stamped in blind and red in illustrated jacket by John Morton-Sale. Few smudges to boards, small pink stain to lower corner of final two blank pages else nearly fine. Jacket with light foxing to verso and flaps, similar pink stain to lower corner of rear panel and base of spine, else nicely preserved.

Advertising card from the publisher laid in. This book was published right on the heels of his most well known work.

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