The Man Who Died ingoldsby end-papers printed gold

end-papers printed gold

Illustrated with 92 black and white

is assassinated by a snowman

Discreet former owner's inscription to first free endpaper

this took over from the nearby Fitzroy Tavern as the most fashionable of the many watering-holes in North Soho

The Man Who Died ingoldsby end-papers printed goldLondon: Heinemann, 1935. Second edition, first illustrated. Cloth backed marbled boards with the slightly rubbed and darkened dust jacket. Foxing to title pages, some light foxing to inside pages else a clean and tight copy. With ten wood engraved illustrations by John Farleigh. An early draft of this story was first published in 1929 in a limited edition by the Black Sun Press in Paris, under the title The Escaped Cock. A limited edition was first