Berkeley

1948 · réf. 807D39 — London: Collins 1948. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good Only. 7.5" by 5". None. The sixteenth thriller novel in Gray's 'The Norman Conquest' series presented in the unclipped dust wrapper. First edition. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. 'The Spot Marked 'X'' is the sixteenth novel in 'The Norman Conquest' series. In this thriller novel Conquest 'takes the law into his own hands' with help from his wife Pixie as well as 'Sweet William'. Berkeley Gray 1889-1965 also known as Edwy Searles Brooks was a British novelist who wrote the Sexton Blake novels as well as The 'Ironsides Cromwell' novels. He wrote close to one-hundred novels and is believed to have written around forty-million words. Collated complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding in the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. A bit of bumping to the extremities and head and tail of spine along with fading to the bottom half of spine. Marks left from tape to endpapers. Light spotting to text block. Dust wrapper is sound with marks and discolouration to wraps. Age-toning to margins of reverse. Edge wear to wraps with chipping to spine region. Loss to bottom half of spine region. A few small closed tears to wraps with a tape repair to the bottom edge of the front wrap. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very clean throughout with light age-toning to pages. Very Good Collins hardcover