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The Tongue-tied Canary
| Binding: | Hardcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | Yes |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | Good |
| Dust Jacket Protection: | Mylar-style |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Impression: | 1st Impression |
| Signature: | None |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Michael Joseph |
| Publication Year: | 1948 |
| Publication Place: | London, UK |
| Book ID: | 029962 |
| Catalogue(s): | Modern Fiction Firsts ◇ Fiction - Crime, Mysteries and Thrillers |
First edition, first printing. 224pp. In black cloth-covered boards with red lettering on gold relief on the spine. 8vo. Cloth a little worn, gently rounded on corners and spine ends. Pages a little off-bright but else interbnally neat, clean and tight. In its original dust wrapper, rubbed and nicked on edges, corners and spine ends with minor loss. Dust jacket now protected in a Mylar wrapper fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.
Nicolas Bentley, the son of crime writer E C Bentley, was a leading commercial artist and humourist in the1920s and 30s. The dust wrapper claims this as his first novel but it wasn't - it was preceded by Gammon and Espionage a decade earlier.
