FREEMAN WILLS CROFTS. — The Cask.

Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1st Edition, The first American edition of the author's first novel, issued four years after the fugitive UK edition. 8vo. 319pp. Brown cloth lettered in red at the spine and upper board (although the spine lettering is now somewhat tough to make out). Cloth rubbed, chafed and a little worn at the extremities. Hinges tender yet binding still firm. Paperstock tanned with the occasional light miscellaneous marginal blemish. A good copy. Originally published by Collins in June 1920 in a print run of 1,000 copies, Crofts' Haycraft Cornerstone was an immediate success, launching his career as one of the great writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction., Good, No Jacket