Author: Yates, D. [pseud. for Cecil William Mercer]
Title: A collection of 21 titles, five with jackets
Description: Ward, Loc & Co. Various dates, generally late 1940s.Hard covers.Good/Mostly no jackets.""Leading characters"" on front flap of jacket of ""The house that Berry built"". Contains the following titles: And five were foolish, An eye for a tooth, Anthony Lyveden, As Berry and I were saying, Blind corner, Blood royal, Cost price, Fire below, Jonah and Co. Maiden stakes, Period stuff, Perishable goods, Red in the morning, Safe custody, She fell among thieves, Shoal water, Storm music.The brother of Daphne, The house that Berry built, The stolen march, Valerie French.Most are in green cloth, some noticeably sunned along the spine, the exceptions being in black, blue and tan cloth.They generally have just the signature of the former owner; a few have longer donors' inscriptions.Most are Ward Lock's later reprints, but there are one or two 'firsts'.A reasonable cross-section of his oeuvre, omitting several of his later works.Saki was his cousin. In English.1 kg.

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