Author: Berkeley Gray
Title: The Spot Marked &Apos;X&Apos;
Description: London, Collins, 1948. First edition. Cloth. 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&apos. 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 . Ill.: None. Very Good/Good Only.

Keywords: The Spot Marked 'X' Berkeley Gray Norman Conquest Novels thriller Berkeley Gray Ironsides Cromwell Sexton Blake None


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