Chesterton, G. K. Four Faultless Felons. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd, 1930. First Edition. Publisher's black grained cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind border to front, 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches, vi., 310 clean pp., small nick to bottom edge of spine panel, three small light splash marks to spine. Printer's imprint, dated 7.30 at foot of p. (310). [5229]
Sullivan 83. "Published August 1930...6,000 copies. Collected from Cassell's Magazine and the Storyteller."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936), English journalist whose works include nearly all forms of written expression, including essays, novels, short stories, poems, plays, biography, and literary criticism. A Christian thinker, he sounded some of the earliest warnings against the tyranny of the modern state, and lamented the loss of wonder & beauty in modern life.