Chesterton, G. K. The Incredulity of Father Brown. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1926. First American Edition, Second Printing, August, 1926. [12033]
Butterscotch color cloth with black titles, publishers' rectangle device stamped in blind at the bottom right of the front cover, binding clean and very good with a short pull at the front edge of the top of the spine, 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, tight. [viii], 270 clean pp. It has the scarce color dust jacket that shows some soil and edge-wear, clipped at the corners, dj flaps are not printed, small bump/tear at the top edge of the spine panel; now in a clear protective wrapper. We did not get the color exactly correct for the book photos...the binding is a little lighter in color than shown. Very good in good dust-jacket. Hardcover.
Eight detective stories collected from Cassell's Magazine and Nash's Pall Mall Magazine.
The second printing (August, 1926) of the first American edition (June, 1926).
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.
