Val Gielgud - A Necessary End - First Edition Signed & Inscribed London: Hodder & Stoughton

London: Hodder & Stoughton

The whole housed in a paper covered slipcase

Mortal Engines additionally dated 16th November 2001 (day of publication) and with a promotional postcard from the publisher loosely inserted

With promotional tote bag

Dust-jacket featuring an illustration by Peter Maynard

Val Gielgud - A Necessary End - First Edition Signed & Inscribed London: Hodder & StoughtonGIELGUD, Val (1900 1981). A Necessary End. London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1969. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp. 223; [1]. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine. Dust jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill, with printed price of 21s. net. Bookplate of C. C. Waghorn to pastedown, some slight spotting to edges. Dust wrapper shows very well, some light bruising to top edges, tiny nick to foot of spine. Near fine.