The Broken Penny

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  • SIGNED [x], 243, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
  • New York: Harper & Row, 1953
By Symons, Julian
New York: Harper & Row, 1953. First American edition. [x], 243, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Cloth backed boards. Near fine in very good dust jacket (wear at ends of spine panel and along front flap fold). Two bookplates of George Sims. First American edition. [x], 243, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed by the author to antiquarian bookseller and crime novelist George Sims on the flyleaf, “A broken penny for a broken soldier JS”

Julian Symons and George Sims were friends of many, many years. Walsdorf A5b. Provenance: George Sims; David Holmes

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