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First impression of the true first edition. ***Very good in red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to spine. Head and tail of spine and top edge of boards slightly faded. Owner's name in blue fountain pen to front free endpaper: 'Kate Flint'. Fore-edge of text-block and rear endpaper foxed. Interior pages clean. Spine slightly slanted. Spine tight. ***In a good yellow, black and magenta titled dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 12/6 net. Head and tail of spine of dustwrapper chipped with one inch tear to head of spine of dustwrapper. Edges of dustwrapper slightly creased ad rubbed. Small loss and rubbing to corners of dustwrapper. Tiny closed tear to top edge of front panel of dustwrapper. **192mm x 130mm. 192 pages. ***An Inspector Appleby detective thriller set during the Cold War, involving a bacteriologist who has vanished who is an expert in biological warfare. ***Prof John Innes Mackintosh Stewart HFRSE DLitt (1906 - 1994) was a Scottish novelist and academic. Michael Innes is the pseudonym of J. I. M. Stewart, who was a lecturer at Queens College, Belfast and later was an Oxford University professor. Under his pseudonym, Michael Innes, he wrote nearly fifty crime thrillers between 1936 and 1986. His most famous character is Sir John Appleby, a Scotland Yard Detective Inspector. He is known for his works of literary criticism and literary novels published under his real name, and for his crime fiction books published under his pseudonym of Michael Innes. Readers knew of Michael Innes crime thrillers; other readers knew the literary novels and short stories and literary criticism under the name of J. I. M. Stewart, but not many people were aware this was the same author. However, his crime thrillers, although he considered these to be entertainments, make frequent literary allusions. ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper. ***Of interest to collectors of Michael Innes first edition titles and J. I. M. Stewart. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.…