first edition of the author's first book

A lovely copy of the first edition of the author's first book, in which he introduces the detective Cheviot Burmann.

First edition; 8vo; faint offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine and upper cover black, minor spotting to edges, with the original unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, top edge of upper panel with light crease, a few faint marks, else near-fine.