8vo, pp. 202. Original dark blue boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown, rust staple marks to front and rear free endpapers, a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just a little light edgewear.
First US edition of Lustgarten's second book, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode the same year with the title A Case to Answer. Adrian Homer Goldstone's copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. A Haycraft-Queen title.
Bibliophile and book collector Adrian Homer Goldstone [1897-1977] wrote the bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck.