London: Frederick Muller, 1954. First edition. Very good in a very good dust jacket, shelf wear along edges and spine ends, some loss to head of spine panel, several closed tears. (6769). Octavo, Hardcover. The first novel in this series, introducing Ludovic Saxon, The Picaroon "gay and swashbuckling buccaneer of crime." Signed inscription by Cassells, an association copy: "To Leo-...Bill Duncan [John Cassells], October 14/54." The Leo is editor and publisher Leo Margulies, who was involved in anthologies, magazines and pulps from the '30s onward. Not in Hubin (1994).

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Bookseller: John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 6769
Title: ENTER THE PICAROON
Author: Cassells, John (pseudonym for William Murdoch Duncan)
Book Condition: Used - Very good in a very good dust jacket, shelf wear along edges and spine ends, some loss to head of spine panel, several closed te
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Frederick Muller
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1954
Keywords: Adventure Fiction . Mystery . Signed

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