Tales from Two Pockets. Translated from the Czech by Paul Selver. apek (Karel) Modern First Edition

FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, occasional faint spots to early leaves, pp. 287, crown 8vo, original pink cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt and slightly darkened, gently rubbed at extremities, top edge green, others with a few faint spots, Foyle's ticket to front pastedown, dustjacket by Dorothea Braby, price-clipped with just a hint of toning and a couple of miniscule nicks, very good. A selection from the author's cycle of short detective stories, 'unusual' - as the publisher's blurb emphasises - in both the manner of crime and detection. Dorothea Braby's dustjacket design, rather literal, is very pleasing.