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The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake. First Edition, Signed & Inscribed to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.

The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake. First Edition, Signed & Inscribed to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.
The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake. First Edition, Signed & Inscribed to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.
The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake. First Edition, Signed & Inscribed to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.
The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake. First Edition, Signed & Inscribed to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.
The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake. First Edition, Signed & Inscribed to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.
The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake. First Edition, Signed & Inscribed to Nicholas Llewelyn Davies.
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The Beast Must Die, Nicholas Blake

First edition, first printing, inscribed in the year of publication by the author to Nicholas "Nico" Llewelyn Davies, the youngest of the Davies Boys who served as the inspiration for the stories of Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie. From the collection of Larry McMurtry, with his personal bookplate affixed to the front endpaper. The Beast Must Die was the fourth detective novel that Cecil Day-Lewis, poet Laureate of the U.K. and father of actor Daniel Day-Lewis, wrote under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake. Regarded as the best of these pseudonymous works, the novel has been the basis for multiple adaptations, most recently the 2021 British television series of the same novel. 

London: Collins Crime Club, 1938. Publisher's original red cloth, spine lettered in black; pp. (x), 9-284 + [2 ads]. A very good copy in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains firm, minimal shelfwear to boards with an area of sunning near spine heel, scattered foxing to fore-edge. Light offsetting to endpapers, else internally quite clean. Jacket shows a bit of general shelfwear with chipping at spine tips, several closed tears at spine heel, light scattered spotting to spine, back panel toned and lightly rubbed. Rare in the dust jacket, even more so signed. Protected in archival mylar.

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