€60
Eric Knight, You Play the Red and the Black Comes Up, Scherz 1944. First continental edition (original h/b in USA in 1938 under a pseudonym of Richard Hallas, fetches up to five figures); paperback original, no hb in Europe; ‘not to be intro into the British Empire’. Card covers, 8vo, No 29 in the Phoenix Scherz series, 330 pps dull but a vg copy of a rare and much sought after book. Considered a classic of its genre by the author of Lassie come home. (1)
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