Product Description
First edition of this comic pastiche, in which a host of ghosts and literary constructs - Shakespeare, Boswell, Socrates, and Sherlock Holmes among them - seek after their house-boat, formerly lost on the River Styx.
6.5'' x 4.25''.
Original tan pictorial cloth, with green, red, and black image of Captain Kidd stamped on front board.
Gilt-lettered spine.
BAL state B.
204 pages, followed by [4] pages of publisher's advertisements.
This copy from the library of noted actor and Sherlockian Curtis Armstrong, with his emboss to front free endpaper.
Second fly leaf detached.
Some soil and toning to cloth; spine deeply sunned.
Minor bumping to corners.
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