As well as the seven colour illustrations
Light marking and wear to the edges of an otherwise very good
"These are simply the most beautiful pictures in the world" (Lucian Freud)
The artist Harold Hope Read (1881–1959) usually spelt his name without a hyphen
Boards and spine clean and unmarked
Dreads and Drolls Agatha Christie As well as the sevenMACHEN, Arthur. Dreads and Drolls. London: Martin Secker, 1926. First edition, first printing of the author's collection of essays concerning various historical and purportedly true tales of real characters and the strange and seemingly supernatural situations surrounding them and, often, their demises. Publisher's green cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind twin rule to covers, top edge coloured (but now faded). A fair copy only, binding with a heavy