The Deadly Percheron - John Franklin Bardin 1947 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First English Edition A clean sharp copy in a fine and thus rare example of the delicate Gollancz dust jacket.

The first of Bardin’s acclaimed trilogy, which was followed by ‘
The Last of Philip Banter’ and ‘Devil Take the Blue-Tail Fly’.
  Published in New York the previous year by Dodd, Mead & Company.

Thin octavo (book size 18.8x12.9cm), pp. [2] 192. In publisher’s blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket priced ‘8/6 NET’ to spine.
  Condition: Fine with the exception of a hint of fading to the spine, in fine dust jacket   Ref: 110395   Price: HK$ 2,500