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Three Knots
William Le Queux
William Tufnell Le Queux was a prolific Anglo-French journalist and writer. This is one of two novels by Le Queux that were published by Ward Lock in 1922, both with a jacket designed by Blampied. Le Queux published two more novels in 1922, with Cassell.
First edition
Bibliography code: WAR-22.1
Publisher: Ward Lock and Company
Series: none
Year: 1922
Format: 8vo
Pages: pp 251, pp 4 adverts
Binding: red cloth with title, three knots, author and publishers logo in black with black rim; title, author and publisher in black on spine
Size: 188 x 133 mm
Dust jacket signed: faintly, Blam, below woman's chin in brown curtain
Internal illustrations: none
Price: 1st issue 7s 6d; later issue 2s 6d
Printing history: Later edition dated 1928
Printed by: Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London
Notes: The copy shown above is a later issue, dated 1928 and priced at 2/6d. The first edition priced 7s 6d is shown left. The jacket is the same except that between the author's name and the price on the spine there is a loop of knotted rope.
Dust jacket of later edition (click to enlarge)
Dust jacket of first edition (click to enlarge)