The Poet and the Lunatics

London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1929. First Edition. Original black cloth with lettering in gilt with light foxing to page edges, otherwise a crisp example. Dust jacket remains uncommonly bright with small chip at bottom front corner, darkening to spine and rear panel with small closed tear to top front panel reinforced with tape verso. Very Good. A collection of interconnected short stories featuring Chesterton’s painter turned amateur detective Gabriel Gale. First published in Nash’s Magazine in 1921. One of 6,000 copies. Not usually found in its dust jacket. (Sullivan 71)