Books published by publisher Dodd, Mead and company

First edition, First issue with "Genesis" spelled wrong on page 59. Bound in black cloth with white lettering. John Farleigh illustrations through-out. A Near Fine copy, with tiny rub marks at the corners. Black cloth is bright, clean, white lettering is not rubbed. Dj has a 1cm chip near the base of the spine ,tiny frays at the head of the spine & small chips to the corners of the rear panel .A Nice copy in an average dj.

Hercule Poirot stood on the clifftop. Here, many years earlier, there had been a fatal accident. This was followed by the grisly discovery of two bodies-a husband and wife who had been shot dead. Hardcover; But who had killed whom? Was it a suicide pact? A crime of passion? Or cold-blooded murder? Poirot delves into the past and discovers that "old sins leave long shadows."

Dust jacket notes: "It was the great poet Swinburne who wrote of The Golden Age as 'one of the few books which are well-nigh too praiseworthy for praise. The art of writing adequately and receptively about children is among the rarest and most precious of all arts.' In its pages, alive with memories of the author's boyhood, a troupe of clever and imaginative youngsters carry out their pranks and adventures, evoking youth for every reader. To illustrate these tender and mischievous reminiscences, there is a new series of drawings depicting the scenes and characters of the stories. These were made especially for this edition by Ernest H. Shepard, whose art reveals that rare duality of appeal to both youth and adult, to each of whom the classics of Kenneth Grahame are perennially addressed."