Boodle - The Saint by Leslie Charteris first edition 1934

CHARTERIS, Leslie. Boodle.
 
London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1934.
 
First edition. 312pp with 8pp publisher’s advertisements at rear. Original publisher’s blue cloth, lettered in black to upper cover and spine with Saint device; no dust jacket. Cloth marked in places; light wear to spine ends; corners firm. Text block with a couple of marks; internally clean and sound. A very good copy.
 
An early Saint title comprising stories featuring Simon Templar. Published in 1934, the work forms part of the sequence of adventures which established Charteris’s character as a best selling crime series and led to it being adapted for the screen.