New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1947

8vo, pp. 202. Original dark blue boards, lettered in white to front panel and spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Bookplate to front pastedown, rust staple marks to front and rear free endpapers, a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with just a little light edgewear.

First US edition of Lustgarten's second book, first published in the UK by Eyre & Spottiswoode the same year with the title A Case to Answer. Adrian Homer Goldstone's copy, with his bookplate to front pastedown. A Haycraft-Queen title.

Bibliophile and book collector Adrian Homer Goldstone [1897-1977] wrote the bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck.