First UK edition. Publisher's original green cloth; gilt lettering to spine. Light foxing to fore-edge of text block and front free endpaper. In pictorial dust jacket with a drawing by Peter Till to front. A little curled to head of front panel; minor sunning to spine. *** A near fine copy of this collection of stories about "the world's more or less notable villains", originally written for an Argentine newspaper in the 1930s. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni.