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Edité par Ward, London, New York, and Melbourne, 1892
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [7] 8-165 [166: blank], double columns, + [1-22: ads], publisher's pictorial white wrappers printed in blue, brown and black, side stapled. Later edition. The first detective novel by van Deventer, author of many popular detective stories published under her Lawrence L. Lynch pseudonym, first published in 1879 by Donnelley, Gassette & Loyd. Wright (III) 5647 (listing the 1879 edition). Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 317 (listing a later printing). Hubin (1994), p. 518. Back wrapper and maybe a leaf of ads missing, front wrapper chipped, spine panel chipped at spine ends, a few leaves dog-eared, a fair copy. Pulpy text paper tanned, but supple, a solid reading copy with sensational cover illustration. (#172609).
Edité par Ward, London, New York and Melbourne, 1894
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, original pictorial mustard cloth stamped in red and black. First British edition. Wright (III) 5643 (listing the 1894 Rand, McNally edition). Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 308 (citing a later printing). Hubin (1994), p. 518. Slight spine lean, several stains to cloth along fore-edges, cloth soiled, 1900 prize inscription on front free endpaper, a sound, good copy. (#131699).
Edité par Ward Lock & Co. Limited, London, 1907
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, original pictorial dark green cloth stamped in light green, gold and blind. First British edition. Hubin (1994), p. 518. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 L-583 (listing the 1906 U.S. Laird & Lee edition). A very good copy. (#131703).
Edité par Ward, London, New York and Melbourne, 1895
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, original pictorial red cloth stamped in tan, black and gold, yellow endpapers. First British (and first hardcover) edition. The American Catalogue lists only a 1895 paperbound edition published at 25¢ by Rand, McNally as number 221 of their "Globe Library" series. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 316. Hubin (1994), p. 518. Spine lean, cloth worn at edges, a sound, good copy. (#131709).
Edité par R. R. Donnelley & Sons, Chicago, 1884
Vendeur : Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Etats-Unis
Edition originale
Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-557 [558: ads] [559-560: blank] [note: fourth leaf of first gathering is excised by binder; first and last leaves are blanks], 47 full-page illustrations (artist not credited), original pictorial purple cloth stamped in black and silver, light blue endpapers. First edition? Glover and Greene cite an 1884 edition published in Chicago by Henry A. Sumner & Co. Wright cites this 1884 Donnelley edition. Copyright notice reads "Copyright 1882, by / Donnelley, Loyd & Co., / Chicago. / Copyright 1884, by / R. R. Donnelley & Sons, / Chicago." Earliest listing in the American Catalogue is the 1884 Donnelley edition, but the novel may have appeared earlier in a paperbound subscription library series, possibly under the Loyd imprint as per Hubin. Detective thriller featuring Neil J. Bathurst, private investigator. Wright (III) 5644 (listing this 1884 edition). Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 315 (listing a Chicago 1884 edition with the imprint of Henry A. Sumner & Co.). Hubin (1994), p. 518. Purple cloth faded on spine panel, else a near fine copy with bright cover stamping. (#131702).