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Cloth. Etat : Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. Stories (some based on fact) written to highlight the plight of the 'unhappy criminals' suffering under the 'present cruel and valuless system of prison administration'. First Edn., 1905; full red cloth; titling/illus. (convict chained to stone) blocked in black full to front board; titling/plain rules blocked in black to spine; publisher's logo blocked in black to rear board; 256pp.; illus. bw. plates. Soiled soine lightly worn at top and slightly rubbed/crushed at tail, but complete/intact; rear board moderately worn at fore-edge; very soiled/slightly scuffed boards lightly worn at bottom corners; page edges moderately foxed/tanned; slight browning/light foxing to endpapers/preliminaries; sporadic light soiling/slight foxing to occasional pages, but text very fresh, pages generally quite crisp/bright. Binding secure, all complete/intact. No inscriptions. Poor. PRICE INCLUDES UK POSTAGE & PACKING. Illus. by A. PEARSE (illustrateur). Hardback.…

Etat : Good. First Edition. London: George Newnes, 1894. First Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's pictorial cloth stamped in black, brown, and gilt; [4],370pp.; fifteen (of twenty-eight) halftone plates. Binding rather crudely recased with repair to spine ends, new endpapers, fairly extensive reinforcement to fore-edges of interior leaves; lacking frontispiece and eight interior plates, old pencil scribbles to title page. A rather indifferent, Good only copy of this exceedingly scarce collection of medical mystery stories. Queen's Quorum 17.…