griffiths major arthur george frederick (4 résultats)

A clean sound restored copy of this scarce title by the prolific author, military historian, prison governor & H.M. Inspector of Prisons [1878-1896] Publishers bevel edged cloth.Cr.8vo viii. 435 pps+ 4pp publishers catalogue dated June 1903. (Originally published as The Wrong Road by Hook or Crook).

First Edition. Demy 8vo (8.5 x 6 ins) pp xxii + 370; 32 plates including the frontispiece, mainly portraits and maps. Publisher's bright red cloth with oval gilt bust of Wellington to front board beneath gilt title lettering; gilt lettering and Wellington crest to spine. With large inked owner's name of Clara Field, 1898, written to front pastedown. Top edge of the pages gilt, fore-edges untrimmed. Light edgewear to boards and spine ends. A solid and clean copy. Book.

A clean sound reading copy of the scarce first edition.8vo vi. 229pps.plus 12pp unopened publishers catalogue dated August 1893 navy blue publishers cloth lettered to spine.No ownership marks.Original editions are increasingly scarce.

Small octavo, pp. [i-v] vi [1] 2-233 [234: printer's imprint], original cream wrappers printed in black. First paperback edition. First published by Chapman and Hall earlier in 1885 in three volumes, this is one of Griffiths' sensational detective stories in the style of Gaboriau. Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction 221. Topp, Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905 III, p. 445. Some soiling and spotting to wrappers, spine lean, a very good copy. (#170189).