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Publicado por Ward, London, New York, and Melbourne, 1892
Librería: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, Estados Unidos de America
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).
Publicado por Ward, Lock & Co., London
Librería: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, Nueva Zelanda
Decorative Cloth. Condición: Fair. Estado de la sobrecubierta: No Dust Jacket. No date (1890's) . 354 pages. Brown cloth covers with gilt, black. And white illustrations on front board and on spine. Title page and endpapers heavily foxed. Page edges browned. Front free endpaper cut out. Moderate water damage and bubbling to cloth on rear board. Some dampstains to rear endpaper. Pencil notes on rear free endpaper. 1/4" fryaying to cloth at corner of front board. 1/4" fraying to cloth at tail of rear joint. ; 12mo.
Publicado por Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited, 1894
Librería: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, Reino Unido
Libro Original o primera edición
Decorative Cloth. Condición: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Green cloth carrying image of pistol and handcuffs on a hillside beneath title lettered in red. Hands holding a camera on spine, the edges of which are heavily rubbed without loss. The covers are discoloured but all legible except 'Ward Lock' hard to distinguish. The book is cocked, and internally the end papers are darkened and brittle with a 1" chip to ffep. The string that holds the text block is holding but loose. Occasional foxing, smudges to text. 312pp. Lynch is the male pseudonym for an early American female crimewriter. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por R.R. Donnelley & Sons, Publishers, Chicago, 1885
Librería: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Decorative Cloth. Condición: Very Good (Minus). No Jacket. Reprint Edition. Lynch wrote under a male pseudonym, and is sometimes credited as one of the first women to earn her living as a mystery writer. But "Emma Murdoch Van Deventer" may not have existed either; presumed to be an American, but little or no reliable biographical data seems to be available. First published in 1882 [Hubin, p. 264]. This is a Very Good (Minus) copy of a reprinted edition from three years later. Purple cloth binding, now more of a dark brown. Decoratively stamped in black as "A Startling New Detective Story" with silver titling and decoration on the spine. Clean text; 557 pages, with a one-page advert in the rear. Many illustrations - frontis and 46 others within. Contemporary (1898) gift inscription on the FFEP, with a second signature on the following endpaper presumed to be the object of the gift. Publisher's cheap paper stock is toned but still quite readable. Mildly bumped; rubbing to head and foot now a light fray; hinges starting but keeping nicely. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Publicado por Ward, Lock & Co, London, 1896
Librería: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Early reprint (first by this publisher?), published originally by Laird in 1896. Octavo. Quarter red cloth with chromolithographed illustrated paper over boards. Contemporary bookseller's embossed stamp on front fly, early owner name, wear at the extremities of the boards, near very good.
Publicado por Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, London/New York/Melbourne, 1897
Librería: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, Estados Unidos de America
Miembro de asociación: IOBA
Original o primera edición
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. First UK Edition. London/New York/Melbourne: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1897. Written under a male pseudonym by one of the first woman authors to earn her living as a mystery writer."Emma Murdoch Van Deventer" may not have existed either. Possibly an American, where her books were first published, but little or no biographical data seems to be available. This is a Very Good copy of the First English Edition. There is no publication date, but Hubin (264) indicates that it was first published in the US in 1896, followed a year later in England. Marbled paper-covered boards, with red leather tips and spine; gilt titling on the spine. Clean text; vii, 319 pages; lacking the adverts often seen. Marbled endpapers and page-ends. A sound copy that is rubbed at the margins. First UK Edition. Quarter-Bound. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Publicado por Ward, Lock & Co., Limited [1897], London, 1897
Original o primera edición
Cloth. Condición: Very Good. None Ilustrador. First edition. The first edition of this uncommon murder mystery written by Emma Murdock Van Deventer. The first edition of this uncommon work.A thrilling and twisting murder mystery, in which a beloved teacher is found murdered.By Emma Murdock Van Deventer, written under the pne-named Lawrence L. Lynch. Deventer was an American author of mystery novels, including 'The Diamond Coterie', 'A Slender Clue', 'A Sealed Verdict', and more.Undated, dated from Jisc from a copy held at the British Library.Eight pages of adverts to the rear. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, smart. Light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some minor marks to the boards and spine. Light rubbing to the joints. Front hinge is starting but firm. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with some scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Very Good. book.