Sunday, March 2, 2014

1875 CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE BY ALLAN PINKERTON - SIGNED FIRST EDITION

1875
SIGNED/INSCRIBED/FIRST EDITION

CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE
AND OTHER STORIES
BY ALLAN PINKERTON

Publisher:
Chicago: W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co., 1875.

Features:
• First Edition - title page and copyright dates match, no additional printings listed, publisher's seal
• measures about 7.5'' x 5.25''
• beautiful publisher's decorative cloth Victorian fine binding
• embossed gold gilt and black stamping
• coated yellow endpapers
• frontispiece
• illustrated with many full-page engraved plates

original tipped-in ad prospectus in place between endpapers - author has inscribed the book on the front free endpaper





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