Greene Victorian Detective Fiction

Smart, Hawley; Griffiths, Major Arthur; Davis, Richard Harding; Marsh, Richard; and Greene, Graham and Hugh (eds): The Penguin Book of Victorian Villainies: The Great Tontine; The Rome Express; In the Fog; The Beetle, London Bloomsbury Books 1991 ; fester Einband / hard cover; Schutzumschlag / dust cover ISBN: 1 85471 011 7
1 85471 011 7 Fine

715pp - Four little-known but top-flight Victorian crime and detection stories: "The Great Tontine" by Hawley Smart, "The Rome Express" by Major Arthur Griffiths, "In the Fog" by Richard Harding Davis and "The Beetle" by Richard Marsh. Book is immaculate. DJ (now in protective sleeve) has some light creasing. <B>A large and heavy volume which may require additional shipping cost.</b> Reprint Fine - Laminated 5.5 x 9"; Reprint

[SW: Crime, Thriller, Fiction, Victoriana, Fraud, Murder, Politics, Horror, Detective, Hawley Smart, Major Arthur Griffiths, Richard Harding Davis, Richard Marsh, Mystery Thriller Detective Fiction]

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Hume, Fergus W. [1859 -1932]. THE MYSTERY OF THE HANSOM CAB. Signed. London Jarrolds & Sons, n.d. 1888 ; 1. Ed.

Rare Presentation Copy. Sm. 8vo., 230pp. Original publisher's illustrated light cream covers, titled and decorated in red at the spine. A very good tight copy [small chip at the spine crown]. Inscribed by the author on the half title: "To / Will J. Benners / With best wishes / Fergus Hume." Not the impossibly rare first edition but the 401st thousand of this amazingly popular best seller. An excellent example of this normally very fragile book. "Ranks as the most successful Detective Story of all time" - Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1960. In little more than a year, Handsom Cab Publishing, the first London publisher, issued more than 340,000 copies. The exceedingly rare original 1st edition was published by Kemp and Boyce of Melbourne. This is the Florence & Edward Kaye copy with their neat leather bookplate pasted on a panel of the chemise. Quarter red calf slipcase with 5 raised bands. [Likely acquired by the Kayes from The House of El Dieff in 1976] The Collector No.273, p43. Graham Greene and Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction [Appendix], (1966). Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. 1st Edition; 1st Edition

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Hume, Fergus W. [1859 -1932]. THE MYSTERY OF THE HANSOM CAB, London Hansom Cab Publishing Co. 1887 ; 1. Ed.

First UK edition [Second Edition overall] & earliest available impression - The Seventy-Fifth Thousand. [No copy has come to auction in over 25 years] Sm. 8vo., 230pp. Original publisher's illustrated light blue-grey covers, titled & decorated in black. A very good tight copy showing minimal wear; small lower corner chip, some light edgewear, etc. contents bright & fresh. An extraordinary example of this normally very fragile book. "Ranks as the most successful Detective Story of all time" - Everyman's Dictionary of Literary Biography, 1960. Although usually described as the first UK edition, is actually the second edition of which 340,000 copies were issued in little more than a year. The exceedingly rare original first edition was published by Kemp and Boyce of Melbourne in 1886 before the London Hansom Cab Publishing Co. printings. [Acquired from the House of El Dieff in 1976] The Collector No.273, p43. Graham Greene and Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction [Appendix], (1966). Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. 1st Edition; 1st Edition

[SW: Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone]

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Glover, Dorothy, and Graham Greene: Victorian Detective Fiction (Signed) A Catalogue of the Collection, London The Bodley Head 1966 ; Schutzumschlag / dust cover; sig.; 1. Ed.

Hardcover in dust jacket. 8vo. First printing. SIGNED on the rear limitation page by Graham Greene, Dorothy Glover, and John Carter, who wrote the introduction. Also credited is Eric Osborne, who did the bibliographic arranging. This copy number 312 of 500. Book and jacket are in Fine condition, with just a touch of sunning to green jacket and a faint patch of staining to right page edges. Not price-clipped. Printed on Strathmore mold-made paper. Endpapers reproduce drawings by Millais for a story called "Captain and Detective," which at the time of the book's publication was mysterious ("A free copy of this catalogue will be given to the first person who identifies the author and publication," states the rear jacket flap.) 149 pp. including an index of detectives, an index of illustrators, and an index of titles. In protective Mylar. Hardcover condition: Near Fine jacket condition: Near Fine

[SW: Victorian literature. Detective stories. Graham Greene.]

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