PHILO GUBB: Correspondence School Detective

by Ellis Parker Butler

$150 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 . First edition in book form of these popular comedic stories, featuring a simple midwestern man who learns detective work via a correspondence school course advertising: We can make you the equal of Sherlock Holmes in twelve lessons. Very good. Item #45798 Mr. Gubb dutifully practices the lessons of his correspondence school lesson #4: snooping in the opening story

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