Secrets of a Private Enquiry Office. Being Tales Weird and Tales Ghostly, Tales Humorous and Tales Pathetic, Tales Exciting and Tales Curious

by Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett

$1,000 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891. Detective fiction FIRST EDITION. Octavo 19 x 14cm , pp.256. Publisher's red cloth to bevelled boards with gilt titles to upper and spine. 'Routledge's Hearth and Home Library' blocked in blind to upper. Ruling in blind to upper, spine, and lower. Top edge gilt. Toning and spotting to edges and leaves with a few dog-eared corners. Guttering is split in a few places such as pages 48-49, pages 64-65, and pages 144-145.

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