GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES FROM VOLTAIRE TO POE

by Joseph Lewis French

$45 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh The Dial Press, 1924. Small octavo, pp. 1-10 1-3 4-317 318: blank , original maroon cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. First edition. With a foreword by the editor. Anthology of five pieces showing the detective motif in fiction: one is a short story by Poe, the other four are excerpts from novels, including The Devil's Disciple, a supernatural segment from Balzac's MELMOTH

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