Chronicles of Martin Hewitt

by Arthur Morrison

$165 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

New York: Appletons, 1896. Detective stories FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo 18 x 13cm , pp.267; 1 , blank; 14, ads. Bound in publisher's decorated blue cloth boards, stamped in gilt and colours. Contents clean and fresh, no ink names, binding lightly rubbed at joints. An excellent example. 'The first important English writer of detective fiction after Conan Doyle was Arthur Morrison' Haycraft . Item #75267 Eric Quayle;

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