Guilty Bonds

by William Le Queux

$30 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

New York: R. F. Fenno & Company, 1895 . First American Edition. Octavo 19cm . Blue cloth stamped in grey; plain endpapers; 307pp. Straight but rubbed and loosened: Good or better. First American printing of Le Queux's first novel. A journalist and sometime Secret Service agent, Le Queux has some claim to be the first writer of spy fiction Keating, Whodunit? p.195 . HUBIN p.252.

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