THE VEILED PRISONER ... Translated

by Hannaford Bennett by Gaston Leroux

$325 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

London: Mills & Boon, Limited, 1923 . Octavo, pp. 1-8 9-288 + 16-page undated publishers catalogue inserted at rear, original green cloth, front and rear panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First edition in English. Science fiction novel of adventure and intrigue set in the first world war and featuring a super-submarine commanded by a mysterious person obviously inspired by Verne's Captain Nemo

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