SECRET SERVICE OR TALES OF THE LETTER-BAG BEING THE EXPERIENCES OF DETECTIVE FURAY AND OTHERS.

by P. H. Woodward, Formerly Chief of the U.S. Post-Office Detective Department by Woodward

$350 · Offered by L. W. Currey

London: Frederick Warne and Co., Bedford Street, Strand, n.d. 1894 . Octavo, pp. 1-9 10-128, publisher's colored pictorial wrappers. First printing of this edition and probably the first British edition . A collection of true crime stories selected from GUARDING THE MAILS; OR, THE SECRET SERVICE OF THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT, published in America in 1876 by Woodward 1833-1917; a prominent Connecticut banker . At

• Printing: first
• Binding: Wrappers

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