IN THE FOG - WITH AN AUTOGRAPH LETTER TO HIS PUBLISHER, ROBERT H. RUSSELL

by Richard Harding Davis, Thomas Mitchell Peirce, F D.

$2,000 · Offered by Captain Ahab's Rare Books

First edition

New York: R.H. Russell, 1901. First Edition. Best-known mystery by the Philadelphia-born novelist and journalist, which contains three connected short stories in the style of Robert Louis Stevenson's New Arabian Nights 1882 . There's a double surprise ending Penzler & Steinbrunner, p.117 . A Queen's Quorum title, with distinguished provenance. Hubin, p.109; BAL 4537; Smith D-155. Item #5819

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