A Slender Clue : Or, The Mystery of Mardi-Graz : A Detective Story
1891, First Edition. Port Sunlight, near Birkenhead : Lever Brothers, Ltd. Good copy in contemporary gilt-blocked burgundy cloth over bevelled boards, now lightly scuffed and dust-dulled. Panel edges and endbands somewhat rubbed. Contemporary reader inscription (1896) to front free endpaper. Leaves age-toned. Preliminary and final leaves foxed; edges similarly foxed, reaching into the margins. Binding cracked from the tail between pp. 26 and 27, with the text block otherwise sound; a well-preserved example overall. Item #468785
Physical description; iv, 348 pages ; 18 cm. Notes; Date conjectural. Published under the pseudonym Lawrence L. Lynch. Subjects; Detective and mystery fiction. 19th century.
Price: €125.00