Author old cap collier (1 Ergebnisse)
Weitere BilderOld Cap. Collier in Salt Lake City: or, "Piping the Mormon Conspirators. Old Cap. Collier Library. No. 426. March 5, 1892 [Dime Novel]
By the Author of "Old Cap Collier" [pseudonym for multiple house writers]
Verlag: Munro's Publishing House, New York
- Softcover
- Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, USAKen Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
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EUR 678,83
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Zustand: Good. First printing. 48pp. Text double column. Large wood engraving to front cover [p. 1, "Old Cap. Collier, Gripstick in Hand, Watched the Mormon Elder and His Five Fair Victims"]. 10 5/8 x 7 1/4". Printed wrappers, stapled. Age-toning, with some chipping to the extremities, and covers beginning to detach. Title page…lacking piece to fore-edge [text not affected]. Two stamps, one to top margin of p. 1 & bookseller stamp to p. 47, lower margin. This detective series numbered 822 issues, published by Munro from 9 April 1883 to 9 September 1899, starting at 10 cents an issue, though later dropping to 5 cents, as here. Cf. The Dime Novel Companion, p. 199. "In this volume, the disguise-master detective (Munroe [sic] Publishing House's most popular character in the 1890s) is assigned by the U.S. government to investigate a global human trafficking network that provides Mormons with new wives for their supposedly defunct harems. "As Old Cap Collier infiltrates the Mormon cabal and exposes the human trafficking scheme, he discovers a much broader conspiracy that involves massacre and political domination." - from "Danites, Damsels, and World Domination: Mormons in the Dime Novels" by Michael Austin (Sunstone) Rare Mormon fiction title. Not in Flake.
