Eustace robert eustace robert barton (4 Ergebnisse)

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG. New Edition. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & a little creased, some toning & spotting); pp. 224. A very good copy.

Soft Cover. Zustand: VG. First Thus. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & a little creased, some marks, gutter separation at p. 80/81); pp. 244, [4 (pubs. advts.)]. A very good copy.

7th impression. 'Cheap War Edition'. The only one of Sayers's twelve major crime novels not to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, her most famous detective character. However, the forensic analyst Sir James Lubbock, who appears or is mentioned in several of the Wimsey novels, also appears in The Documents in the Case. An epistolary novel, told primarily in the form of letters between some of the characters, using the multiple narrative technique associated with Modernist novelists of the period. This collection of documentshence the novel's titleis explained as a dossier of evidence collected by the victim's son as part of his campaign to obtain justice for his father. Pp.174, pages browned, owner's details to front free endpaper and final page. Blue cloth, dustwrapper spotted with edge tears and small losses to top and tail of spine but is in a removable clear protective wrap. G/G.…

FIRST EDITION. Half title, front., plates, 8pp cata. Partially uncut in orig. royal blue cloth, bevelled boards, lettered in gilt, spine lettered & blocked in gilt; extremities sl. rubbed. Ink gift inscription: 'J.A. Francis with best wishes from K.M. Hawksley. Xmas 1903' on leading pastedown. A nice copy. A collection of six short stories about 'professional exposer of ghosts', John Bell, covering the cases in which he cleverly exposes the truth of seemingly supernatural situations. Titles include: 'The Mystery of the Circular Chamber', 'The Warder of the Door', 'The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel' 'The Eight-Mile Lock', 'How Siva Spoke', and 'To Prove an Alibi'. Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, 1844-1914, was a prolific author of girl's stories and sensation novels. She was also an early pioneer of Young Adult literature, and is credited with creating brilliantly cunning and murderous female villains. Born in Ireland, she lived much of her life in London and wrote more than 280 titles during the course of her career. She often collaborated with other popular authors as she does here with Eustace Robert Barton. Barton, 1869-1943, was a medical doctor who wrote crime and mystery stories with scientific or medical themes; he co-authored 11 novels with Meade, of which this is the second, the first was The Arrest of Captain Vandaleur: How Miss Cusack Discovered His Trick in 1894.…