THE BLACKMAILERS by Gaboriau, Emile - 1909

Bath: Lythway Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine. Large print edition. Translated by Ernest Tristan. Fine in pictorial boards.

The Detective Story Club , for William Collins. Decorative Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. Crime Novel. A Paris Banker is Burgled of 350,000 Francs in Banknotes. Undated Edition, probably circa 1920s. Black cloth cover with Gilt Masked Robber and Handcuffs on front. Gilt Lettering on front and dull gilt lettering on spine. 250 Pages, 140g, 6 1/4" Tall. 2 very small closed tears at top corners of spine ( 1/4" long ) and a little spatter of white paint on front (see photo). Pages a little age darkened, mainly marginal. Old price on title page, no other inscriptions. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall

New York: Brentano's, circa [1900].. [1900].. Good. - Small octavo, maroon cloth titled in blind on the front cover with profuse decorations in blind on the front cover & spine. The covers are rubbed & bumped with light staining to the top edge of the front cover. The spine is faded & rubbed with its titling completely faded. Half-title, title & 277 pages. There is a chip out of the front edge of the 1st page of the text. The front edges of 2 pages are roughed & 2 are stained. There is very light staining to the botttom edges of the pages. Good. <p>Also known as "File No. 113".

Liskeard, Cornwall: Treovis Press, 1982. Yellow paper covers, ynpaginated but contains 6 poems. No.33 of 200 copies. !st fep has the inscription 'To Adrian and Celia with thanks & best wishes Bill Scammell 23.4.82' from the library of the late poet Adrian Mitchell. Externally a little dusty, slightl crease across top edge. Inside, clean tight and vg.. SIGNED. 1st Limied and Numbered Edition. Paper Covers. Good+.

London: Greening and Co, 1907. Translated Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 277 pages. Subjects: Fiction. 20th century fiction. Crime and mystery fiction. Gaboriau, Emile.