
The lady and The burglar: A Fantastic Romance By Edgar Turner Author of “The Girl with Feet of Clay”.
by TURNER (Edgar)
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Frontispiece by Oscar Wilson. London, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, New York and Melbourne, N.D. [1904]. Advertisement leaf, blank on verso, precedes half-title; half-tone frontispiece with tissue guard; pp.294; bright violet buckram, ruled and blocked white, lettered gilt, on front cover and spine, elaborately blocked blind on front cover; ruled blind on spine. Spine a trifle dulled and faded and with vertical wrinkle near foot; small closed tear to fore-margin of half-title; otherwise a virtually fine copy. A humorous, but very readable novel of burglary, imprisonment, and the subsequent attempts of the thieves to recover a box of stolen jewels from the place where they had buried it, which in the mean time has been built-over and become the site of a non-conformist chapel. According to the English Catalogue of books this title was published in May, 1904. COPAC records only three copies, to all of which it assigns the date [1905] this being presumably the point at which the publishers got around to sending the deposit copies. Hubin, p.410, giving the same date as ourselves.
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- Title
- The lady and The burglar: A Fantastic Romance By Edgar Turner Author of “The Girl with Feet of Clay”.
- Author
- TURNER (Edgar)
- Book condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date published
- 1904
- Bookseller catalogs
- Twentieth Century Detective Fiction;
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