The River Syndicate and Other Stories: The Pasha Club; The House Over the Way; Mrs. Porter's Paragon; The Asper Agency; The Colonel's Desk; Captain Black by Charles E. Carryl - 1899

New York, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1899. Early printing. Hardcover. Good. Sold as a reading copy only. One of the many imitators of Sherlock Holmes-type mysteries of the period. This copy does NOT have the excellent illustrated cloth cover of the first edition. Octavo, 7 3/4" tall, 297 pages + 4 black and white illustrations, marbled endpapers, gilt titles on decorative red leather. A fair hardcover first edition overall with leather back strip over spine detached and partly missing, front cover detached at hinge, leather rubbed at all corners. Internally very good with binding tight, paper clean and lightly yellowed excepting last two pages which are badly torn but all text present. Good reading copy only because of the hinge break or terrific candidate for rebinding because of the paper quality.