"There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favourite book."
— Marcel Proust
Chronicles of Martin Hewitt.
New York: Appletons, 1896. [Detective stories] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.267; [1], blank; [14, ads. Bound in publisher's decorated blue cloth boards, stamped in gilt and colours. Contents clean and fresh, no ink names, binding lightly rubbed at joints. An excellent example. 'The first important English writer of detective fiction after Conan Doyle was Arthur Morrison' (Haycraft). Item #75267
Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction (1972). Howard Haycraft; Murder for Pleasure (1972), Graham Greene & Dorothy Glover; Victorian Detective Fiction (1966).
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