Chicago: W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co., 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 22 woodcuts. 12mo, 287 pages, embossed purple cloth, trifling wear to tips of spine, which has its gilt titling intact over a sunned backstrip. Rare thus.

[Victorian Detective Fiction, 379; H-Q Cornerstone; not in Andrews, CHICAGO IN STORY]. Detectives Claude Melnotte, and Jules Imbert. "The second of the many Pinkerton volumes. "The patrons of the old Clifton House in Chicago will readily recall the occurrences related in 'Claude Melnotte,'... In some very minor details, a small ingredient of fiction has been introduced, but the accuracy of the story has not been perceptibly affected thereby -Preface." Tipped-in at the front endpapers is the publisher's advertisement leaf for the first two books in this series. Illustrated with 22 woodcuts.

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Bookseller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: DEMO014964I
Title: CLAUDE MELNOTTE AS A DETECTIVE, And Other Stories
Author: PINKERTON, Allan
Illustrator: 22 woodcuts
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: W. B. Keen, Cooke & Co.
Place of Publication: Chicago
Date Published: 1875
Keywords: chicago fiction, allan pinkerton, donnelley, detective fiction,

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Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.

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