Buy this book on-line HILL, HEADON (pseud Frances Edward Grainger): : MILLIONS OF MISCHIEFLONDON.WARD,LOCK & CO.,LTD.,1905. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,8vo HB,no dw/djmas issued(?),1st edn.
VG.Neat,blue ink owner name,to verso of b/w frntis.Publisher's original dark blue cloth boards with red+green art-nouveau style,blocked coloured decoration and gilt
lettering to upper board,design and colouring repeated to spine/backstrip. Slight oxidisation of colouring of design to spine/backstrip,design+lettering brighter,clearer to upper board.Corners bumped and rubbed - as usual/normal for book's age (1905).Some adhesive residue of a previous contemporary adhesive,paper circulating library (removed) label to bottom edge of upper board - no other library marks to book.Rear board lightly grubbed/marked.Top edge darkened (coloured?),fore-edge uncoloured,but heavily aged/toned - as usual/normal;
contents generally bright,tight and clean
with minimal foxing/spotting or grubbing.
Off-white endpapers slightly aged and minimally marked; rear hinge cracked.UK, 8vo HB,1st edn,6-310pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,a prologue,39 chapters,4 b/w plates/illus - includes frntis; plus [unpaginated] half-title, tissue-guarded b/w frntis,title page and 2pp publisher's adverts to rear.
Uncommon,many of this author's works elusive,if not scarce.
Born 1857,died 1929,Victorian detective
fiction writer,of many Scotland Yard or police procedural novels,believed to be influenced by Arthur Conan Doyle.
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