Buy this book on-line PEROWNE,BARRY: : RAFFLES REVISITED: NEW ADVENTURES OF A FAMOUS GENTLEMAN CROOKLONDON.HAMISH HAMILTON,1975. ISBN 0241891604.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, clean,glossy laminated,5 colour-block (black,grey,yellow,red+white) pictorial illustrated dw/dj with minimal shelf-wear and negligible creases to edges - 2 tiny, tiny closed tears/nicks to bottom,rear edge of dw/dj's inner flap - no other nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges lightly aged but remarkably clean,contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog-ear creases to pages' corners. Generally clean,plain blue-green paper-covered bds with bright,crisp,stamped silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and b/w illustrated eps.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,1-311pp includes half-title+title pages,a b/w line illustrated frntis,14 chapters/cases,b/w line illustrated chapter head-pieces and b/w illustrations throughout the book,all by Richard Rosenblum.
A. J.Raffles, the gentleman cracksman who lived in Albany,Picadilly,and,immaculate in top hat and tails,burgled his way into the hearts of Edwardian readers,last appeared in a book by his original creator,E.W. Hornung,in 1909.
Now Barry Perowne has brought him back to life in a series of new adventures,still in the Edwardian world of hansom cabs,
pea-soup fogs and house-party cricketing weekends.Raffles and his hero-worshipping companion,Bunny Manders,are up to their old tricks as ingeniously as ever.Their activities range from stealing a mummy case (with Raffles inside it) from a Kensington bank to an intrigue affecting a state visit by the Kaiser to Queen Victoria.Most remarkable of all is a cricket match in Devon between the warders of Dartmoor Prison and a very mixed team indeed,involuntarily captained by Raffles himself.Their bats were the only things
about them not bent; fortunately the prison governor kept his eye on the ball.
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