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ADELER, MAX; JOHN COULSON KERNAHAN; ARTHUR MORRISON; JOHN LE BRETON Random Shots; Captain Shannon; Martin Hewitt Investigator; Miss Tudor
London, Various. 1900. Hard Cover. 4 late Victorian paperbacks bound together (without original covers) in dark green cloth: yellow endpapers: 1) Random Shots (1879) by Max Adeler [ie Charles Heber Clark. Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co. no date. Illustrated by Arthur B. Frost. 2) Captain Shannon (1897) by John Coulson Kernahan. Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co. no date. Illustrated by F. S. Wilson. 3) Martin Hewitt, Investigator (1894) by Arthur Morrison. Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co. no date. Illustrated by Sidney Paget. 4) Miss Tudor (1897) by John Le Breton [ie M. Harte Potts & T. Murray Ford]. Paperback: J. Macqueen, 1900. Condition: corners scuffed, endpapers marked, paper browned (especially in 4th title), good. A miscellany of titles: Random Shots is a series of comic stories; Captain Shannon is a political crime novel set in Ireland: Martin Hewitt Investigator is a collection of detective stories; and Miss Tudor (the first work by husband and wife team Potts and Ford) exposes the use of the casting couch in the theatrical world.
Offered for GBP 25.00 = appr. US$ 40.90 by: Richard Beaton - Book number: 52036
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