Memoirs of Arsène Lupin

New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good-. (c.1925). First American Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket, but encased in a nice-looking facsimile reproduction of the original first edition jacket; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [light wear to extremities, age-toning to edges of text block, upper corners bumped, spine cloth a bit faded; ex-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Library, so marked by two small rubber stamps on the front endpaper]. (B&W frontispiece) The 13th Arsène Lupin book, featuring the gentleman thief and master of disguise. In this novel, originally published in France in 1924 as "La Comtesse de Cagliostro," relates the story of (truncated) Lupin's first adventure (and the great love of his life), a "frightful duel of love and hate which brought a boy of twenty [Lupin, presented here, as so often, under a pseudonym, "Ralph d'Andresy"] to grips with Cagliostro's daughter." (The Preface indicates that the telling of the story had had to wait more than twenty-five years, at Lupin's insistence, because he had "one or two little matters yet to be settled between the Countess of Cagliostro and me." It's interesting to note that this book once belonged to the M-G-M Library; M-G-M did make a couple of Arsène Lupin movies (in 1932 and 1938), but neither one seems to have been directly based on any of the Leblanc books. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, which has not been factored in to our pricing. . (Inventory #: 29599)