The Model Town and the Detectives: Byron as a Detective

New York: G. W. Dillingham Co. Publishers, [1904]. Reprint. Octavo (19cm); green cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in brown on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 288pp; black and white illustrations on glossy paper at frontispiece and throughout. Many illustrations missing, lightly spine-tanned, with shelf-soil, rubbing to cloth at spine ends and board edges, off-setting to endpapers, and annotations in red ink and pencil throughout the text; Good. Dustwrapper tanned with shelf-soil, detached completely at front flap fold and rear spine fold (all 3 sections are with item), 1.5" tear to front lower spine fold, tiny losses to spine (truncated) ends, and tiny tears and chips to extremities; Good. First published in 1876, this text includes "The Model Town and the Detectives", "Byron as a Detective", and "The Life of a Detective". [84650]. (Inventory #: 84650)