Ace High the 'Frisco Detective or, The Girl Sport's Double Game. A Story of the Sierra & the Golden Gate City
Hardcover
1948 · San Francisco
by Tripp, C. E.
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1948 Book. Illus. by Dean, Mallette. Fine. Hardcover. One of 500 copies printed by the Grabhorn Press. Reprinted from Beadle's Half-Dime Library (Number 814), February 28, 1893. Quarto. Pp. [8], 56. Title, colophon and 8 text engravings in red and black by Mallette Dean. Red cloth-backed decorative boards, paper spine label. Some light offsetting to endpapers, else a very fine and bright copy. An amusing tale, one of the few Beadle's "Half-Dime Library" novels set in California. One of the Fifty Books of the Year. (truncated)