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The Adventures of Romney Pringle

de Clifford Ashdown; R Austin Freeman

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Very Good Indeed
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London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1902. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 5". None. The impossibly scarce blue version of the first edition of Richard Austin Freeman's important work of detective fiction 'The Adventures of Romney Pringle'. A vanishingly scarce and important work of detective fiction. Queen originally believed only six copies of this work existed. However, subsequently a very few more copies have been discovered in private collections and institutional collections.Despite there being only a handful of copies, the book was issued in both blue and red cloth.Freeman's bibliographer David Chapman notes that the blue copies were handled by the author and for libraries. This, Chapman suggests, would give the blue cloth priority. So far Chapman has located twenty six copies including this one. The white vignette to the front board is faded slightly. R Austin Freeman was a celebrated author of detective fiction. He invented the inverted detective story, and created one of the first medico-legal forensic investigator Dr Thorndyke. With a frontispiece and three additional illustrations. With two pages of publisher's advertisements to the rear. Loosely inserted is a slip of paper advertising this book to have been from the collection of American Sherlockian, John Ruyle. These works are written under the pseudonym 'Clifford Ashdown'. The Romney Pringle stories were some of Freeman's first successful tales. They were written in collaboration with John James Pitcairn, a medical officer at Holloway Prison. The tales to this work were first issued in Australia under the pseudonym of Ralph J Jay, a year before their appearance in Cassell's Magazine. The Oxford companion to Crime describes Pringle as 'a literary agent who earns a living by swindling crooks out of their ill-gotten gains. A very scarce first edition anthology of this important work in the Crime Fiction cannon. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. Vignette to the front board is faded, as is common. Light shelfwear to the extremities of the work. Minor bumping to the extremities. Small tidemark to the front board. Front hinge is strained but firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Scattered spots, heavier to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed

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Librería
Rooke Books GB (GB)
Inventario del vendedor #
746L5
Título
The Adventures of Romney Pringle
Autor
Clifford Ashdown; R Austin Freeman
Ilustrador
None
Formato/Encuadernación
Cloth
Estado del libro
Usado - Very Good Indeed
Cantidad disponible
1
Edición
First edition
Encuadernación
Tapa dura
Editorial
Ward, Lock and Co
Lugar de publicación
London
Fecha de publicación
1902
Tamaño
8" by 5"
Palabras clave
Romney Pringle Thorndyke Clifford Ashdown Freeman Thorndyke

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Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Shelfwear
Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
Hinge
The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
Vignette
A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...

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