Nov 10, 2015 - Sale 2397

Sale 2397 - Lot 238

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
FIRST FEMALE FELON SHORT STORY SERIES MEADE, L.T. The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings. 8vo, publisher's pictorial gilt-stamped navy cloth over beveled boards, spine tips bumped, few small blemishes; endpapers toned, else fine internally; custom cloth drop-back box. London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1899

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first edition. A handsome, square copy of this scarce work. A "historic volume [which] contains the first series of stories about a female criminal." - Steinbrunner and Penzler (eds), Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 284. Glover and Greene, Victorian Detective Fiction, p. 88; Queens Quorum 27.