Dr E J Emile Joseph Dillon (1 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. DILLON, Emile Joseph. Leaves from Life. London: Dent. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher's file copy with hole punch 'file copy' to title page and dedication page, discreet stamp behind front flap. An otherwise bright copy, the dark blue cloth clean, the gilt bright, the binding tight and square. The contents clean throughout. The dust jacket priced 7s 6d net to front flap, some shallow chips around the spine head and tail, a few light marks and other, smaller chips and nicks, but a sharp copy. An uncommon and uncanny volume, written a year before the author's death and off the back of a lifetime of international travel, working primarily as reporter for The Daily Telegraph. Dillon was a master of classical, Oriental, and European language, travelling extensively and the volume is a compilation of "strange people in out-of-the-way corners of Europe and in her great capitals figure in episodes that are now thrilling, now weird, now farcical, but invariably entertaining". Stories include 'The Dead Hand', 'The Most Mysterious Robbery on Record', 'In Quest of a Bride', 'What befell a Lone Lady Traveller in the Eighties', monks, crooks, gypsies, Demi-mondaines, spies, and detectives. Not in Hubin. Scarce.…