Stevens Dalton Illustrations (3 results)

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company. Very good condition-cover scuffed/No Dustjacket. 1912. 12mo., 424 pp. . Very good condition-cover scuffed/No Dustjacket. Black & White Illustrations (illustrator).

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); dark green cloth, with titles stamped in white, and large pictorial label mounted to front cover; [viii],287,[1]pp, with frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations by Dalton Stevens. Contemporary bookplate mounted to front pastedown, gentle sunning to spine, with light wear to extremities, and some softening to spine ends, and mild surface wear to pictorial label; contens clean, with hinges sound; Very Good, lacking the rare dustjacket. The fifth novel in Leblanc's series featuring Arsène Lupin, French gentleman burglar and master of disguise, first serialized in Le Journal in 1912 as Le Bouchon de Cristal. Though now more than a century removed from his creation, the exploits of Leblanc's signature character are the basis for the French Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy.HUBIN, p.249. …

First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); black cloth, with titles stamped in orange on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [18], 361, [5]pp; illus. Mild wear to lower board edges, crown gently nudged, with faint offsetting from jacket flaps onto endpapers; Very Good+ sound copy. Dustjacket (priced $1.35 at mid-spine) is gently spine-sunned and edgeworn, with a few small chips at crown (none affecting lettering), numerous short tears with attendant creases, and a few small rubbed spots to rear panel; a Very Good, substantially complete example. A group of loosely connected stories set in the New York underworld. Basis for Paul Scardon's 1920 silent picture starring Pinna Nesbit, William B. Davidson, and William Ingersoll. Scarce in dustjacket. OCLC finds 15 copies. Hubin, p.367.…