Author: BUTLER, Ellis Parker
Title: Philo Gubb, Correspondence School Detective
Description: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Mustard cloth with black lettering, rules and pictorial stamping. 353pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece, 19 full-page called-for plates. Very good. Mild binding wear, else tight and internally fine. Attractive first edition of the only hardbound appearance of this popular "Redbook Magazine" short story character, a down-to-earth Sherlock Holmes wannabee minus the brilliance. The delightful illustrations are by "New Yorker" staple and Eustace Tilley creator graphic artist Rea Irvin (1881-1972). Rather scarce. .

Keywords: Mystery & Detective


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