Author: WILKINS, W.A.
Title: The Cleverdale Mystery; or, the machine and its wheels.
Description: NY, Fords, Howard & Hulbert 1882. Octavo publisher's illustrated brown cloth blocked in black and gilt; part of the back fly torn away but still a remarkably good copy. ¶ First (only?) edition of this melodramatic thriller of politics, murder and dastardly deeds set in the sub-Adirondack playground of Lake George. Wilkins, editor of the local Whitehall Times, also published a play of this in the same year.
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers detective mystery c19th America
Title: The Cleverdale Mystery; or, the machine and its wheels.
Description: NY, Fords, Howard & Hulbert 1882. Octavo publisher's illustrated brown cloth blocked in black and gilt; part of the back fly torn away but still a remarkably good copy. ¶ First (only?) edition of this melodramatic thriller of politics, murder and dastardly deeds set in the sub-Adirondack playground of Lake George. Wilkins, editor of the local Whitehall Times, also published a play of this in the same year.
Keywords: literature fiction thrillers detective mystery c19th America
Price: AUD 75.00 = appr. US$ 51.89 Seller: Richard Neylon, Bookseller
- Book number: 8401
- Book number: 8401