PHILO GUBB CORRESPONDENCE-SCHOOL DETECTIVE. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii [viii] [1-2] 3-352 [353] [354: printer's imprint] [355-356: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], twenty inserted plates with illustrations by Rea Irvin, publisher's pictorial yellow cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First edition. The adventures of a correspondence school detective who hangs wallpaper when not solving crimes. Queen's Quorum 61. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 15. Hubin (1994), p. 127. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 B-1356. 1918 Christmas gift inscription on the blank recto of the frontispiece; small bookplate on the front paste-down. Spine lean, cloth a bit dust soiled, top edge of text block dusty, inner rear hinge a trifle weak (repairable), a good or better copy. (#173947).
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"Published September 1918" on copyright page.