Checkmate.
London: Downey and Co, n.d. [1898].
Price: $450.00
About the item
Pictorial title page. iv, 416 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth stamped and decorated in gold. Bookplate of George E. Godwin Orton. Hinges cracked but holding, scuff to cloth on lower board. Good plus. For first edition: Sadleir 1371; Wolff 4008.
Item #321608
Scarce early reprint of Le Fanu’s pioneering detective novel, the first to use plastic surgery and dental records in criminal identification.
