Eugéne Vidocq. Soldier, Thief, Spy, Detective. A Romance founded on facts
by Donovan, Dick
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Hutchinson, no date). Hutchinson's Colonial Library edition. 8vo; original red cloth, with gilt lettering to spine and upper board; bookplate of J. Willis Dixon to front free endpaper; pp. vi + 345; some plates. Cover somewhat worn and sunned; endpapers rather browned; some foxing and occasional trace of soiling; binding slack, with some gatherings pulled. Fair condition, with the bookplate of a member of the famous Sheffield silver family. François Eugéne Vidocq, head of the Criminal Investigation Department in Paris, published his memoirs in 1828, and is generally recognised as the prototype of Edgar Allan Poe's fictional sleuth Auguste Dupin, who brought the detective genre to English fiction. .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4110
- Title
- Eugéne Vidocq. Soldier, Thief, Spy, Detective. A Romance founded on facts
- Author
- Donovan, Dick
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Hutchinson, no date)
- Keywords
- François Eugéne Vidocq. True Crime. Detective Fiction. Paris. Historical Novels Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
All books offered subject to availability. Returns are accepted where we have erred materially in our description of goods.
About the Seller
Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Biblio member since 2018
Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
Christison Rare Books operates as a mail order business, based in Port Elizabeth. We are members of IOBA and SABDA. Whereas we stock thousands of books on a wide variety of subjects, our focus has always been on SE Africa - its peoples, wildlife and history. The store is managed by Lindsay Christison. Although we do not run an open book shop, prospective customers who would like to examine items described in our on-line list of stock are welcome to make an appointment.
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- Fair
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