My Experiences at Scotland Yard by Thomson, Basil - 1923

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New York: Doubleday, Page And Company. 1923 Title And Copyright Pages, Ex Lib Stamp On Inside Front Cover, Heavy Tape Repaired Split There, Pencil Name On Ffep, Lib Pocket Remnant Rear Inside Cover, Ink Number Above That, Title Page With Ink Number And Fain Water Stasin Along Foredge Of Most Of The Page, No Other Stains Or Library Marks, Grey Cloth Boards Incised In Dark Blue With Title As Well On Cover And Spine In Dark Blue . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1923.

Doubleday Page and Company, 1923. first edition. hardcover. good: age worn boards and spine, hinge cracking, binding intact, text clean, mild toning and foxing to endpapers and title page./no DJ. 8vo 359pp. memoirs of detective and head of CID during WWI in Great Britain, including his experiences hunting spies (real and perceived) during and after the war. #01004.

DOUBLEDAY PAGE & CO. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. No Dust Jacket Reading copy only. Endpage missing. Nearly disbound.

New York: A. L. Burt Company. Very Good+. 1923. Reprint. Hardcover. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. The lettering on the spine has dulled. The text pages are mostly clean and bright. There is a previous owner's inked name on the front pastedown page. "After three years at the Native Lands Office in Suva, Thomson resigned from colonial service, and returned to England in 1893, due in no small part to the deteriorating health of his wife. There he embarked on a career as a writer, drawing on his experiences in the South Sea Islands to produce South Sea Yarns (1894; written in Fiji) , The Diversions of a Prime Minister (1894, about his government work in Tonga) , and The Indiscretions of Lady Asenath (1898). Basil Thomson used his Fijian assistants to organise the first ever done census of Fijian… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.