MORAIN, Alfred. The Underworld of Paris
MORAIN, Alfred. The Underworld of Paris. Secrets of the Sûreté. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1931. Large 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket wonderfully designed by Philip Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the gilt to cloth a little dulled, but the cloth clean with small nibble to front joint fold. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout. With various photographic plates throughout. The dust jacket complete, unpriced, some small nicks and tiny chips, and just very slightly off-centre. A sharp copy overall.
A thorough police narration depicting the inside story of one of the world’s most famous police organisations, the Sûreté, dubbed ‘the Scotland Yard of France’, as told by its head. ‘Such an authentic collection of unscrupulousness, shrewdness, sudden death, chilling and mysterious action has not appeared in America since Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue”’. Morain remains one of France’s finest lawmen and served as the head of the Sûreté between 1924 and 1927. In his career, he was involved in various international cases, including the apprehension of the Bonnot Gang, the capture of Jeanne Weber, the arrest and conviction of notorious serial killer, Henri Désiré Landru, and perhaps most notably, the arrest and conviction by firing squad of the classic femme fatale, Mata Hari, now dubiously convicted Dutch exotic dancer and supposed German spy. Morain received much acclaim during and after his career, and the true crime and detective fiction reader might well salivate upon this autobiography. Scarce.
MORAIN, Alfred. The Underworld of Paris. Secrets of the Sûreté. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1931. Large 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket wonderfully designed by Philip Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the gilt to cloth a little dulled, but the cloth clean with small nibble to front joint fold. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout. With various photographic plates throughout. The dust jacket complete, unpriced, some small nicks and tiny chips, and just very slightly off-centre. A sharp copy overall.
A thorough police narration depicting the inside story of one of the world’s most famous police organisations, the Sûreté, dubbed ‘the Scotland Yard of France’, as told by its head. ‘Such an authentic collection of unscrupulousness, shrewdness, sudden death, chilling and mysterious action has not appeared in America since Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue”’. Morain remains one of France’s finest lawmen and served as the head of the Sûreté between 1924 and 1927. In his career, he was involved in various international cases, including the apprehension of the Bonnot Gang, the capture of Jeanne Weber, the arrest and conviction of notorious serial killer, Henri Désiré Landru, and perhaps most notably, the arrest and conviction by firing squad of the classic femme fatale, Mata Hari, now dubiously convicted Dutch exotic dancer and supposed German spy. Morain received much acclaim during and after his career, and the true crime and detective fiction reader might well salivate upon this autobiography. Scarce.
MORAIN, Alfred. The Underworld of Paris. Secrets of the Sûreté. New York: E. P. Dutton. 1931. Large 8vo. First American edition. Publisher’s red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket wonderfully designed by Philip Youngman Carter. A very good copy, the gilt to cloth a little dulled, but the cloth clean with small nibble to front joint fold. The binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine throughout. With various photographic plates throughout. The dust jacket complete, unpriced, some small nicks and tiny chips, and just very slightly off-centre. A sharp copy overall.
A thorough police narration depicting the inside story of one of the world’s most famous police organisations, the Sûreté, dubbed ‘the Scotland Yard of France’, as told by its head. ‘Such an authentic collection of unscrupulousness, shrewdness, sudden death, chilling and mysterious action has not appeared in America since Poe’s “Murders in the Rue Morgue”’. Morain remains one of France’s finest lawmen and served as the head of the Sûreté between 1924 and 1927. In his career, he was involved in various international cases, including the apprehension of the Bonnot Gang, the capture of Jeanne Weber, the arrest and conviction of notorious serial killer, Henri Désiré Landru, and perhaps most notably, the arrest and conviction by firing squad of the classic femme fatale, Mata Hari, now dubiously convicted Dutch exotic dancer and supposed German spy. Morain received much acclaim during and after his career, and the true crime and detective fiction reader might well salivate upon this autobiography. Scarce.