WYNDHAM, Horace. Crime on the Continent. London: Thornton Butterworth. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket. An about very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, with some light foxing to the textblock edges. The contents with light offsetting at endpapers and some mild scattered foxing, usually to plate facing, all plates present. The dust jacket priced 12/6 net to spine, several small nicks and chips, some tape repairs to verso, most notably at crown, but still a presentable copy.
Not just a modern fad after all. A collection of attractively written and carefully executed true crime tales with first-hand accounts and official reportage. Men and women feature; Countess Tarnowska, that strange Russian Delilah, who deliberately planned the murder of her paramour; Marie Lafarge, whose odd, haunting story still remains to baffle jurists; Adolph Hofrichter, a young Austrian lieutenant, who attempted to quicken promotion by poisoning his superiors; Henri de Tourville, a naturalised British subject who made a speciality of marrying rich women and then pushing them over precipices (blurb), among others. Quite uncommon.
WYNDHAM, Horace. Crime on the Continent. London: Thornton Butterworth. 1928. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s black cloth lettered in red to the spine and upper board, in the dust jacket. An about very good copy, the cloth clean and bright, the binding tight and square, with some light foxing to the textblock edges. The contents with light offsetting at endpapers and some mild scattered foxing, usually to plate facing, all plates present. The dust jacket priced 12/6 net to spine, several small nicks and chips, some tape repairs to verso, most notably at crown, but still a presentable copy.
Not just a modern fad after all. A collection of attractively written and carefully executed true crime tales with first-hand accounts and official reportage. Men and women feature; Countess Tarnowska, that strange Russian Delilah, who deliberately planned the murder of her paramour; Marie Lafarge, whose odd, haunting story still remains to baffle jurists; Adolph Hofrichter, a young Austrian lieutenant, who attempted to quicken promotion by poisoning his superiors; Henri de Tourville, a naturalised British subject who made a speciality of marrying rich women and then pushing them over precipices (blurb), among others. Quite uncommon.
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