THE FILIGREE BALL.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1903). 1903.
1st Edition. Hardcover. THE FILIGREE BALL. Green, Anna Katherine. (Anna Katherine Green Rohlfs). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, (1903). First Edition, first state of this superbly crafted mystery by the author of the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, The Leavenworth Case, one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and considered the 'Mother' of the detective novel. A very good or better bright, fresh copy in green decorated cloth, gilt titles to the spine, black and white frontis by C.M. Relyea. 8vo. 418 pp. + 22 pp. of adverts. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime. Pronzini & Muller, 1001 Midnights. $150.00.
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