Jewel Mysteries I Have Known from a Dealer's Note Book - PEMBERTON, Max

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PEMBERTON, Max

Jewel Mysteries I Have Known from a Dealer's Note Book

London: Ward, Locke & Co. (no date -1894).

$300.00

First edition. Neat owner name of John Hare Powel (Commander of the Newport Artillery during the Civil War), scattered foxing to the text, and light edgewear, a sound, very good copy. Mystery tales about gems in exotic settings. According to Barzun and Taylor in A Catalogue of Crime, "the collection is worth its weight in total carats." Scarce.

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