The Doctor His Wife and the Clock
London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895.
Price: $500.00
Softcover. First edition. 16mo. Pale brown wrappers with front cover design by Aubrey Beardsley, repeated on a preliminary leaf. Small tear at the bottom of the spine, very good or better. The cover art was adapted from Beardsley's poster to advertise T. Fisher Unwin's Children's Books. *MSL 75B*.
Item #463614
Anna Katharine Green
birth name: Anna Katharine Green
born: 11/11/1846
died: 4/11/1935
Biography
Brooklyn-born "mother of the detective story" who created, introduced or popularized many standard genre devices such as the crime-scene map, deductions-list, and interlineation of newspaper headlines.more