An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay
London: Grant Richards, 1897.
Price: $750.00
Hardcover. First edition. Corners slightly bumped and endpapers a little browned, some internal cracks at the hinges but still tight, a handsome, else near fine copy of this important collection of short stories featuring Colonel Clay, "the first important rogue in short crime fiction who is the hero, not a subsidiary character, villain or anti-hero" (Steinbrunner and Penzler, *Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection*). *Queen's Quorum*.
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