Author: Leblanc, Maurice [Marie Emile. 1864 - 1941]. Ross, Patience - Translator
Title: WANTON VENUS.; Translated from the French by Miss Patience Ross
Description: New York: The Macaulay Company, 1935. 1st US edition (Hubin I, p. 490). Original publisher's black cloth binding with lavender stamping. Pale green dust jacket printed in white, orange & black. 246 pp. Crown 8vo. VG (slight lean/age-toning/poi to front paste-down)/Good (wear & chipping/price clipped/a po has applied a cloth backing to the jacket). Leblanc "was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French counterpart to Arthur Conan Doyle's creation Sherlock Holmes."The first Arsène Lupin story appeared in a series of short stories published in 1905. Leblanc continued to write Lupin novels throughout his career; here offered one of Lupin's scarcer titles, at the time of cataloguing we see no other copies of this US edition [in jacket] on offer.

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