Author: Gaboriau, Emile
Title: The Widow Lerouge
Description: Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gaboriau, Emile. THE WIDOW LEROUGE. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1873. This is the First American Edition & First English Language Edition of: L'affaire Lerouge, [Paris:1866]. Tall 8vo. 156pp. blind embossed brick coloured cloth, gilt stamped on the upper cover & spine. A very good or better copy of this unusually scarce Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Lecoq anticipated Sherlock Holmes by 20 years. - Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. Monsieur Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs, Les Vrais Mémoires de Vidocq, mixed fiction and fact. It may also have been influenced by the villainous Monsieur Lecoq, one of the main protagonists of Féval's Les Habits Noirs book series. .
Keywords: HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE, QUEEN'S QUORUM. ITSAMYSTERY
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Title: The Widow Lerouge
Description: Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1873. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gaboriau, Emile. THE WIDOW LEROUGE. Boston: Estes & Lauriat, 1873. This is the First American Edition & First English Language Edition of: L'affaire Lerouge, [Paris:1866]. Tall 8vo. 156pp. blind embossed brick coloured cloth, gilt stamped on the upper cover & spine. A very good or better copy of this unusually scarce Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Lecoq anticipated Sherlock Holmes by 20 years. - Gaboriau's first detective novel, introduced a young police officer named Monsieur Lecoq, who was the hero in three of Gaboriau's later detective novels. Monsieur Lecoq was based on a real-life thief turned police officer, Eugène François Vidocq (1775-1857), whose memoirs, Les Vrais Mémoires de Vidocq, mixed fiction and fact. It may also have been influenced by the villainous Monsieur Lecoq, one of the main protagonists of Féval's Les Habits Noirs book series. .
Keywords: HAYCRAFT-QUEEN CORNERSTONE, QUEEN'S QUORUM. ITSAMYSTERY
Price: US$ 1850.00 Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library
- Book number: 28532
- Book number: 28532
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