New York: Dodd Mead Company, 1897. First Edition. First printing Near fine in blue cloth covered boards with gilt and black text on the spine with red and black decorations on the front board with gilt text stamping with the top edge of the text block gilt. There is a prior owner's name on the first free end paper Without a dust jacket. A mystery by this bibliographer, historian and novelist. 200 pages of text with a frontispiece illustration. First edition first issue with the title page omitting the word "train" in the title and with the last line of page 164 reading "-talk in the presence of a lady!" This title first appeared in magazine form in August 1896 in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. A very handsome, clean and tight copy. (BAL 6213;

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Bookseller: Town's End Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: TB19281
Title: The Great K & A Robbery
Author: Ford, Paul Leicester
Book Condition: Used
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Dodd Mead Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1897

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