Officer 666
by Currie, Baron W. & Augustin McHugh
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1912. This early mystery was made into at least three films (1914, 1916, and 1920). Barton Currie (1878-1962) was a journalist/editor and a bibliophile who specialized in Joseph Conrad; his co-author Augustin McHugh (1877-1928) is credited with adapting the book into a play than was produced by George M. Cohan in 1912. This is a Very Good (Plus) copy of the First Edition. Blue cloth binding, featuring an intimidating image of the officer , with billy, in lighter blue and tan; titling on spine and front cover in white. Clean text; 308 pages, with six pages of publisher's adverts in the rear. The artwork is spectacular. Fully illustrated endpapers (differing), a coloured frontispiece, with three others within. Light rub to the margins and the white lettering; very slight lean. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good (Plus)/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005635
- Title
- Officer 666
- Author
- Currie, Baron W. & Augustin McHugh
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good (Plus)
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- The H.K. Fly Company Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1912
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Bookseller catalogs
- Early Mysteries;
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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