Toppleton's Client, or A Spirit in Exile
Charles L. Webster & Company, 1893. First Edition. Hardcover. Item #264133
ISBN: B002K9OGKE
269 pages. BAL 714. A pre-eminent legal firm gets far more than it bargained for when it hires the son of its late senior partner, Hopkins Toppleton, Sr., simply to retain the illustrious family name on the company masthead. A humerous detective classic. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper: 'To R. E. Block, Esq., With the kindest wishes of John Kendrick Bangs, March 8, 1894.' First edition (first printing). A very good copy in blue cloth with gilt lettering and decorations on front cover and spine. Gilt is worn on cover and spine. Edge and corner wear. Spine edges frayed. Covers mildly soiled. White endpapers. No dust jacket.
Price: $200.00