Robinson (B. Fletcher) and J. Malcolm Fraser. The Trial of the Dead.
£150
The strange experience of Dr. Robert Harland
London, Ward, Lock, 1904.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth with inset illustration to upper cover.
Seven thrilling tales by Fletcher & Fraser, the former who had inspired in large part Conan Doyle with the idea for The Hound of the Baskervilles.
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Plates; some foxing, heavy in places, slight fraying/creasing to frontispiece; cloth with minor rubbing to extremities, but otherwise very good.
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