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Shelburne (Ontario)/Sauk City WI: The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. 1998. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. [both the book and jacket are in as-new condition, the book blemished only by the presence of the previous owner's initials plus date & place of purchase, in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap)]. (B&W illustrations) "Originally published in 1905, and never reprinted, The Chronicles of Addington Peace has become one of the rarest volumes of detective stories, much prized among collectors of the genre," and The Trail of the Dead "is a rousing Victorian mystery-adventure tale involving a mad professor who leaves a trail of murdered colleagues across the European continent. [It was] firs tpublished as s six-part serial in a British magazine, and then as a book in 1904." "These rare mysteries are enhanced by the inclusion of all the known original illustrations by T. Heath Robinson… Read More