Perfume Lady Black by Gaston Leroux, First Edition (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Thought to be first edition and printing. In good plus bright oranage/yellow cloth boards, black titles to front and spine. The boards are flat, quite clean; loose from page block at front with webbing just visible from one of the Prelims; spine ends and corners bumped. Very lightly tanned end papers. The cut edges are tanned and marked. Good plus text block with firm and straight pages, very lightly tanned page edges. No dedications etc. Adverts to rear. Without jacket.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Spine cracked. (Detectives, Mystery).

Green Cloth. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ as Issued. First Edition. First English Edition. Continuation of 'The Mystery of the Yellow Room', this completes the mystery with the detective, and preludes Leroux's 'The Phantom of the Opera'. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front board and pressed onlay portrait in color. 8vo. 326 pp + 8 pgs adverts. Very Good Plus. Boards a little bumped. Faint foxing small portions of a couple final endpapers. Otherwise the interior is near fine with clean text and tight binding. Size: 8vo. Hard Cover.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. HB NOJACKET, 1911 on Title Pg, 1st British edition, VG+/VG, AS-IS, NOJACKET, THICK Green pictorial Cloth with minor rub & Wear has Embossed slightly rubbed Gold gilt Titles &, Gold Gilt titles on spine CVR lightened, Minor Fox wear Interior, 326 pgs Epilogue, Ads in back Thru The Nun by Bazin, COLOR Pictorial Paste-On Label on front Cvr of Lady in black Dress & Red Corsage standing by Table with Flowers atop it with Blue Background.

1st Edition. First American Edition. 16mo. Yellow, fabric binding with an illustration of a nineteenth-century lady and stamped, red lettering to front cover. Stamped, black lettering to spine. A novel. Very Good interior with Good cover. Some soiling to front and back covers. Sunning to spine, with rubbing to spine head and tail.

Condition: Gut. 377 pp First american edition. Illustrated original cover, no dust jacket. Cover rubbed and slightly bumped, inside clean and good with only slight signs of wear 37 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 700.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 377, 12 illustrations, orange cloth decorated in black and red with blind-stamped figure in background. Covers very lightly scuffed, else a clean, square, bright copy in a facsimile dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Plates throughout. (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, 1909. Small amount of worming to the margin of pages 148-166 ( one hole only). Publishers yellow cloth with pictorial illustration of a lady in black, lightly rubbed. Spine and edges lightly rubbed, else a very good solid copy. 377 p. Book.

First edition. First U. S. edition. First published in French in 1907 as Le Parfum de la Dame en Noir. A sequel to Leroux's 1908 novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room, featuring locked-room elements. Basis for the 1931 French film directed by Marcel L'Herbier, and the 1974 giallo-horror film directed by Francesco Barilli. Former owner's neat bookplate on front pastedown sheet and a tiny erasure hole on half title page, else a fine, bright copy in the elusive dust jacket reinforced at a few points on the verso, with light chips and nicks to the spine ends, corners and extremities, and a small loss towards the center of the rear panel, affecting two words. Considered to be one of two masterpieces written by the author, (the other being THE MYSTERY OF THE YELLOW ROOM), this story finds the reporter-detective Joseph Rouletabille, his confidant, Sainclair, who also narrates the story, Mathilde Strangerson (the LADY IN BLACK), Robert Darzac, and the notorious criminal Ballmeyer, (alias Jean Roussel and Frederic Larsan) dealing with the attempted murder of Mathilde Strangerson. The identity of the criminal is hidden from the rest of the characters until uncovered by Rouletabille along with the mystery of how the criminal entered a hermetically sealed room to make murderous attempts and escape thereafter. Adey 1202 says, "The appearance of a body within locked quarters with all persons within the area accounted for." An attractive presentation of a choice item, especially in the rare dust jacket. Housed in a leather clamshell case with titles stamped in gilt on the spine. A Haycraft/Queen Cornerstone title.

First American Edition. Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, basis for the 1931 French film directed by Marcel L'Herbier, and the 1974 giallo film directed by Francesco Barilli. Very Good plus, lacking the scarce dust jacket.