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Author:

Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William), 1866-1921, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbCPXRyQdxj436rwD8grq

Title:

Raffles : further adventures of the amateur cracksman / by E.W. Hornung ; illustrated by F.C. Yohn.

Publisher:

Trow DirectoryPrinting and Bookbinding Company.

Copyright Date:

©1901

Description:

vi, 301 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (black- & -white), frontispiece, plates ; 19 cm

Subject:

Raffles--(Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Thieves--England--Fiction.
Cricket players--England--Fiction.
English fiction--Male authors--20th century.
Great Britain--Social life and customs--Victoria, 1837-1901--Fiction.
Raffles (Personnage fictif)--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Voleurs--Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Joueurs de cricket--Angleterre--Romans, nouvelles, etc.
Cricket players
English fiction--Male authors
Manners and customs
Raffles--(Fictitious character)
Thieves
England
Great Britain
1837-1999
short stories.
illustrated books.
Detective and mystery fiction
Fiction
Illustrated works
Short stories
Short stories.
Detective and mystery fiction.
Illustrated works.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--New York--New York--1901.
Gold blocked bindings (Binding)
Signed bindings (Binding)
Illustrated works--New York--New York--1901.
Publishers' advertisements--New York--New York--1901.
Mystery and detective fiction--Great Britain.
Mystery and detective fiction--Great Britain.
Nouvelles.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Other Authors:

Yohn, F. C. (Frederick Coffay), 1875-1933, illustrator. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJgX7BJxqbTT46DwM9RHYP
Richards, Amy, active 1896-1918, binding designer. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjxFhHVDmQQrYJC6jyy9Qq
Caplan, Richard M., 1929- former owner. IaU
Charles Scribner's Sons, publisher.
Trow Directory, Printing and Bookbinding Company, binder. binder.

Notes:

Title within borders; frontispiece guard-sheet present; copyright and manufacture statements from title verso; publishers' advertising matter following text; binding signe ("A.R.") on front cover XCOL copy #1: Removed from the Dr. Richard Caplan Sherlock Holmes Collection (MsC1154). IaU

Contents:

No sinecure -- A jubilee present -- The fate of Faustina -- The last laugh -- To catch a thief -- An old flame -- The wrong house -- The knees of the gods.

Summary:

Short stories about the adventures of a Robin Hood-ish hero.

Indexed by:

Hubin, A.J. Crime fiction, 1749-1980, p. 206

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1467525

LCCN:

01023638

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)