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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. New York: Scribners, 1990. 1903 [the 1st edition of this translation was Estes & Lauriat, 1880; the French first edition was in 1869]. Very Good to Near Fine cloth, w/o dustwrapper. Four inserted illustration plates by Bayard Jones (1869-1969), who was born in Georgia, studied in France at the Academie Julian with Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant, worked as a periodical and book illustrator in New York, and was a member of the Society of Illustrators. This "The Honor of the Name" features the famed Detective Lecoq, and is a direct sequel to "Monsieur Lecoq" though both novels stand alone. Gaboriau is still well regarded as a pioneering founder of detective fiction; as there was not yet a detective category of publishing he was called the leading "sensation" novelist, after the sensationalist content, and was often called "the Edgar Allan Poe of France." He preceded Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and Doyle clearly took some pointers from Gaboriau. His international fame held for many years, but then the overwhelming popularity of Holmes caused a decline of interest in Lecoq.
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1903 [the 1st edition of this translation was Estes and Lauriat, 1880; the French first edition was in 1869]. Very Good to Near Fine cloth, w/o dustwrapper. Four inserted illustration plates by Bayard Jones (1869-1969), who was born in Georgia, studied in France at the Academie Julian with Benjamin Jean-Joseph Constant, worked as a periodical and book illustrator in New York, and was a member of the Society of Illustrators. Napoleonic murder mystery. Silent movie adaptations were released in 1914 and 1915 (not known to survive), and a television version in 1975 in the anthology series "Les grands detectives." Gaboriau is still well regarded as a pioneering founder of detective fiction; as there was not yet a detective category of publishing he was called the leading "sensation" novelist, after the sensationalist content, and was often called "the Edgar Allan Poe of France." He preceded Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes, and Doyle clearly took some pointers from Gaboriau. His international fame held for many years, but then the overwhelming popularity of Holmes caused a decline of interest in Lecoq.
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.
