The Exploits of Arsene Lupin Maurice Leblanc, First Edition (10 results)

HB. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. Blue cloth on boards with black titles.Thin faint yellowing to boards top and bottom edges. Edges: foxing. Clean contents. Binding is As New. 223p Dj: other than a couple of faint tiny spots to flaps, a clean jacket. Light puckering from the clear adhesive covering. Spine: moderate sunning; head & foot with thin wear and tiny chips.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Exploits of Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc First UK Edition Cassell 1909. Light pencil date inscription to fep. Contents clean and unblemished throughout, no loose pages. Binding still firm. Original card covers are VG and paper spine still complete. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide (est. 1957) to check availability etc. We have many thousands more books in our shop than appear on line. No inscriptions, not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. 1st American Edition. First printing of this ARSENE LUPIN adventure. Brown decorated cloth. Covers lightly rubbed and title lettering a bit dulled. Former owner's name else interior clean and tight. A hardcover book in very good condition. Includes frontispiece by G.W. Gage. A mystery adventure featuring Arsene Lupin. Created as the French answer to the popularity of Sherlock Holmes, Lupin was featured in a series of highly popular novels. More recently, he serves as the inspiration for the popular Netflix series LUPIN.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. LEBLANC, Maurice; Alexander TRIXEIRA [TEXEIRA] DE MATTOS (translator). The Exploits of Arsène Lupin. New York, Harper and Brothers, 1907. First US edition of this collection of stories, marking the debut of the gentleman thief Arsène Lupin. Published in French as Arsène Lupin, Gentleman-Cambrioleur in 1907, the book comprises nine short stories which had already appeared in the monthly magazine Je Sais Tout between July 1905 and May 1907. The first UK edition appeared in June 1907 under the title Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar, preceding this US edition by four months. The ninth story, titled 'Sherlock Holmes Arrives too Late' in the UK edition, sparked a dispute with the lawyers of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Consequently, in this and subsequent editions, the story's title was altered to 'Holmlock Shears Arrives too Late'. Octavo, pp. 314; some light foxing but generally very good; original dark blue cloth, printed in black and yellow, no dust jacket (extremities lightly rubbed); bookseller's ticket 'Chas. E. Lauriat Co. Boston' to front flyleaf.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing, or second edition depending on preference of statement, published same year as the first edition. Book is very good with wear to edges and light discoloration of cloth from age and handling, spine is faded but gilt titles are still legible. Cracked gutter at rear, but still holding on. Octavo, 314 pages in red cloth, edges trimmed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Additional photos always available on request. Shipped in a fitted, padded box.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. first edition. VG in Poor DJ. First Edition. Extremely scarce thus, unique to AbeBooks in jacket at time of listing. Light signs of wear to exterior, binding solid and straight, bookplate pasted to inside front cover and bookseller sticker on inside back cover, else interior clean and unmarked. Jacket has large piece (including book title) missing from front cover and signs of general wear; poor condition only. Clearly read, but a nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Orange cloth hardcover in great shape. Original pictorial cloth, decorated in orange, blue and yellow. Solid binding. Some notes within, but no text is obscured. Clean and bright pages. 217 pp. Map of Paris endpapers. Scarce edition published for educational purposes, with the intention of teaching French. Quite an oddity, essential for any collection dedicated to the exploits of the titular Gentleman Thief. Each book is guaranteed to be as described, after being thoroughly checked by one of our booksellers. Books ship from Ottawa, ON, Canada. Thanks for supporting small businesses!

First American edition. Good condition. Chip to one corner of the half-title page. Small name plate from author John Ruyle. This is a classic work of French detective fiction featuring the gentleman thief and master of disguise, Arsène Lupin, who first appeared in 1905. About the Book: Author: Maurice Leblanc Character: Arsène Lupin is often considered a French counterpart to Sherlock Holmes. Clever, charming, and morally flexible, Lupin uses his intelligence to commit and solve crimes. Genre: Mystery, crime fiction, adventure First Appearance: L'Arrestation d'Arsène Lupin ("The Arrest of Arsène Lupin") in 1905 in the magazine Je sais tout. Notable Stories: The collection often titled "Arsène Lupin, Gentleman Burglar" includes nine short stories about his exploits.

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); dark green cloth, with titles stamped in white, and large pictorial label mounted to front cover; [viii],287,[1]pp, with frontispiece and seven plates of illustrations by Dalton Stevens. Contemporary bookplate mounted to front pastedown, gentle sunning to spine, with light wear to extremities, and some softening to spine ends, and mild surface wear to pictorial label; contens clean, with hinges sound; Very Good, lacking the rare dustjacket. The fifth novel in Leblanc's series featuring Arsène Lupin, French gentleman burglar and master of disguise, first serialized in Le Journal in 1912 as Le Bouchon de Cristal. Though now more than a century removed from his creation, the exploits of Leblanc's signature character are the basis for the French Netflix series Lupin, starring Omar Sy.HUBIN, p.249.