Results
THE CONFESSIONS OF ARSÈNE LUPIN... Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos...
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 1-327 [328: blank], four inserted plates with illustrations by J. Henry, original blue-green cloth, front stamped in white, black, blue and gold, spine stamped in gold. First U. S. edition. Collects ten stories of Arsène Lupin.
THE TREMENDOUS EVENT ... Translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos.
New York: The Macaulay Company, [1922]. Octavo, pp. [1-10] 13-316 [317-318: blank] [note: text complete in spite of gap in pagination; last leaf is a blank], inserted frontispiece, original pictorial brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black. First U. S. edition. Translation of LE FORMIDABLE EVENEMENT (1920). Romantic adventure novel set after the ocean floor beneath the English Channel emerges and links Britain and France. During the chaos following the disaster bands of vicious criminals and looters roam the newly exposed land. "Wild, sensational, and incredible." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1299. Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 51. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 135. Bleiler (1978), p. 120. Reginald 08758. Hubin (1994), p. 490.