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Our fall sale of fine books & manuscripts focuses on rare horror and mystery first editions, scarce pulps and zines, manuscripts, and more by the most famous authors of modern works in the genres of horror and mystery. Among the highlights are the true first edition of Bram Stoker's Dracula, and other cornerstones of the genre.
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Lot 478

DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930). The Crime of the Congo. London: Hutchinson & Co., [ca. 1909].

Estimate: $150 - $300
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DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan (1859-1930). The Crime of the Congo. London: Hutchinson & Co., [ca. 1909]. 8vo. Illustrated with photographic frontispiece of mutilated Congolese. 128 pp. Wrappers not bound-in. Rebound in near-contemporary full blue cloth, spine stamped in gilt. FIRST EDITION OF THIS EXPOSURE OF THE HORRIFIC TREATMENT OF THE CONGOLESE BY THE BELGIAN KING, LEOPOLD II. The inhumane treatment of the Congolese was a cause célèbre for many people, including Doyle, and Mark Twain (King Leopold's Soliloquy, 1905). 

Condition

Cloth spine sunned, some rubbing, light soiling to binding, endleaves and text toned, original stab-holes visible on frontispiece. Very good. 

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