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William Le Queux : A Secret Service : Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist : Crime
William Le Queux : A Secret Service : Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist : Crime
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A SECRET SERVICE : BEING STRANGE TALES OF A NIHILIST
By William Le Queux
Published by Ward, Lock and Co, London, undated but known to be 1896. Hardback, cloth spine and pictorial boards. 320 pages.
CONDITION
A good copy. The cloth spine is good, boards good with some wear to the corners, a little browning to the endpapers, all contents present and pages in good condition throughout. Overall a good copy.
William Tufnell Le Queux (2 July 1864 – 13 October 1927) was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available; his claims regarding his own abilities and exploits, however, were usually exaggerated. His best-known works are the anti-French and anti-Russian invasion fantasy The Great War in England in 1897 (1894) and the anti-German invasion fantasy The Invasion of 1910 (1906), the latter becoming a bestseller.
(Loc: Shop; Blue shelves No 3; Top shelf )
