A Daughter of Astrea

New York: Donald W. Newton, No date. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. 228pp. Duodecimo [19 cm] Pale sea-green cloth over boards with an illustrated paper label mounted to the front board. Spine faded. Spine and boards lightly edgeworn. Slight lean to the spine. Previous owner's name on the front free endpaper. From the collection of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle. In 1948 Bleiler Checklist (dropped). A lost race novel, and a story told by an unspecified artistic narrator. The prolific British author E. Phillips Oppenheim (1866-1946) was one of the earliest writers of spy fiction, and is credited with creating the 'rogue male' genre of adventure thrillers.