This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...been backing me. Spent my savings and made you dig into your roll. Ready to quit and admit I'm a sucker for thinking I can ever lay my hands on him, and then he's delivered into my clutches. And then he slips out! For it's a cinch that the Gray Ghost tumbled to the double-cross being handed him and--Jacques is the one ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 Excerpt: ...been backing me. Spent my savings and made you dig into your roll. Ready to quit and admit I'm a sucker for thinking I can ever lay my hands on him, and then he's delivered into my clutches. And then he slips out! For it's a cinch that the Gray Ghost tumbled to the double-cross being handed him and--Jacques is the one who has paid the penalty. Maybe the woman, too. Oh, I'm a fool! I could have got some slick shadow to look after Jacques; I might have figured that no French waiter could hand the Gray Ghost the toss, with any woman to help him! But if I'd protected the little man--"Mr. Pelham, maybe I'm a nut after all. This evidence wouldn't make you think so, though, would it? This evidence makes it seem certain that there is a Gray Ghost and that I was on the way to land him. But now the little Frenchman is d. and o. I don't hear from the woman--" He stopped suddenly as the telephone rang. He leaped to the instrument and held the receiver to his ear. Pelham watched him. Over the ex-lieutenant's face, came an expression of incredulity. "And you'll give, me complete; charge? I'll be right over.' He slammed the telephone on the desk and turned to Pelham, with eves ablaze. "It's Brainerd--the commissioner. The biggest thing that ever happened on Manhattan Island! The thing that I'd have squelched if the little Frenchman had played it safer." "You mean the Gray Ghost--" "Brainerd doesn't say so; but he says that he's agreeing with me at last! He says that no one but a genius could have pulled this trick. 'Call him the Gray Ghost or what you will, ' he says to me. 'Come get him!' he says. 'If he isn't the Gray Ghost he might as well be, for he's done the biggest thing that ever was done.' "Full powers over every detect...
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Add this copy of Loot to cart. $9.00, good condition, Sold by Bingo Used Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $9.29, very good condition, Sold by Bingo Used Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Vancouver, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Bobbs Merrill.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $10.00, good condition, Sold by MLC Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Northfield, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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Bracker, M. Leone. Good. No Jacket. Somers' first novel, basis for the 1917 silent movie serial "The Gray Ghost" starring Harry Carter. Bumped and rubbed, front hinge cracking, rear loose. Front end paper has the upper 1" cut out.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $14.97, very good condition, Sold by Bookin' rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LENHARTSVILLE, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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M. Leone Bracker. Very Good. pp. 320. (EB). A very nice copy. Sound throughout with light wear at the extremities of the cover. No dust jacket. Possible First Edition. During this time period Bobbs-Merrill was inconsistent with marking its first Editions according to Zemple and Verkler. I am not pricing it as a first.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $20.00, very good condition, Sold by funyettabooks rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bloomington, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Bobbs-Merrill Company Inc.
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Illustrated By M. Leone Bracker. Very Good+ Vintage, Crime Fiction. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Clean and tight and square with sharp corners. Brown on brown boards with white lettering on the front and on the spine. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Presumed to be a First Edition, no other printings listed. Name stamped on the inside of the front cover.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $25.00, very good condition, Sold by Old Book Shop of Bordentown rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bordentown, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Bobbs Merrill.
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Very Good. First edition. Hardcover in two-tone brown cloth lettered in white. Illustrated endpapers. 320 pp. with additional full page illustrations by M. Leone Backer. A tight, clean very good example, minor rubbing to the front board lettering and more so to the spine lettering. Fiction. A young man, Jack Dysart, inherits a boat-load of money from an uncle and quickly discovers that his newfound wealth attracts a group of ruthless criminals. Jack also finds himself attracted to a beautiful but mysterious woman, Helen Trent, and together they travel a perilous road through the criminal underworld, facing danger at every turn.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $25.00, good condition, Sold by MLC Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Northfield, MN, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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Bracker, M. Leone. Good. No Jacket. Basis for the 1917 silent movie "The Gray Ghost" starring Harry Carter and Priscilla Dean. Bumped and rubbed with a bit of wear at the corners and spine ends. Small drip marks on the upper edge of the text block, previous owner's gift inscription on the front free end paper. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Between the Covers-Rare Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester City, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by Bobbs-Merrill.
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Very Good. First edition. Illustrated by M. Leone Bracker. Foxing on a few pages, toned spine with lettering mostly rubbed off, very good, lacking the dust jacket. Hardboiled gangster novel that was the basis for the 1919 William C. Dowlan silent film. In *Hubin*.
Add this copy of Loot to cart. $45.00, very good condition, Sold by Quercus Rare Books rated 2.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Chico, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1916 by The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
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M. Leone Bracker. Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition [Hubin, 351]. Brown and maroon cloth binding with titling in white on the spine and front cover. Clean text; 320 pages. Distinguished by the illustrations of M. Leone Bracker (1885-1937) on the endpapers, title page, and four others within. Contemporary (1918) gift inscription on the FFEP. Light rub to the margins. Spine titling is rubbed, but still perfectly readable. No dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.
Add this copy of Loot (1916) to cart. $57.08, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Kessinger Publishing.
