The Crinkled Crown
New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good / Very Good. Item #2351198
First American edition. Jacket edges a bit rubbed with minor loss from corners, jacket toned, front hinge just beginning to weaken.
320 pp. An international thriller centering around the crown of Ivan the Terrible, and the adventures of the British secret service's Captain Easterbee. "William Tufnell Le Queux 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 of which was a phenomenal bestseller."
Price: $125.00