Creator
“Waters” [William Russell]
Title
Recollections of a Detective Police Officer.
Coverage
London:
Publisher
J. & C. Brown.
Date
1856
Description
One of the first and the most important of the detective “memoirs” in “yellow-back” form. This copy of a fragile book comes from the former, and extensive, detective fiction collection of Edward and Florence Kaye of New York. According to bibliographer Michael Sadlier in his 1934 essay “Yellow-Backs” in New Paths in Book Collecting, “the success of this book was immediate, and it was speedily and numerously imitated.” Yellow-backs were cheaply made editions typically for sale in railway bookstalls. Alexander Dumas had the book translated into French and published in Paris. Queen’s Quorum no. 2 and a Haycraft-Queen selection.
Source
From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson