My Adventures in the Flying Scotsman. A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares.

Eden Phillpotts

My Adventures in the Flying Scotsman. A Romance of London and North-Western Railway Shares.

London:

James Hogg and Sons

1888

This scarce and oddly titled first novel by the prolific and popular Eden Phillpotts maintains its fragile “rainbow stamping.” The detective is the narrator, “a meek little man.” Tipped into this copy is a postcard dated December, 1938, from Phillpotts to his bibliographer, Percival Hinton. This copy was once in the library and contains the bookplate of Eric Quayle, the English collector and writer, and author of The Collector’s Book of Detective Fiction (1972). Queen’s Quorum no. 13.

From the Collection of Jeffrey Johnson