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CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. Autograph manuscript of the Civil War espionage fiction Secret Service Operator 13. [Broadalbin, New York, 1933]. 856 pages, plus 2 contents pages, folio, written in pencil with very extensive revisions and deletions on rectos of lined yellow legal sheets, each sheet inlaid to large folio, elaborately bound in 3 vols., large folio, maroon morocco gilt, turn-ins gilt, maroon silk endleaves, calligraphic title-pages, g.e., by the Cuneo Press Studio, in 3 maroon cloth folding cases.
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CHAMBERS, ROBERT W. Autograph manuscript of the Civil War espionage fiction Secret Service Operator 13. [Broadalbin, New York, 1933]. 856 pages, plus 2 contents pages, folio, written in pencil with very extensive revisions and deletions on rectos of lined yellow legal sheets, each sheet inlaid to large folio, elaborately bound in 3 vols., large folio, maroon morocco gilt, turn-ins gilt, maroon silk endleaves, calligraphic title-pages, g.e., by the Cuneo Press Studio, in 3 maroon cloth folding cases.
Secret Service Operator 13, one of the prolific Chambers's last works, was published posthumously in New York in 1934. It consists of a series of twelve related short stories, centered around the adventures of "Secret Service Operator 13," a female spy for the Union Forces, and Capt. John Gailliard, C.S.A., her Confederate opponent. The stories have such titles as "Pretty Nigger," "Skin Deep," "Counter-Spy," "John Gailliard Rides," "Blonde and Black," etc.
Provenance: Marian Davies (mistress of William Randolph Hearst, sale, Parke-Bernet, 3 December 1945) -- Francis Kettaneh, bookplate.
Secret Service Operator 13, one of the prolific Chambers's last works, was published posthumously in New York in 1934. It consists of a series of twelve related short stories, centered around the adventures of "Secret Service Operator 13," a female spy for the Union Forces, and Capt. John Gailliard, C.S.A., her Confederate opponent. The stories have such titles as "Pretty Nigger," "Skin Deep," "Counter-Spy," "John Gailliard Rides," "Blonde and Black," etc.
Provenance: Marian Davies (mistress of William Randolph Hearst, sale, Parke-Bernet, 3 December 1945) -- Francis Kettaneh, bookplate.