TUTTIETT, Mary Gleed (1846-1923). ("Maxwell Gray"). The Black Opal. New York: D. Appleton, 1918.
8vo. 4 plates by Stockton Mulford. Original red cloth-backed boards lettered in yellow; dust jacket (tiny hole near foot of spine, small chip near top edge of front panel).
RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION IN DUST JACKET. First published in the same year in England as The Diamond Pendant, this story follows a popular governess, blackmailed into becoming a jewel thief. Not in Hubin.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
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