THE LION'S SHARE. With illustrations by C.M. Ashe
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: McLeod & Allen, 1907. Octavo, dark reddish-brown cloth gilt lettered, by illustration in blind on front cover by "C" (= Thomas Maitland Cleland). pp (8), 376 + frontispiece with tissue guard and 5 other plates. Spine a little sunned and rippled, with a 3 inch narrow dark streak at top and moderate wear at ends; light damp spot to front cover; former private owner rubber stamp and pencil name at front; yellowing to page edges; else a VG clean and tight copy. A crime novel involving a kidnapping, set mostly in California, partly in San Franciso's Chinatown. Hubin II p792. Made from sheets of the 1907 Bobbs-Merrill edition.