UNLOCKING ADVENTURE.
1942réf. 82387New York:: Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company 1942. Hardcover first edition -. Very good in beige cloth with dark brown lettering on the spine in a good dust jacket with a long chip at the bottom edge of the front cover wear to the ends of the spine tape reinforcement to interior of dj price-clipped. Some shelfwear to the bottom edges of the boards. Uncommon in the first edition in dustjacket. . First edition. The Autobiography of a World-famous Locksmith. From the jacket: "Charles Courtney's fingers which have been insured for $100000.00 have led him into adventures as fantastic entertaining and nerve-tingling as any in our day. Mr. Courtney is the world's highest paid 'legal Jimmy Valentine' a safe-cracker. His jobs take him wherever there is a safe no one else can crack. The safes of Kaiser Wilhelm the chests that held the crown jewels of the Romanoffs the strong-boxes that ex-King Alfonso of Spain brought with him when he escaped to France are but a few which have yielded to Mr. Courtney's fingers. Some of his most spine-chilling adventures have been on the floor of the sea. he unlocked the safes of the Egypt topedoed during WWI with a cargo of gold and diamonds and was hired by sir Basil Zaharoff to work on the wreck of the British cruiser Hampshire. The team of divers found the gold she was carrying but met a catastrophe that killed his companions." Illustrated with photographs. 335 pp. Whittlesey House / McGraw-Hill Book Company, hardcover
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