SIGNED WILLIAM LE QUEUX Mystery of the Green Ray 1915-1st Novel, Fiction

The Mystery of The Green Ray William Le Queux. Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London (1915) First Edition. Signed and Inscribed on the front endpaper "To D R Grant from his friend William Le Queux". Bound in the publisher's blue boards with green and black titles to the upper board and spine. Boards with wear to the edges and corners, spine ends bumped.

Internally there is some scattered foxing to the early and latter pages and closed edges, but generally the block is in good order. Small prev owner sticker to the inner cover.

Rare presentation copy from the prolific author. On the eve of the First World War, two friends go on a fishing holiday in Scotland before joining up. While staying at the house of retired General McLeod they become aware of mysterious apparitions on the loch. Matters turn more serious when Myra, the general's daughter is struck blind at the same place as the apparitions were seen. The two set out to investigate the cause of the strange events, and what role, if any, the rich American has in the affair, as they try to solve.. Mystery of the Green Ray! William Tufnell Le Queux was an Anglo-French journalist and writer. He was also a diplomat (honorary consul for San Marino), a traveller (in Europe, the Balkans and North Africa), a flying buff who officiated at the first British air meeting at Doncaster in 1909, and a wireless pioneer who broadcast music from his own station long before radio was generally available. His best-known works remain the anti-German invasion fantasies "The Great War in England in 1897" (1894) and "The Invasion of 1910" (1906), the latter of which was a phenomenal bestseller.

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