The Leavenworth Case: A Lawyer’s Story.

GREEN, Anna Katharine.

$2,250.00

Item Number: 139547

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1878.

First edition of the author’s first book, considered one of the best American detective novels. Octavo, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to the spine, rebacked. In very good condition. Small ownership name. Housed in a custom half morocco and folding chemise slipcase. Rare.

The Leavenworth Case "may fairly be called the father of the modern detective story. Poe discovered the idea, but Anna Katherine Green gave the story its pattern and garments" (Grolier American). With this, her first novel, Green began, notably, what would become one of the first detective series; the introduction of her investigator, Ebeneezer Gryce, preceded the first appearance of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes by nine years and marked the entry of a female author into the predominantly male literary genre.