B.E.J. Capes. The Mill of Silence. Rand, McNally & Co., 1897.

Price: US$300.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo in olive cloth, title and decorations in off-white and black. Binding square, front hinge cracked, rear hinge starting, rubbing at the corners and spine ends. Certainly a serviceable copy of the classic of Victorian mystery stories.

Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.

Capes, B. E. J. THE MILL OF SILENCE. Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago and New York, 1897.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Chicago and New York: Rand, McNally & Co., 1897. First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo, original olive pictorial cloth stamped in green and gilt, top edge gilt. Pages [1-5] 6-348. Old price in ink on a rear blank, else Fine condition. Not in Bleiler (1948; 1978). Capes was a prolific Victorian author, publishing more than 40 volumes -- romances, mysteries, poetry, history --together with many articles for the magazines of the day. His first success came in 1896, when he entered a $30,000 competition "Stories of Mystery" for new authors sponsored by the Chicago Record. He was awarded second prize (out of a field of 816 entries) for "The Mill of Silence" published by Rand, McNally in 1897. The following year the chicago Record ran the competition again, and this time Capes won it with "The Lake of Wine.

Seller: Alkahest Books, Deerfield, IL, U.S.A.