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1 Oliver (Dr. N.T.) [E.O. Tilburn] A Desperate Deed. Illustrated.

Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1900. First edition under this title. Color pictorial wrappers. Frontispiece and numerous illustrations. Issued as No. 43 in the Pinkerton Detective Series - Quarterly. April, 1900. Chipping to spine and edges of rear cover, some wear to corners, about very good. A very cheaply produced book, the paper is quite browned. Previously published in 1896 as: The Confession of Lorraine Herschel. A Story of Mystery. Oliver was the author of the notoriously rare lost-race fantasy ALMEDA (1889). Listed in Hubin. 
Price: 50.00 CDN
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2 Oliver (Dr. N.T.) [E.O. Tilburn] A Woman of Nerve. A Tale of the West. Illustrated.

Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1900. First edition. Color pictorial wrappers. Frontispiece & several illustrations. Issued as No. 235 in The Pastime Series. Lacking the back cover, spine ends quite chipped, part of lower front wrapper missing, affecting the text of the imprint, about very good otherwise. A very fragile and cheaply produced book. Looks to be a sensational novel, of gold & mystery in the old west. Listed in Hubin. Very scarce. 
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3 Oliver (Dr. N.T.) [E.O. Tilburn] The Confession of Lorraine Herschel. A Story of Mystery.

Chicago: Laird & Lee, (1896). First edition, paper issue. Frontispiece and several illustrations. Pictorial wrappers, chipped away at lower spine, considerable wear to spine, about very good. Issued as No. 33 in The Pastime Series, March 31, 1896. A sensational murder mystery. Another edition was published later as: A Desperate Need (Laird & Lee, 1900). Listed in Hubing. Very scarce. 
Price: 75.00 CDN
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4 Oliver (Dr. N.T.) The Fateful Hand or Saved By Lightning. [above the title]: A Thrilling Romance of the St. Louis Cyclone.
Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1896. First edition. 
Original pictorial wrappers. Wrappers chipped at edges, old stains to upper front cover, ink stamps of a Spokane bookshop on first few leaves. Internally quite decent, and otherwise generally very good. Issued as No. 42 in The Pastime Series (but with a different number on the spine: No. 184). July, 1896. Frontispiece and seven inserted plates. A sensational novel set in Saint Louis, with SF elements: a man stricken with paralysis during a cyclone is later revived by a scientist's 'X RAY' machine during another cyclone, and is able to remember the details of a murder which he had witnessed. Oliver was the author of 'ALMEDA' (1889), one of the great rarities of the lost-race canon. Oliver's books are very scarce. 
Price: 90.00 CDN
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