LE QUEUX, William. The Voice from the Void: The Great Wireless Mystery. New York: The Macaulay Company. 1923.
8vo. Publisher’s illustrated green boards, illustrated dust-jacket with publisher’s advertisements to back cover; pp. 318, [2 (blank)]; a little chipping to edges and usual soiling to whites of jacket but otherwise a wonderful example of a 1920s crime jacket, a little pushing to cloth at crown and base of spine, slight rippling to cloth at spine, very minor offsetting to endpapers, toning to edges of textblock; near fine.
First US edition in a particularly nice example of the original dust-jacket.
The Voice from the Void, incorporated Le Queux’s personal experience with the “wireless”. He was a member of the Institute of Radio Engineers, and broadcast music from his own station long before radio became widely available. “In the first novel cast in the atmosphere of the radio, he whirls the reader from one exciting adventure to another” (from the jacket).
First published in England by Cassell and Co in 1922, this US edition was issued the following year.
Hubin, p.246
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