Anna Katherine Green — The Filigree Ball

Indianapolis , The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1903 . First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of The Filigree Ball by Anna Katherine Green. A first American edition, first impression copy with 'March' to the editions page.Anna Katherine Green was an American poet and novelist and one of the first writers of detective fiction in America, writing well plotted and accurate stories. The Filigree Ball is an account of the solution of the mystery concerning the Jeffery-Moore affair. Illustrated with a frontispiece by C. M. Relyea. Collated, complete. With adverts to the rear. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine and extremities. Light marks to the boards. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Very Good . Ill.: C. M. Relyea. Very Good .