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Showing posts with label Maurice Leblanc. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Maurice Leblanc. Show all posts
Saturday, 10 April 2010
French Canadian Paperbacks - Part VI - Arsene Lupin
Here are three more books with the gentleman thief Arsene Lupin published by Montreal's les Editions Varietes. All were published in 1944.
Sunday, 4 April 2010
French Canadian Paperbacks - Part V Gaston Leroux and Maurice Leblanc
In the first three parts of this post I highlighted the editions of Maurice Leblanc published by Montreal's Les Editions Varietes in the mid 1940s. Here is another Arsene Lupin plus two by Gaston Leroux (Phantom of the Opera fame) from the same series.
Rouletabille chez Krupp - 1944
Rouletabille chez le Tsar: deuxieme partie Le secret de la nuit - 1945
La cagliostro se venge - 1944
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
French Canadian Paperbacks - Part III Arsene Lupin
In parts I and II I've shown three books from a series published in Montreal in 1944 and 1945. Here are three more, all by Maurice Leblanc and starring Arsene Lupin.
The first Lupin story, L'arrestation D'Arsene Lupin (The Arrest of Arsene Lupin), was published in the French magazine Je sais tout in 1905. It and 12 others from three of the five collections of Lupin stories are available in a recent Penguin edition (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, ed. Michael Sims) that I highly recommend. The story and eight others were collected in the first Lupin book, Arsene Lupin gentleman cambrioleur (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar). The edition below was published in 1945 by Montreal's Les Editions Varietes. Also below are two Lupin novels from the same series.
One of the stories in that first collection is Herlock Sholmes arrive trop tard (Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late). The name is correct - Doyle (or his agents) were not happy with Sherlock showing up in this series, hence the subtle disguise. This is in the Penguin edition.
The second collection of Lupin stories was published in 1908 - Arsene Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes. It was published in England in 1909 as Arsene Lupin versus Holmlock Shears (yes - name changed again by the translator) and in America in 1910 as The Blonde Lady: Being a Record of the Duel of Wits Between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective. Also published by the obscure Atomic Books of New York. The last of Atomic's four books, Sherlock Holmes versus Arsene Lupin: The Case of the Golden Blonde, was published in 1946 as a paperback digest. The story is "adapted by JB". The book looks like a novel with no chapters and no sense that it is a collection of stories.
The first Lupin story, L'arrestation D'Arsene Lupin (The Arrest of Arsene Lupin), was published in the French magazine Je sais tout in 1905. It and 12 others from three of the five collections of Lupin stories are available in a recent Penguin edition (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Thief, ed. Michael Sims) that I highly recommend. The story and eight others were collected in the first Lupin book, Arsene Lupin gentleman cambrioleur (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar). The edition below was published in 1945 by Montreal's Les Editions Varietes. Also below are two Lupin novels from the same series.
One of the stories in that first collection is Herlock Sholmes arrive trop tard (Sherlock Holmes Arrives Too Late). The name is correct - Doyle (or his agents) were not happy with Sherlock showing up in this series, hence the subtle disguise. This is in the Penguin edition.
The second collection of Lupin stories was published in 1908 - Arsene Lupin contre Herlock Sholmes. It was published in England in 1909 as Arsene Lupin versus Holmlock Shears (yes - name changed again by the translator) and in America in 1910 as The Blonde Lady: Being a Record of the Duel of Wits Between Arsene Lupin and the English Detective. Also published by the obscure Atomic Books of New York. The last of Atomic's four books, Sherlock Holmes versus Arsene Lupin: The Case of the Golden Blonde, was published in 1946 as a paperback digest. The story is "adapted by JB". The book looks like a novel with no chapters and no sense that it is a collection of stories.
Arsene Lupin gentleman cambrioleur (Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar) - published 1907
813 - published 1910
La barre-y-va - published 1931
Sunday, 21 March 2010
French Canadian Paperbacks - Part II Arsene Lupin
An earlier post described the Le Point d'Interrogation series from the Montreal publisher Les Editions Varietes. Twenty-three of the 28 books in the series were by Maurice Leblanc, creator of Arsene Lupin, the Gentleman-Burglar (title of the first collection of stories).
Here is one of his non-Lupin novels - Les Trois Yeux (The Three Eyes), published in October 1944. The book is digest sized, 192 pages and printed on high acid paper. Originally published in 1919 the story involves contact with three-eyed Venusians.
This edition is an exact reprint of a French digest published by Editions Pierre Lafitte in 1935, number 40 in a similarly named series. The cover is slightly modified with the price removed. There is no artist named on the Montreal edition. It looks like the same art but looking closely it appears to be a redrawn version of the French edition - artist Reschovsky (?).
Here is one of his non-Lupin novels - Les Trois Yeux (The Three Eyes), published in October 1944. The book is digest sized, 192 pages and printed on high acid paper. Originally published in 1919 the story involves contact with three-eyed Venusians.
This edition is an exact reprint of a French digest published by Editions Pierre Lafitte in 1935, number 40 in a similarly named series. The cover is slightly modified with the price removed. There is no artist named on the Montreal edition. It looks like the same art but looking closely it appears to be a redrawn version of the French edition - artist Reschovsky (?).
Les Editions Varietes
Editions Pierre Lafitte
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