Yellow Room Mystery

Gaston LEROUX. The Extraordinary Adventures of Joseph Rouletabille Reporter. Illustrations by Simont & Loevy. Pierre Lafitte & Co. Paris. (1908). In-8 (19 x 28.2 cm) with 1 false title, 1 front., 1 illustrated title, 314-(2) pp., 11 pl. Publisher's cardboard. Red percaline, bevelled boards, tr. golden. Polychrome decoration on the front cover: Rouletabille with a pipe in his mouth, standing in front of a large golden question mark. Back: golden titles and question mark. Decorative pattern in black in the center of the second cover.
First printing, first cardboard. The Mystery of the Yellow Room, the only Rouletabille in polychrome cardboard. Illustrations in text and twelve plates out of text printed on coated paper. Rare cardboard. Restoration at the foot of the lower joint.