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hether you’re sleuthing out that elusive first edition or simply solving the case of the slipperyW birthday gift, Peter Harrington stocks hundreds of rare detective novels to browse and buy. Click on any of the pictures within this PDF to uncover the respective item on our website; magnifying glass not included click on the images above to go direct to our website ALLAIN, Marcel. ALLINGHAM, Margery. Six Against the Yard. In which [the six Fantômas Captured. Translated and Traitor’s Purse. authors] Commit the Crime of Murder edited by A. R. Allinson. Heinemann, London, 1941 which Ex-Superintendent Cornish, London: Stanley, Paul & Co., 1926 Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. C.I.D., is called upon to solve. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and rules to With the jacket. Annotation to list of titles London: Selwyn & Bount, [1936] boards red. With the dust jacket. Ownership inscriptions opposite title page, but an exceptional copy in the lightly Octavo. Original salmon pink cloth, titles to spine in to front endpapers and rear pastedown. Spine gently creased and very slightly chipped dust jacket. black. With the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to ends and rolled, edges of text block lightly foxed and marked; a First edition, first impression. A fabulous piece board edges, spotting to edges and early leaves, a very very good copy in the slightly soiled jacket with tape of book design and exceedingly scarce in the good copy in the jacket with faint dust-soiling to rear reinforcements to spine ends and folds of panels, some dust jacket. panel and small chips to ends and corners. loss to head of spine, some short closed tears and shallow [ 49362] £2,200 First edition, first impression. Stamped on the chips to extremities. title page in purple ink “With the Publisher’s First edition in English, first impression. It was Compliments”. An interesting variation on first published in French earlier the same year as ALLINGHAM, Margery; Anthony the conventional detective fiction anthology, Fantômas en Danger. Scarce in the jacket. Berkeley; Freeman Wills Crofts; Fr. in which the six authors contribute stories featuring supposedly foolproof murders, [ 108024] £175 Ronald Knox; Dorothy L. Sayers; each followed by an exposition of the flaws in Russell Thorndike. the criminal scheme by the recently-retired detective George W. Cornish of Scotland Yard. [ 86243] £6,250 click on the images above to go direct to our website ALLINGHAM, Margery; Anthony each followed by an exposition of the flaws in First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the Berkeley; Freeman Wills Crofts; Fr. the criminal scheme by the recently-retired author on the title page, “Mort , from detective George W. Cornish of Scotland Yard. Ronald Knox; Dorothy L. Sayers; Eric Ambler, Los Angeles, 1970”. Russell Thorndike. [ 89246] £500 [ 90534] £3,250 Six Against the Yard. In which [the six authors] Commit the Crime of Murder AMBLER, Eric. AMBLER, Eric. which Ex-Superintendent Cornish, Journey Into Fear. The Mask of Dimitrios. C.I.D., is called upon to solve. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1940 London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1939 London: Selwyn & Bount, [1936] Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in black. Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in crimson Octavo. Original pink cloth, titles to spine in black. With the scarce dust jacket. Small pencil inscription on morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, Without the dust jacket. Extremities of spine and the dedication page. Spine cocked and faded, rear board single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, dark green boards rubbed, bottom corner of front board lightly rubbed and with white and light brown spots, edges a endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. bumped, faint tanning to free endpapers, prelims a little little rubbed, small dampstain to fore edge of text block, First edition, first impression. A Haycraft Queen foxed. A very good copy. faint tanning to free endpapers, occasional single spot or Cornerstone in Detective Fiction. First edition, first impression. An interesting finger mark to contents. A very good copy in a rubbed [ 78304] £2,000 variation on the conventional detective fiction and chipped jacket with a few minor stains and short anthology, in which the six authors contribute closed tears. stories featuring supposedly foolproof murders,

click on the images above to go direct to our website ANDERSON, Frederick Irving. (ARABIAN NIGHTS) LANE, Edward First edition of Lane’s translation. An attractive library set. The Notorious Sophie Lang. William. London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1925 The Thousand and One Nights, [ 83174] £650 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt, with Commonly Called, In England, The the pictorial dust jacket. Spotting to the edges but a Arabian Nights’ Entertainments. A BERKELEY, Anthony. excellent copy in the chipped and somewhat creased dust New Translation from the Arabic, with jacket, tanned at the spine and generally a little grubby. Death in the House. Copious Notes by Edward William Hodder & Stoughton: London, 1939 First edition, first impression. This first of the Lane. Illustrated by Many Hundred author’s three novels filmed in 1936. Sophie Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Lang was a jewel thief who featured in several Engravings on Wood, From Original dust jacket. An exceptional copy in the very lightly books and a trio of picaresque movies. Of these Designs by William Harvey. In Three creased dust jacket. the first - based on the present title - is by far Volumes. First edition, first impression. A stunning book. the most successful. Despite the success of London: Charles Knight and Co., 1839-41 Anderson’s works this title was not published [ 49363] £4,500 3 volumes, octavo (242 × 150 mm). Contemporary America and must have had a scant print run in tan calf, red and brown morocco labels, elaborate the UK since copies in any condition are seldom decoration to spines in compartments separated by encountered and examples in the dust jacket are raised bands, twin rule to boards with cornerpieces, of the utmost scarcity. marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Engravings throughout. [ 105414] £5,250 An excellent set.

click on the images above to go direct to our website BERKELEY, Anthony. Holmes silhouette to front board black. With the dust BOUCHER, Anthony. jacket. Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A

Trial and Error. little darkening to spine and board edges; an excellent, The Case of the Seven Sneezes. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1937 bright copy in the unclipped jacket with extremities slightly New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board creased and rubbed, some shallow chips to extremities. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With in black. With the dust jacket. Slight rubbing to corners, First edition, first impression. With a typed the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled; an excellent copy in spotting to edges and the margins of some early and late note signed by the author to fellow mystery the unclipped jacket with sunned spine and extremities leaves; overall a very good copy in the mildly soiled jacket write Veronica Parker Johns laid in, in which he with some creasing and shallow chips, short closed tear with chips, tears and some loss to ends of spine panel. reflects on her short story, The Homecoming, to head of rear panel, small chip to foot of front panel. First edition, first printing. One of the Haycraft- that it was “a damned good story, which First edition, first impression. From the library Queen Cornerstone books. The printed assuredly as an editor I would buy, but a little of the renowned bibliophile and dermatologist, dedication is to P. G. Wodehouse. less strikingly individual. And your greatest Lawrence M. Solomon (1931-2014), with his virtue is being not quite like anybody else.” bookplate to the front pastedown. [ 83487] £2,750 The Homecoming won the annual short story [ 108297] £200 contest run by Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine BOUCHER, Anthony. in June 1952. Although unmarked as such, this copy is from the library of the renowned The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars. bibliophile and dermatologist, Lawrence M. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1940 Solomon (1931-2014). Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine black, Sherlock [ 108299] £275

click on the images above to go direct to our website BUCHAN, John. BUTLER, Ellis Parker. CAIN, James M. The Thirty-Nine Steps. Philo Gubb. Correspondence-School Mildred Pierce. Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1915 Detective. With illustrations. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1941 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company; Octavo. Original green cloth, decoration and titles to board in black. Housed in a custom brown quarter cloth Cambridge: The Riverside Press, 1918 spine gilt, top edge stained green. With the dust jacket. solander box. Small bookplate to front pastedown of Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles and pictorial Bookplate to front pastedown, spine a little rolled upper J. L. Weir. Spine gently rolled and slightly faded; an decoration to spine and front board blocked in black. board very lightly marked but a very good copy in the exceptional, fresh copy. With the dust jacket. Frontispiece with tissue guard rubbed and lightly chipped dust jacket. First edition, first impression. From the library and 19 plates. An exceptionally fresh copy in excellent First edition, first printing. Signed by the author of the renowned bibliophile and dermatologist, condition in a toned and slightly chipped jacket with 2 on the front free endpaper. Lawrence M. Solomon (1931-2014), with his small tape repairs to the verso. [ 49365] £1,500 bookplate to the inner cover of the solander box. First edition, first printing. [ 108133] £3,000 [ 91629] £2,750

click on the images above to go direct to our website CAIN, James M. CANNAN, Joanna. CARR, John Dickson. The Postman Always Rings Twice. Frightened Angels. The Crooked Hinge. Jonathan Cape, London, 1934 London: Ltd, 1936 New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1938 Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in blue. With Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front board black morocco, titles to spine gilt, inner dentelles gilt, the dust jacket. Some foxing to edges, boards stained; a grey. With the dust jacket. Bookplate and ownership black coated endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine copy. good copy in the jacket with faded spine. signature to front pastedown. Extremities slightly First UK Edition, First Impression. First edition, first impression of this rubbed; an excellent copy in the superb jacket. psychological crime novel, set in an English First edition, first printing of this Dr Gideon Fell [ 31092] £1,250 school. Cannan is perhaps better known today mystery. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone title. for her three daughters Josephine, Diana and [ 99083] £2,750 Christine Pullein-Thompson, who wrote a number of fictional equestrian books which were extremely popular with girls. The publisher’s file copy with their stamp to the front panel of the jacket, the front pastedown and the title page. [ 95417] £125

click on the images above to go direct to our website CARR, John Dickson. CARR, John Dickson. CHANDLER, Raymond. The Ghosts’ High Noon. Till Death Do Us Part. A Dr. Fell Mystery The Big Sleep. New York: Harper & Row, publishers, 1969 Story. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939 Octavo. Original grey boards, light grey cloth backstrip, New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1944 Octavo. Original orange cloth lettered in blue, top edge spine lettered in grey, publisher’s device to front Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in dark blue. blue. With the dust jacket. Housed in a blue quarter board in silver, top edge blue, others untrimmed, grey With the pictorial dust jacket. Extremities lightly morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Light endpapers. With the dust jacket. Gift inscription to rubbed, bottom corner of rear board slightly bumped. An rubbing to extremities, slight dampstaining to bottom front free endpaper. Spine rolled, foot of spine bumped. excellent copy in a rubbed and edge-chipped jacket with and fore edges of text block, faint tanning to endpapers, An excellent copy in the dust jacket slightly rubbed and several tape repairs to the verso. else bright and fresh. An excellent copy in a lightly creased at spine-ends. rubbed jacket with very minor chipping and one small First edition, first printing, published dampstain to rear panel. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the simultaneously in the UK by Hamilton. author “Yours sincerely, John Dickson Carr” First edition, first printing, of Chandler’s first on the title-page. The Ghosts’ High Noon was [ 104439] £75 book. Carr’s third-to-last novel and his second set in [ 89888] £12,500 New Orleans, following Papa Là-bas in 1968. [ 107111] £475

click on the images above to go direct to our website CHANDLER, Raymond. CHANDLER, Raymond. CHANDLER, Raymond. Farewell My Lovely. The Little Sister. . New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940 London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949 London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950 Octavo. Original salmon cloth, titles to board and spine Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine gilt. With in blue, top edge blue. With the dust jacket. Spine pictorial dust jacket. Dust jacket slightly rubbed at top the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed gently rolled, extremities a little rubbed. An excellent of spine with a couple of very small chips, price-clipped, jacket with some nicks and short splits repaired to the copy in a lightly rubbed and very slightly edge-chipped interior clean and bright, a very good copy. verso with tape. jacket with slight tanning to edges of flaps and the verso First edition, first impression. Precedes the first First book edition, first printing of the author’s and light dampstaining to foot of spine panel. US edition. influential essay on detective fiction, which First edition, first printing, of Chandler’s second was first published in the Atlantic Monthly in [ 47791] £2,250 novel. December 1944, along with a selection of his short stories. [ 89889] £4,250 [ 72868] £750

click on the images above to go direct to our website CHESTERTON, G. K. edges gilt. With eight full page illustrations by Sydney First edition, first impression, of the author’s Seymour Lucas. A fine copy. first novel, signed by him on the verso of The Incredulity of Father Brown. First Edition, First Impression. the frontispiece. The book is a set in London: and Company, Ltd, 1926 an alternative version of London, which the Octavo. Original black cloth, rule and titles to upper [ 29321] £1,375 randomly selected king decides on a whim to board and spine in red. With the pictorial dust jacket. divide into separate boroughs, each with their own customs and at war against each other, Ownership inscription to front free endpaper, spotting to CHESTERTON, G. K. edges. An excellent copy in the bright dust jacket, lightly on the model of city states in Renaissance marked, and rubbed to the extremities. The Napoleon of Notting Hill. With Italy. “Maisie Ward has said [of the novel’s two First edition, first impression. seven full-page illustrations by W. protagonists, King Auberon and the provost Graham Robertson and a Map of the of Notting Hill] that they ‘are the most living [ 76338] £1,750 individuals in any of his novels—just because

Seat of War. they are the two lobes of his brain individualized’ London: The Bodley Head, 1904 (Ward, 1958 edn, 127). That is to say, they CHESTERTON, G. K. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine and front board embody his opposed sides of profound gravity The Innocence of Father Brown. lettered in black, vignettes blocked in red and black to and exuberant fooling, which often united in a London, Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1911 spine and front board, top edge grey, others untrimmed. pun or an arresting paradox.” (ODNB). Frontispiece and 7 plates. Bookplate of Brian Fenwick Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in full [ 96845] £1,750 Smith to front free endpaper. Spine rolled, cloth a little red morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, rule to soiled, internally fine; an excellent copy. boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, all

click on the images above to go direct to our website CHRISTIE, Agatha. to edges and some to margins of early and late leaves; her authorial voice. During the difficult period a very good copy in the chipped and creased but overall of the breakdown of her first marriage, Fisher

Death Comes As the End bright dust jacket. was Christie’s only friend and confidante. They London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1945 First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the remained close throughout their lives. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black. With author on the front free endpaper, “Carlo, from [ 75776] £3,500 the dust jacket. Ends of spine very slightly faded, a Missus”. From the library of Charlotte (“Carlo”) few spots to edges of text block. An excellent copy in Fisher (1895–1976), Christie’s secretary and early the rubbed and nicked jacket with a few short splits and amanuensis with whom Christie wrote several CHRISTIE, Agatha. light spots. major early titles. The method was described by Sparkling Cyanide First edition, first impression. Christie in her autobiography: “Charlotte and I sat down opposite each other, she with her notebook London: For the Crime Club by Collins, 1945 [ 80743] £675 and pencil. I stared unhappily at the mantelpiece, Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine in black. and began uttering a few tentative sentences. With the dust jacket. Small bookplate. Slight fading CHRISTIE, Agatha. They sounded dreadful. I could not say more than at ends of spine. An excellent copy in the rubbed and a word without hesitating and stopping. Nothing creased jacket with some nicks and fraying at the ends The Hound of Death. And other stories. I said sounded natural. We persisted for an hour. of the spine panel. London: Odhams Press Limited, 1933 Long afterwards Carlo told me that she herself First UK edition, first impression. Originally Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine in black. had been dreading the moment when literary published in the US in the same year under the With the supplied dust jacket. Spine faded and rolled, work should begin.” By this process Christie - or title Remembered Death. “Missus” as she was known to Fisher - would find covers unevenly faded, extremities faded, with spotting [ 80498] £750

click on the images above to go direct to our website CHRISTIE, Agatha. CHRISTIE, Agatha. CHRISTIE, Agatha. Murder on the Orient Express. The Mysterious Affair at Styles. Poirot Investigates. London: for The Crime Club by W. Collins Sons London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1921 London: The Bodley Head, 1924 & Co. Ltd, 1934 Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in blue Octavo. Original yellow cloth, titles and geometric Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and front morocco, titles to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to border to spine and upper board in black, black top- board in black. Ownership signature to front free boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, marbled endpapers, gilt stain. With the dust jacket. Housed in a red solander endpaper, Times Book Club ticket to rear pastedown. edges. A fine copy. box by the Chelsea Bindery. 14 page publisher’s ads at Spine gently rolled and a little faded, extremities faintly First edition of ’s first book, rare. rear. A stunning copy in the dust jacket with a single rubbed, one tiny waterstain to rear board, internally minor chip and some trivial further wear. Wonderful. [ 100708] £5,000 very crisp. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. A review copy First edition, first impression. with the publisher’s slip laid in. Copies of the earlier works of Agatha Christie are notoriously [ 94811] £4,500 uncommon in dust jacket. The ones of Bodley Head vintage are each known in only tiny handfuls of examples. Indeed we know of just two or maybe three other copies of Poirot Investigates ever to have surfaced. All the more remarkable then that this copy is so beautifully preserved. [ 77457] £75,000

click on the images above to go direct to our website CHRISTIE, Agatha. Crime Collection. London: , 1970 24 volumes, octavo. Recent tan morocco, crimson and green morocco labels, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. An excellent set. A complete set of this well known collected edition, with three stories per volume. It includes all published crime novels up to 1970. [ 102627] £6,750

click on the image above to go direct to our website (CLARKE, Harry.) POE, Edgar Allan. COLLINS, Wilkie. Tales of Mystery & Imagination. The Woman in White. London: George G. Harrap & Co., 1919 London: Samson Low, Son & Co., 1860 Quarto (285 × 200 mm). Original vellum with titles 3 volumes, duodecimo (286 × 120 mm). Finely bound by and illustrations to front board and spine gilt, top edge J. Kelley in black half calf, spines with dark red morocco gilt, others uncut. Frontispiece with tissue guard and 23 title labels and gilt with elaborately tooled fleurons, plates in black and white by Harry Clarke. Bookplate to marbled sides, edges and endpapers. Bound without the front pastedown. Boards and spine lightly soiled, boards advertisements. Small chip to the title label of volume slightly bowed, and a little minor spotting to contents; 1 and also from the calf at the spine of volume 2; front an excellent copy. hinge and lower joint of volume 3 respectively cracked Signed limited edition, number 71 of 170 copies and starting, marbled sides generally rubbed, some light signed by the illustrator. spotting to early and late leaves. Still a very good set overall. [ 99370] £2,750 First edition, first impression, of Collins’s landmark masterpiece of detective fiction. [ 79730] £2,500

click on the images above to go direct to our website COLLINS, Wilkie. The Works. New York: Peter Fenelon, [c.1890] 30 volumes, octavo (183 × 114 mm). Recent dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spines, raised bands, single rule to boards, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, other edges sprinkled. Frontispiece portrait and further illustrations throughout. Some occasional light foxing, an excellent set. Only collected edition, rare, of the collected works of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889), novelist, playwright, friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens. A handsomely bound set. [ 99778] £8,500

click on the image above to go direct to our website CONRAD, Joseph. Conrad’s major phase, beginning with The CORBETT, James. Nigger of the “Narcissus” (1897), taking in Lord

Under Western Eyes. Jim, Youth, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Death—by Appointment. London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1911 Agent, and “The Secret Sharer”. “With Under London: Herbert Jenkins, [1945] Octavo. Original red linen-grain cloth, spine lettered Western Eyes he even dared to challenge (and Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine black. With and decorated in gilt. Custom red morocco-backed arguably surpassed) Dostoyevsky’s Crime and the dust jacket. Spine gently rolled; an excellent, bright slipcase and chemise, spine lettered in gilt. Spine lightly Punishment” (ODNB). copy in the jacket with rubbed extremities. faded, untrimmed edges of text-block a little spotted, an [ 48397] £17,500 First edition, first impression one of Corbett’s excellent copy. later mysteries. First edition, presentation copy to John [ 108245] £75 Galsworthy and his wife, Ada, inscribed on the front free endpaper, “To Jack and Ada with love from J. C. 1911”. Conrad first met Galsworthy in 1893 on the sailing-ship Torrens. Galsworthy, bound for Cape Town, boarded the ship at Adelaide and encountered its first mate, the future novelist, angry and black with coal dust; the two writers became lifelong friends. Under Western Eyes is the last book in the astonishing sequence of novels that constituted

click on the images above to go direct to our website CORNWELL, Patricia. First editions, first printings. Each copy signed CORNWELL, Patricia. on the title page by the author. The Cornwell/

Complete set of the series. Scarpetta bookplate is loosely inserted into the . Postmortem; ; All That first title. Also included with this set is a 14 karat New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1990 Remains; Cruel and Unusual; The Body gold Scarpetta lapel pin. This set includes the Octavo. Original red boards, black cloth backstrip, titles Farm; From Potter’s Field; ; cook book and all 18 Scarpetta novels published to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. A fine copy in the Unnatural Exposure; ; up to 2010. jacket. Black Notice; The Last Precinct; Blow [ 62710] £5,000 First edition, first printing. Fly; ; Predator; Book of the Dead; [ 74281] £750 Scarpetta; The Scarpetta Factor; Port Mortuary; [together with] Food to Die For: Secrets from Kay Scarpetta’s Kitchen. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, (and Putnams), 1990–2010 19 volumes, octavo and quarto. Original cloth backed boards. With the dust jackets. One title a trifle shaken, a few corners lightly bumped, some minuscule rubbing to one or two dust jackets but an absolutely exceptional set in the jackets - all entirely unread and remarkably fresh.

click on the images above to go direct to our website [BERKELEY, Anthony] COX, A. B. they are concerned with the writing of mystery CRISPIN, Edmund. and detective fiction. Jugged Journalism. The Case of the Gilded Fly. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925 [ 31316] £500 London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944 Octavo. Original green cloth, title to boards and spine Octavo. Original green cloth, gilt lettered spine (rubbed in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. With 32 CRISPIN, Edmund. to white). With the dust jacket. Spine of jacket toned illustrations by George Morrow. Mild partial browning and a little rubbed, internally a hint of foxing otherwise to the endpapers, spine just leaning a little but an Buried for Pleasure. an excellent copy. excellent copy in the slightly nicked and tanned dust London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1948 First edition, first impression of the author’s jacket. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With debut novel, written when he was still an First edition, first impression. Anthony Berkeley the dust jacket. Bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown. undergraduate, and introducing eccentric Cox wrote numerous and particularly highly Spine rolled, lightly rubbed at extremities. An excellent amateur sleuth Gervase Fen. “Crispin’s work regarded works of detective fiction under two copy in the rubbed and tanned jacket with small chips is marked by a highly individual sense of light pen names: as Anthony Berkeley, he took the from the corners. comedy, and by a great flair for verbal deception British Golden Age detective novel to fresh First edition, first impression. rather in the Christie manner” (Julian Symonds, heights, while as Francis Iles, he was a pioneer of Bloody Murder, From the Detective Story to the Crime psychological suspense fiction with a seasoning [ 70333] £225 Novel: A History, 1973, p. 152). of cynical wit. The pieces gathered together here [ 98278] £975 are examples of his journalistic side. Largely

click on the images above to go direct to our website [MONTGOMERY, Bruce; as] CRISPIN, gilt-lettered brown morocco spine-label. Bookplate DEIGHTON, Len. of Lawrence Solomon, noted American physician and Edmund (pseud.) collector of detective fiction, to solander box front The IPCRESS File. Holy Disorders. panel verso. Printed sheet of borrowing rules for Hays’ London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1962 London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd., 1945 Circulating Library of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (150 Octavo. Original orange boards, spine lettered in gilt. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the × 100 mm) laid in within taped acetate jacket; library With the dust jacket. Small spot to top edge, head of dust jacket. Spine lettering a little dull but an unusually bequest plate to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled and spine very lightly bumped, margins of free endpapers nice copy in the rather tanned dust jacket. sunned, corners very faintly rubbed, contents slightly tanned. An exceptionally bright copy in the dust jacket toned, small portion of damp-staining to rear free with very gentle toning along the spine. First edition, first impression. The author’s endpaper. An excellent copy in the dust jacket slightly second novel. First edition, first impression of Deighton’s first nicked on the spine and a touch rubbed along the joints. book, one of 4,000 copies printed. Raymond [ 36170] £460 First edition, first impression. An Inspector Hawkey’s striking dust jacket, much admired by French mystery, published in the US as The Deighton himself, “went against the prejudice Futile Alibi later the same year. Scarce in the CROFTS, Freeman Wills. of the book trade at the time in that it was dust jacket. The bequest plate, dated August monochromatic, used discreet typography and The End of Andrew Harrison. 1938, identifies the donor as Mrs Cole Porter a photographic rather than a drawn illustration”. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1938 and the institution as the public library at Dark Jackets carrying no reviews such as the present Harbor, Maine, though neither the composer example are often referred to as being in the Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board nor his wife Linda Lee Thomas appears to have first state, though Milward-Oliver makes no lettered in black, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. had any connection with the area. mention of this. Housed in a custom brown cloth solander box with a [ 107919] £975 [ 107043] £1,500

click on the images above to go direct to our website DOYLE, Arthur Conan. DU MAURIER, Daphne. DUKE, Winifred. The White Company.In three volumes. Rebecca. Skin for Skin. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1891 London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1938 London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935 3 volumes, crown octavo. Original red-brown cloth, Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in dark green Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in green. front covers with black rule and bands at head and tail morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised bands, With the dust jacket. Edges and endpapers foxed. An and titled black, spines with bands and rules in black single rule to boards, twin rule to turn-ins, burgundy excellent coy in the bright dust jacket with a sunned and lettered gilt, grey floral endpapers. Housed in a endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. spine and two short closed tears to the rear panel. burgundy cloth slipcase with ribbon by the Chelsea First edition, first impression. First edition, first impression, the Gollancz Bindery. Sporadic occurrences of scattered light foxing, archive copy with their ink-stamp to the [ 77756] £1,375 vol. II’s spine lightly vertically creased, still a very good front panel of the dust jacket and to the front copy, the cloth bright and fresh. pastedown. A scarce work of detective fiction, First edition in book form, one of 750 copies incorporating elements of true crime, scarce issued of Doyle’s medieval romance, “a with just nine copies in libraries worldwide, remarkable piece of research on fourteenth- and exceedingly hard to find in anything century English mercenary warfare in France approaching this condition. and Spain” (ODNB). [ 106665] £225 [ 37588] £4,500

click on the images above to go direct to our website ECO, Umberto. ELLIS, Bret Easton. FREEMAN, R. Austin. The Name of the Rose.Translated from American Psycho. The Singing Bone. the Italian by William Weaver. London: Picador, 1991 London: Hodder & Stoughton, [1912] London: Secker and Warburg, 1983 Octavo. Original black cloth backed black boards, titles Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt and to Octavo. Original light brown boards with natural linen to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. An excellent copy front board in black. Cloth rubbed, dulled, and bumped spine, decoration to front cover and titles to spine in with mild sunning to spine. at extremities, some faint marks to cloth, spine faded, bronze. With the dust jacket. Light rubbing to foot of First UK edition, first printing. This is the faint marginal toning to contents. A very good copy. spine, dust jacket lightly faded to spine. first hardback edition of the title, originally First edition, first impression, the first state of First UK edition, first impression. Eco’s first published in the US as a paperback in 1991. the text with the misprinted quotation marks on the title page and the second state of the novel. [ 104621] £650 binding, with black lettering rather than gilt. [ 68142] £375 Presentation copy inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “Best wishes to R. C. Barrington Partridge from R. Austin Freeman”. Freeman was a pioneer of the inverted detective story, in which the identity of the killer is known from the beginning, and four of the five stories collected in this volume are constructed in such a manner. [ 80915] £625

click on the images above to go direct to our website [ROWLING, J. K.] GALBRAITH, GARDNER, Erle Stanley. John Glaister (1892-1971), whose achievements as a forensic scientist are the object of a two-paragraph Robert. The Case of the Horrified Heirs. hommage at the end of the Foreword, succeeded his The Cuckoo’s Calling. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1964 father in the Regius Chair of Forensic Science at the London: Sphere, 2013 Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine and front University of Glasgow and was well-known for his Octavo. Original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt. board in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed dramatic appearances at court as an expert witness. With the illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy. in a black morocco-backed solander box with a facsimile As attested by the certificate mentioned by Gardner of the front panel of the dust jacket pasted on the front this copy was the very first to roll off the press. First edition, first impression of Rowling’s first cover. Spine a little sunned at head and tail, head lightly pseudonymous novel, and signed on the title [ 91710] £3,500 crumpled, very faint white mark to lower joint of front page as Galbraith. The first printing of the first board, light dampstain to lower gutter of endpapers. edition ran to at least 1,500 copies, with a cover GARDNER, Erle Stanley. An excellent copy in a slightly edge-chipped and rippled which features a quote from Val McDermid, while jacket with faint dampstaining to the verso. The Case of the Stuttering Bishop. the back cover has quotes from Mark Billingham and Alex Gray. The copyright page does not have a First edition, certified first copy to be printed. New York: William Morrow and Company 1936 number line but simply states “First published in Dedication copy inscribed by the author to his Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and front board Great Britain in 2013 by Sphere”.It is thought that close friend, scientist John Glaister on the front lettered in red, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. With the Rowling signed 250 copies of the first edition for free endpaper: “To my friend, John Glaister, D. dust jacket. Spine gently rolled, edges toned and slightly promotional purposes before the secret of her Sc., M.D., F.R.S.E., this first copy ever to come spotted. An excellent copy in the price-clipped, toned and authorship was revealed, some three months from the printers and binders (see certificate on rubbed dust jacket slightly chipped at spine-ends. after publication. the following page). With all good wishes, yours, First edition, first printing. Erle Stanley Gardner, September 1964”. Professor [ 101927] £3,000 [ 107114] £375 click on the images above to go direct to our website GREEN, Anna Katherine. written by a woman – “one of the true historical The Continental Op; Return of the milestones of the genre” (Haycroft, Murder for Continental Op; Hammett Homicides; The Filigree Ball: Being a Full and True Pleasure, page 93). Uncommon inscribed. Account of the Solution of the Mystery Dead Yellow Women; Nightmare Town; [ 83721] £1,500 Concerning the Jeffrey-Moore Affair. The Big Knock-Over; They Can Only Illustrated by C. M. Relyea. Hang You Once; Creeping Siamese; GRISHAM, John. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobs-Merrill Company, 1903 Women in the Dark; A Man Named Thin. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, titles A Time to Kill. New York: Lawrence E. Spivak; Joseph W. and pictorial design to upper board in red and gilt. Spine New York: Wynwood Press, 1989 Ferman, 1943–62 rolled and toned, cloth a little rubbed at extremities, rear Octavo. Original orange boards with burgundy cloth 12 works, octavo. Original coloured wrappers. Housed in hinge cracked, occasional faint spotting in margins of spine, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Near a blue slipcase edged with black morocco. Contents toned, contents. An excellent copy. fine in near fine dust jacket, price clipped. a little rubbing to extremities and some very minor wear First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author First edition, first impression. to spine ends; an excellent set in the bright wrappers. to American First Lady Edith Roosevelt on the front [ 37695] £1,400 First editions, first printings, as well as the reissues free endpaper, “Mrs. Roosevelt, Compliments of the first two volumes in the series: The Big of Anna K. Green Rohlfs. March 23rd 1903”. Knock-Over (reissue of $106,000 Blood Money), Additionally inscribed by Mrs. Roosevelt to her HAMMETT, Dashiell. and They Can Only Hang You Once (reissue of The son on the front pastedown, “For Kermit from [A set of 12 works of Hammet’s Adventures of Sam Spade). A lovely set of Hammett’s first twelve books of collected short fiction. Mother”. Anna Katherine Green’s first novel, collected short fiction:]$106,000 Blood The Leavenworth Case, was the first American [ 94424] £3,250 detective novel and the first detective fiction Money; The Adventures of Sam Spade;

click on the images above to go direct to our website HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1930 Octavo. Original grey cloth, falcon motif to upper board in blue, titles and geometric design to spine in black and blue, top edge stained blue. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box. Hollywood bookseller’s ticket to front pastedown, a superb copy in the very lightly tanned and marked dust jacket with very minor loss at the tips. In common with all issued copies the jacket is price-clipped by the publishers who apparently revised the price at the time of publication. Only a couple of examples of unclipped jacket are extant both would seem to be file or proof copies. First edition, first printing. An exceptionally nice copy of one of the greatest thrillers ever written. [ 80717] £60,000

click on the image above to go direct to our website HAMMETT, Dashiell, ed. HEPPENSTALL, Rayner, & Michael HIGHSMITH, Patricia. Modern Tales of Horror. Innes. The Talented Mr Ripley. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932 Three Tales of Hamlet. New York: Coward-McCann, 1955 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in orange. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1950 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in green. With the dust jacket. Cloth a little mottled, spotting to Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. With the dust jacket. Spine ends and corners slightly edges of text block, contents tanned. A very good copy in With the dust jacket. Very lightly rubbed at bottom rubbed and bumped, rear board gently bowed. An the rubbed and partially tanned jacket with some nicks edges and tail of spine. An excellent copy in a faintly excellent copy in a bright jacket with lightly sunned and short splits and a small chip from the head of the rubbed jacket. spine panel and a few minor nicks. spine panel. First edition, first impression, of the authors’ First edition, first printing of the first Ripley First UK edition, first impression, originally three short pieces original written as radio plays book. published in the US under the title Creeps By and intended to “solve the Hamlet problem in [ 103849] £2,500 Night. Uncommon in the dust jacket. This orthodox detective fashion” (front flat blurb). volume, edited and with an introduction by Dashiell Hammett, collects eighteen stories [ 89897] £175 including “A Rose for Emily” by William Faulkner, “The House” by André Maurois, and “Mr. Arcularis” by Conrad Aiken, “The Music of Erich Zann” by H. P. Lovecraft. [ 86452] £875

click on the images above to go direct to our website [BERKELEY, Anthony; as] ILES, [BERKELEY, Anthony; as] ILES, INNES, Michael. Francis. Francis. Death at the President’s Lodging. Before the Fact. Malice Aforethought.The Story of a London: Gollancz, 1936 London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1932 Commonplace Crime. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in red. With Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine in green. London: Mundanus Ltd, Victor Gollancz the dust jacket. Some trivial spotting to the fore edge, With the dust jacket. A few very faint marks to cloth, Publisher, 1931 spine cocked but an excellent copy in the little tanned and mild partial tanning to endpapers. An excellent copy in Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine in black. faded dust jacket with a few short tears and a little chip the spine-tanned and dust soiled but remarkably intact With the dust jacket. Sine somewhat rolled, very at the foot of the spine panel. jacket with two very small sections of loss from the top faint fading along top edge of boards, spotting to edges First edition, first impression. of Innes’s edge (one 3×65mm and one 2×40mm) and otherwise but internally clean; an excellent copy in the mildly landmark first detective novel which introduced only very light rubbing to ends and corners. spine-tanned jacket with very faint dust-soiling, some his long serving detective John Appleby. First edition, first impression; rare in the jacket, creasing, and small chips to ends and corners. [ 62085] £3,250 which prints Gollancz’s sensational list of the First edition, first impression; the rare hardback possible identities of “Francis Iles”, including: issue (shortly after, but much scarcer than, E. M. Forster, R. Austin Freeman, Patrick the paperback issue of the same year). Dennis Hamilton, Aldous Huxley, Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Wheatley’s copy, with his illustrated bookplate Eden Phillpotts, Osbert Sitwell, Hugh Walpole to the front pastedown. and H. G. Wells. [ 86220] £6,250 [ 86219] £7,500

click on the images above to go direct to our website JAMES, P. D. JAMES, P. D. Quarto. Original limp vellum, title to spine gilt, silk ties (broken). Printed in red and black with elaborate woodcut

Cover Her Face. Innocent Blood. title page and woodcut initials and borders throughout. London, Faber and Faber, 1962 London: Faber and Faber, 1980 Bookplate of the celebrated book collector William Harris Octavo. Finely bound by The Chelsea Bindery in royal Octavo. Original red boards, titles to spine gilt. With the Arnold. Lightly rubbed, a very good copy. blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine, raised dust jacket. Contents a little toned. An excellent copy One of 250 copies on paper. Swinburne was a bands, single rule to boards, inner dentelles, marbled in the jacket. warm admirer of the Kelmscott Press books. endpapers, gilt edges. A fine copy. First edition, first impression. Inscribed by the “When Atalanta (which was first published in First edition, first impression. The author’s author on the front free endpaper, “to Daphne 1865) was reprinted by Morris, Swinburne wrote scarce first book, introducing Detective from Phyllis with love. P. D. James”. Daphne to him that it was ‘certainly one of the loveliest Inspector Dalgliesh. was the wife of George Spicer, Faber’s chief examples of even your incomparable press’” representative for the South of England and a (quoted in Peterson). The Greek type used [ 60586] £1,650 stalwart of the company for many years. for the quotations and dedicatory poems was designed by Selwyn Image, with the technical [ 69587] £500 assistance of Emery Walker, the only instance in the Kelmscott Press books of Morris using a (KELMSCOTT PRESS.) SWINBURNE, type not designed by himself. Algernon Charles. [ 82368] £3,750 Atalanta in Calydon:A Tragedy. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1894

click on the images above to go direct to our website LE CARRÉ, John. LE CARRÉ, John. LE CARRÉ, John. The Looking-Glass War. A Perfect Spy. Smiley’s People. London: Heinemann, 1965 London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986 London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980 Octavo. Original black cloth boards, titles to spine in Octavo. Original blue cloth-backed blue boards, titles to Octavo. Original cream wrappers, titles to front cover silver. With the dust jacket. Spine bumped, owner’s spine gilt, red endpapers. With the dust jacket. A fine black. With the trial dust jacket. Spine rolled, contents name to front free endpaper, dust jacket faded to spine, copy. toned. A very good copy in the rubbed wrappers and nicked and torn to corners. First edition, first impression. Presentation slightly faded jacket. First edition, first impression. Inscribed on copy inscribed on the dedication page from the Uncorrected proof copy. The final novel of the the title page by the author “For Gwen Davis, dedicatee of the book: “To R. with love from Karla trilogy, following Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy with my warmest wishes, John Le Carré 13 ii 99, R. (as above).” A Perfect Spy is le Carré’s most and The Honourable Schoolboy. London.” autobiographical book. As the author himself [ 101700] £500 has admitted, a large part of the novel is a thinly [ 79370] £500 disguised account of his own early life. [ 107030] £150

click on the images above to go direct to our website LE CARRÉ, John. LEROUX, Gaston. LOWNDES, Mrs. Belloc. The Spy Who Came In From the Cold. The Phantom of the Opera. The Lodger. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963 London: Mills and Boon Limited, 1911 London: Methuen & Co. Ltd, 1913 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in black Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front dust jacket. Small patch of fading to head of spine, a morocco, onlay of a mask to front board, title to spine board gilt. Spine rolled and toned, extremities rubbed, little spotting to edges of text block, internally clean. An in silver, black marbled endpapers, silver edges. Housed bottom corner of rear board bumped, a few scattered excellent copy in the bright jacket with a hint of rubbing in a black flat cloth solander box by The Chelsea Bindery spots to endleaves and endpapers. An excellent copy. to extremities. with the spine lettered in silver. An excellent copy. First edition, first impression. Mary Belloc First edition, first impression of Le Carré’s third First UK edition, first printing in English of Lowndes’s classic novel, which tells the story of book. The definitive Cold War novel, it won Le this mystery thriller which formed the basis for a couple in 1880s London who suspect that their Carré the 1964 Somerset Maugham Award and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical and several film lodger is Jack The Ripper, has long been ranked secured his reputation as a master of the spy adaptations. In his day Leroux was considered amongst the finest of detective fiction, earning thriller. “the foremost of the modern French writers of it several stage and screen adaptations, most detective fiction.” famously by Alfred Hitchcock in 1927. [ 108225] £2,250 [ 93931] £3,750 [ 92881] £875

click on the images above to go direct to our website MACDONALD, Philip. MARSH, Ngaio. [FREEMAN, Kathleen.] Mary Fitt. The Link. Black Beech and Honeydew. An Death Starts a Rumour. London: W. Collins Sons & Co Ltd 1930 Autobiography. London: Nicholson and Watson, 1940 Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front London: Collins, 1966 Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black. With board in black. In the dust jacket supplied from the Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine gilt, brown the dust jacket. Small portion of pale mottling to head second edition. Ownership inscription to front free endpapers. With the dust jacket. With 13 photographic of spine, narrow strip of tanning along bottom edges of endpaper. Spine gently rolled, faint finger-marks to illustrations. An excellent copy in a jacket with a few boards, light spotting to top edge of text-block. A very front board, edges slightly foxed, very mild spotting to tiny chips at tips of spine panel and minor silverfish good copy in the slightly toned and rubbed jacket with a endleaves. A very good copy in the toned dust jacket. damage to flap folds. few small nicks. First edition, first impression. A detective story, First edition, first impression. Inscribed by First edition, first impression. Kathleen published under the Crime Club imprint. the author to Australian broadcaster Gerald Freeman was a classical scholar who used the pseudonym Mary Fitt for her Inspector Mallet [ 97290] £125 Lyons on the front flyleaf: “For Gerald Lyons, from Ngaio Marsh”. Lyons interviewed Marsh series of detective novels; she also wrote fiction for Australian television while the author was under the names Stuart Mary Wick, Clare St. promoting her autobiography. Laid in are his Donat and Caroline Cory while retaining her notes for the interview, typed on four leaves. own name for her academic publications. [ 104289] £225 [ 107244] £475

click on the images above to go direct to our website MITCHELL, Gladys. Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to upper board and who notably translated works by Tolstoy, spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket. Housed in Moravia, and others. There are very light pencil

Dead Men’s Morris. A Detective Story. a quarter morocco black solander box by the Chelsea annotations to one page which would appear to London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1936 Bindery. Endpapers somewhat browned, spine very be explication of idiomatic phrases. gently rolled but an excellent copy in the frayed and Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine silver, yellow [ 76068] £15,000 patterned endpapers. With the dust jacket. Spine rubbed dust jacket with loss at the ends of the spine panel rolled, edges lightly foxed; an excellent, bright copy in and a small triangular chip from the centre of the spine the superb, unclipped jacket, slightly nicked and with panel. With some neat professional repair to the folds. NEWMAN, Bernard. sunned spine. First UK edition, first impression, first issue Second Front-First Spy. First edition, first impression of one of Mitchell’s in the black cloth. Nabokov’s second English earlier books, with the jacket in exceptionally publication was put out by the small imprint London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1944 good condition. John Long who specialized in unconventional, Octavo. Original blue cloth. With the dust jacket. In the quirky books, especially mystery, fantasy, and dust jacket with fading to the spine. A very good copy. [ 99248] £3,750 crime novels. They had previously published First edition, first impression. Nabokov’s Camera Obscura with very little [ 108639] £65 (NABOKOV, Vladimir.) NABOKOFF- success and fared no better with this. Both titles were remaindered in cheaper bindings SIRIN, Vladimir. and copies of either in dust jacket are rare. Of Despair. Translated from the Russian by Despair there are thought to be a mere handful. the author. With the ownership signature of Karin de London: John Long, Limited, 1937 Laval, dated 1937. Laval was a Swedish writer

click on the images above to go direct to our website PHILLPOTTS, Eden. tale of theft and attempted murder, relying a bit common experience, the scarcest. We have too strongly on the long arm of coincidence, but handled just one other copy in a slightly My Adventure in The Flying Scotsman. peopled with richly Victorian characters caught in defective dust jacket. This example is the best A Romance of London and North- the fell clutch of melodramatic circumstance.” we know. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone.

Western Railway Shares. [ 79769] £1,500 [ 95260] £22,500 London: James Hogg and Sons, 1888 Small octavo. Printed wraps laid down on card boards, QUEEN, Ellery [pseud. of Frederic as issued. Housed in a brown cloth folding case. Covers QUEEN, Ellery [pseud. of Frederic lightly rubbed and soiled, half title and rear endpapers Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee]. Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee]. tanned. A relatively sound copy in good condition. Ellery Queen Omnibus. The Roman Hat Mystery. First edition, first impression, of the author’s scarce London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1934 New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1929 first book. Queen’s Quorum 13 says; “In 1888, Eden Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and Phillpotts’s first book marked the beginning of one the dust jacket. Slightly foxed to edges, a superb copy spine in black. With the dust jacket. Housed in a red of the most prolific writing careers of our time. . . jacket that has a sunned spine. the cornerstone honour should be accorded to Mr. quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. First UK edition, first impression of this Phillpott’s maiden mystery, the thin, fragile book Ownership inscription to front pastedown but a superb collection of detective stories. First published in with the ‘rainbow’ stamping which is seldom copy in the dust jacket. the US in 1930. The publisher’s retained copy with found even in the so-called complete collections First edition, first printing of the authors’ their stamp to the front panel of the dust jacket, of Eden Phillpott’s work. Modern readers will first book. Of all the first books by American the front pastedown and the front free endpaper. undoubtedly agree that MY ADVENTURES IN golden age crime writers (Stout, Carr, Gardner, THE FLYING SCOTSMAN is an old fashioned Chandler, Hammett, etc.), this has been, in [ 93717] £475

click on the images above to go direct to our website QUEEN, Ellery [pseud. of Frederic QUEEN, Ellery [pseud. of Frederic [COOK, Robert William Arthur.] Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee]. Dannay & Manfred Bennington Lee]. RAYMOND, Derek. The Dragon’s Teeth. A problem in The Misadventures of . He Died With His Eyes Open. deduction. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1944 London: Secker & Warburg, 1984 London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1939 Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt. With Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With board in black on red ground, top edge dyed red. With the price-clipped dust jacket. Contents lightly toned. the dust jacket. An excellent copy in the jacket with a the dust jacket. Frontispiece. Just a little rubbed and An excellent copy in the jacket with mild rippling to sunned spine. faded at the extremities, upper corner bumped, partial lamination, a contemporary price sticker to the front toning to free endpapers. An excellent, fresh copy in the flap and faint foxing to edges of flaps. First UK edition, first impression of this mystery lightly rubbed jacket with a few tiny nicks and toning to novel featuring Ellery Queen. First published in First edition, first impression, of the author’s the spine panel and lower panel. the US earlier the same year, and reissued in first novel in the Factory series. The Factory 1954 under the title The Virgin Heiresses. The First edition, first printing. A collection of novels are narrated by an unnamed sergeant publisher’s retained copy with their stamp to thirty-three stories about Sherlock Holmes detective working for the Factory, a fictional the title page. written by writers other than Conan Doyle. The branch of the London Metropolitan Police, contributors include Vincent Starrett, Agatha which investigates crimes deemed too lowly [ 93713] £375 Christie, Ellery Queen, J. M. Barrie, Mark Twain, for Scotland Yard. Raymond Derek (1931–1994), and O. Henry. who also wrote under the name Robin Cook, is generally considered as one of the fathers of [ 88943] £750 British noir fiction. [ 88971] £375 click on the images above to go direct to our website REEVE, Arthur B. The Exploits of Elaine. A Detective Novel. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1915 Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine in black, publisher’s logo and stripes to spine and upper board in blind. With the dust jacket. Cloth bright, contents tanned. An excellent copy in the lightly rubbed and nicked jacket with a few short closed tears. First UK edition, first impression. Originally published in the US in the same year. This was one of a series of novels (including The Forty- Nine Steps) that were formatted to fit into the breast pockets of British soldiers’ uniforms. A rare book in dust jacket. [ 73108] £2,750

click on the image above to go direct to our website SAYERS, Dorothy L. SAYERS, Dorothy L. SAYERS, Dorothy L. Whose Body? The Five Red Herrings. Unnatural Death. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1923 London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1931 London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935 Octavo. Original purple cloth, titles to spine and Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black, map Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black. With upper board in black. Cloth tanned and rubbed, with endpapers. An excellent copy, with a little foxing to edges. the dust jacket. Neat ownership inscription on front dampstain and loss of size, and a circular ring to the First edition, first impression of this Lord free endpaper, spine slightly rolled and lightly sunned, a cover, spine rolled, spotting to edges of text block and Peter Wimsey detective story. It was retitled few nicks and chips at head, otherwise a very good copy. scattered through contents. A good copy. Suspicious Characters for its publication in First Gollancz edition, with “some corrections First UK edition, first impression of Sayer’s first the US later the same year, but reverted to the and amendments from Miss Sayers [and detective novel, in which she introduces Lord original title in subsequent printings. From the adding] for a Preface a short biography of Lord Peter Wimsey. Preceded only by the US edition publisher’s archive. Peter Wimsey, brought up to date (May 1935) published in the same year. A fantastically and communicated by his uncle Paul Austin [ 93732] £750 uncommon edition. Delagardie” (publisher’s note). Sayers’s third book, Unnatural Death was originally published [ 78761] £1,250 in 1927 by Ernest Benn. [ 109061] £375

click on the images above to go direct to our website STATHAM, S. M. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1930 endpaper. Cloth very slightly rubbed at the tips, some spotting to endpapers and early leaves and occasional Hephzibah. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in red. With the dust jacket. Edges and endpapers slightly foxed; small spots to margins of contents thereafter, as often. London: Arthur H. Stockwell, [1922] an excellent copy in the slightly soiled jacket that has A lovely, bright copy in excellent condition with the Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and upper sunned spine and edges, and a few nicks to extremities. competition slip intact. board in black. With the dust jacket. Two small First edition, first impression. A detective story, First edition, first impression. This famous white spots to lower joint, light partial tanning to free published in the US later the same year under piece of detective fiction is notable for being endpapers, spotting to edges of contents. An excellent the title The Two Ticket Puzzle. The publisher’s an early example of interactive media, as the copy in the lightly rubbed and nicked jacket with closed retained copy with their ink stamp to the title page. identity of the murderer was withheld pending tears to the folds repaired with tape to the verso. the result of the competition between readers First edition, first impression. An uncommon [ 93596] £1,750 to solve the mystery. Cash prizes were on detective novel set in Jewish London during the offer totalling the huge sum of £500. By some golden age of , in lovely condition with accounts the mystery was no such thing and the the attractive dust jacket. Not in Hubin or Locke. publishers were inundated with correct entries [ 72910] £375 WALLACE, Edgar. and disappointed customers. A particularly beautiful copy with the mail-in slip intact and The Four Just Men. still attached to its stub at the back of the book. London: Tallis Press, 1905 [STEWART, Alfred Walter.] J. J. [ 80440] £750 Connington. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine and upper board in black. Bookseller’s blind stamp to front free The Two Tickets Puzzle.

click on the images above to go direct to our website WHITECHURCH, Victor L. WILLS CROFTS, Freeman. Futile Alibi later the same year. Scarce in the dust jacket. The bequest plate, dated August 1938,

Murder at the College. The End of Andrew Harrison identifies the donor as Mrs Cole Porter and the London: The Crime Club Ltd, W. Collins Sons & The London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938 institution as the public library at Dark Harbor, Co. Ltd, [1932] Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front board Maine, though neither the composer nor his Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine and front lettered in black, blue endpapers. With the dust jacket. wife Linda Lee Thomas appears to have had any board in black. With the pictorial reminder issue dust Housed in a custom brown cloth solander box with a connection with the area. jacket. Spine a touch rolled, pastedowns, occasional gilt-lettered brown morocco spine-label. Bookplate [ 107919] £975 ligth foxing, chiefly to pastedowns, prelims and edges of Lawrence Solomon, noted American physician and of text block, cloth bright and fresh. A very good copy in collector of detective fiction, to solander box front the very lightly rubbed jacket. panel verso. Printed sheet of borrowing rules for Hays’ WOOLRICH, Cornell. First edition, first impression. Circulating Library of Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania (150 × 100 mm) laid in within taped acetate jacket; library Black Alibi. [ 89373] £375 bequest plate to front pastedown. Spine gently rolled and New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942 sunned, corners very faintly rubbed, contents slightly Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, red top- toned, small portion of damp-staining to rear free stain. A fine copy in the price-clipped jacket. endpaper. An excellent copy in the dust jacket slightly First edition, first printing of the book that was nicked on the spine and a touch rubbed along the joints. filmed as “The Leopard Man” in 1943. First edition, first impression. An Inspector [ 50811] £2,400 French mystery, published in the US as The

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