Detective Fiction
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
Detective Fiction Peter Harrington london click on the images above to go direct to our website Detective Fiction 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 dust 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 Chambers, 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.