Estimated Price:

£700 - £900

Realised Price:

£840 ($1,527)

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A COLLECTION OF 34 WORKS:

Beeding, Francis. The House of Dr Edwardes, reprint; Death Walks in Eastrepps, Mystery League, 1931, American first edition, dust-jacket, dust-jacket torn with loss and stained; The Norwich Victims, Hodder, 1935, first edition, boards slightly marked, internally mint; Bruce, Leo. Case for Three Detectives, Bles, "first published in 1936", but green cloth reissue, dust-jacket, contemporary newspaper cutting with review of book stuck to front pastedown and endpaper; Case Without a Corpse, Bles, 1937, reissue with black lettering to cloth, dust-jacket, A Louse for the Hangman, Peter Davies, 1958, first edition, dust-jacket, library stamp on fore-edge, dust-jacket torn and chipped; Cobb, Thomas. The Crime Without a Clue, Benn, 1929, first edition, dust-jacket, spine of dust-jacket slightly scratched, excellent condition; Crispin, Edmund. The Moving Toyshop, Gollancz, 1946, first edition, dust-jacket, tears to dust-jacket repaired neatly with tape; Cross, Mark. Murder in the Pool, Ward Lock, 1941, first edition, dust-jacket, front endpaper removed,55mm. chip to base of spine of dust-jacket, sticker removed from centre of spine; The Mystery of Gruden's Gap, Ward Lock, 1942, first edition, dust-jacket, front endpaper removed, closed tear to base of spine of dust- jacket repaired internally with tape; Davisson Post, Melville, The Silent Witness, Farrar & Rinehart 1930, first edition, dust-jacket, edges of boards very worn, dust-jacket complete but heavily strengthened and stuck down to book with brown tape; Foster, Maximillian. Humdrum House, Appleton, 1924, first edition, dust-jacket, edges of dust-jacket rubbed, some small closed tears and chips, generally in excellent fresh condition; Frome, David. Mr Pinkerton has the Clue, Longman, 1936, first english edition, dust-jacket priced 2/6, edges of dust-jacket rubbed, some tears with loss but unaffecting image on front pannel, as Ford, Leslie. The Philadelphia Murder Case, Collins Crime Club, 1945, first english edition, dust-jacket, rear panel of dust-jacket damp stained, small chips; Gribble, Leonard R. The Case of the Marsden Rubies, Harrap, 1930, tissue seal unbroken, this gimmick dared the reader not to continue reading beyond a certain point and learn the mystery's denouement, if the seal was unbroken the book could be returned and the reader reimbursed; needless to say, to find such "Sealed Mysteries" intact is virtually unknown; Hull, Richard. Keep it Quiet, Faber, 1935, first edition, damp spotting; Murder Isn't Easy, Faber, 1936, reprint, dust-jacket; The Murderers of Monty, Faber, 1937, first edition, dust-jacket, top and bottom of spine of dust-jacket slightly crushed, book and jacket in near fine condition; Left-Handed Death, Collins Crime Club, 1946, first edition, dust-jacket, dust-jacket complete but heavily strengthened; Last First, Collins Crime Club, 1947, first edition, dust-jacket; A Matter of Nerves , Collins Crime Club, 1950, first edition, dust-jacket; Hickey, T.F.W. The Corpse in the Church, Methuen, 1930, first edition; Horler, Sydney. The Mystery of the Seven Cafés, Hodder, 1935, first edition; Jepson, Edgar. Barradine Detects, Herbert Jenkins, 1937, first edition; Keeler, Harry Stephen. Find Actor Hart, Ward Lock, 1939, first edition, dust-jacket, minor chips to dust-jacket; Loder, Vernon. The Shop Window Murders, Collins, 1930, first edition; Marsh, Richard. The Adventures of Judith Lee, Methuen, 1916, first edition; Masterman, J.C. An Oxford Tragedy, Gollancz, 1933, first edition, dust-jacket, slight damp spotting to page edges, short tears to edges of dust-jacket, minute loss, generally in excellent condition; Milne A.A. The Red House Mystery, Methuen, reprint, dust-jacket; Moffat, James. The Tangled Web, Hodder, [1929], first edition; Strong, L.A.G. All Fall Down, Collins Crime Club, reprint, dust-jacket; Whitechurch, Victor L. Shot on the Downs, T. Fisher Unwin, 1927, first edition; Murder at the Pageant, Collins Crime Club, reprint, dust-jacket; Murder at the College, Collins Crime Club, reprint, dust-jacket; Wren, Lassiter and McKay, Randle. The Baffle Book, Doubleday, reprint, dust-jacket (34)