Nautical fiction
Collection of nautical adventure novels, mainly 1930s
£756
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jackets, references to Hubin, Crime Fiction II (1994) in square brackets. Titles include:
Parkman, Sydney. Ship Ashore. London: Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1936. First edition, inscribed by the author ‘H. W. Brown, with sincere regards, Sydney Parkman’ on the title-page, cloth faded, repairs to dust jacket [p. 682];
Divine, A. D. U-Boat in the Hebrides. London: Collins, 1940. First edition, final page blind-stamped review copy [p. 237];
Truss, Seldon. Escort to Danger. London: Hodder and Stoughton, Limited, 1935. First edition, dust jacket designed by Bip Pares (with minor repairs) [p. 809];
MacNalty, A. Salusbury. The Mystery of Captain Burnaby. London: Pawling and Ness Ltd., 1934. First edition, price torn away from front flap of jacket [p. 538, the author's only work there listed];
Wilmot, J. R. Night Tide. London: Ivor Nicholson and Watson, 1936. First edition, jacket spine with loss to foot and chipping to head, a few other tears [p. 868];
Westerman, J. F. C. Fortune Island. London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., [1932]. First edition, jacket designed by Christopher Cavanian Sanders price-clipped and with loss to foot of jacket, corresponding marking to front board;
Norman, Bruce. The Luck of Jocelyn Pinner, R.N. London: Arrowsmith, 1931. First edition, spine rolled, faded and with label removed [p. 604];
Drax, Peter [i.e. Eric Elrington Addis]. High Seas Murder. London: Hutchinson & Company, [1939]. First edition, spine rolled, textblock browned [Hubin p. 213]
Connington, J. J. Tom Tiddler's Island. London: Hodder & Stoughton, Limited, 1933. First edition, spine rolled, jacket toned and rubbed with chips to spine-panel, initial blank or half-title removed;
and 10 others similar (19)
Provenance
The Golden Age of Detective and Adventure Fiction: Selections from the Stock of Obelist Books, Glasgow.
Footnote
A. Salusbury MacNalty (1880-1969), author of The Mystery of Captain Burnaby, was a leading physician who served as chief medical officer of the United Kingdom from 1935 to 1941.