Crime fiction
Collection of American crime, detective and adventure novels in the dust jackets, 1910s-50s
£1,386
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jackets (in good condition overall but with a few generally small nicks and tears in places), references to Hubin, Crime Fiction II (1994) in square brackets, titles include:
Douglas, Hudson [pseudonym of Robert Aitken]. The Man in the Mirror. New York: W. J. Watt & Company Publishers, c.1910. Presumed first edition (undated but with no indication of reprints) [p. 243];
Gluck, Sinclair. The Wildcat. Dodd, Mead & Company, 1932. First edition [p. 331];
McCulley, Johnston. Black Star's Campaign. New York: Chelsea House, 1924. First edition, jacket with closed tear up rear fold and into spine-panel [p. 524];
Landon, Herman. The Gray Phantom's Return. New York: W. J. Watt & Company, 1922. First edition [p. 482];
Dutton, Charles J. Poison Unknown. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1932. First edition [p. 255];
Oliver, Gail [pseudonym of Marian Gallagher Scott]. The Moon Saw Murder. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1937. First edition, jacket price-clipped [p. 613; the only novel by the author listed];
Lord, Jeremy [pseudonym of Ben Ray Redman]. Sixty-Nine Diamonds. New York: for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1940. First edition, bookplate of Paul Tabori [p. 513];
Scotland, Jay [pseudonym of John William Jakes]. The Seventh Man. New York: Mystery House, 1958. First edition, jacket price-clipped [p. 724];
Sarasin, J. G. [pseudonym of Geraldine Gordon Salmon]. The Black Glove. New York: George H. Doran Company, 1926. First US edition (first published in London by Hutchinson in 1925) [p. 717];
Rath, E. J. When the Devil Was Sick. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, c.1926. Early edition (first published by Howard & Watt in 1926);
and 28 others (38)
Provenance
The Golden Age of Detective and Adventure Fiction: Selections from the Stock of Obelist Books, Glasgow.