Ward, Lock & Co. (publisher)
Collection of detective and mystery novels with the dust jackets
£404
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:
Graham, Winston. No Exit. An Adventure, 1940. First edition, dust jacket price-clipped with small losses to front flap and foot of spine and small closed tear to front panel, partial split to foot of joint between rear panel and flap [p. 342];
Dawe, Carlton. Live Cartridge, 1937. First edition, dust jacket priced 7/6 on front flap, jacket backed on card [p. 220];
Robertson, Colin. Night Shadows, 1935. First edition, possible later-issue dust jacket priced at 3/6, small chip to foot of jacket spine [p. 688];
Durie, Lynn [pseudonym of Douglas Christie]. The Triall Case, 1932. First edition, presumed later issue with dust jacket priced at 3/6, fraying to head of jacket spine [p. 255];
Burnaby, Nigel [pseudonym of Harold Pincton Ellett]. Two Deaths for a Penny, 1935. First edition, presumed later issue with dust jacket priced at 2/6 [p. 119: the author's final novel listed, of four];
Goodchild, George. Quest of Nigel Rix, 1934. First edition, presumed later issue with dust jacket priced at 3/6, closed tear to head of joint between spine and front panel, abrasion to front panel affecting word ‘of’ [p. 334, title erroneously given as ‘… Nigel Rex’];
and 33 similar, including novels by Colin Robertson, Mark Cross, George Goodchild, Edgar Wallace, Carlton Dawe, and others, all in dust jackets but most apparently later issue with three-digit numerals printed to spine-panels (39)
Provenance
The Golden Age of Detective and Adventure Fiction: Selections from the Stock of Obelist Books, Glasgow.
Footnote
No Exit is an uncommon early work by Winston Graham and precedes the first of his Poldark novels by five years. Night Shadows is prolific mystery author Colin Robertson's third novel.