Wright & Brown (publisher)
Collection of murder mystery novels in the dust jackets
£819
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all undated with no statement of reprinting, 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jackets (nearly all by G. P. Micklewright), references to Hubin, Crime Fiction II, 1994 in square brackets. Titles include:
Verner, Gerald. The Football Pool Murders, c.1939, dust jacket priced 4/6 [p. 822];
Desmond, Hugh [Hubin: ‘possibly the pseudonym of Kathleen Lindsay’]. Death by Candlelight, c.1940, jacket priced 7/6 [N/A];
Idem. Death in the Shingle, c.1948, jacket priced 4/6, pencilled inscription ‘Xmas 1950’ to front pastedown [p. 231];
Richmond, Mary [pseudonym of Kathleen Lindsay]. Shadow of the Gallows. c.1940, jacket priced 3/6 [p. 680];
Mackenzie, Nigel. Murder over Karnak, c.1949, jacket priced 5/, cloth mottled and soiled, pencilled inscription to front pastedown [p. 534];
Brandon, John G. Death Tolls the Gong, c.1939, jacket with 4/6 overprice sticker [p. 97: a boxing story];
Garnett, Roger [pseudonym of Nigel Morland]. Danger-Death at Work, c.1937, jacket priced 4/6 (possibly later) [p. 316];
and 13 similar including others by Hugh Desmond and John G. Brandon, all in jackets (20)
Provenance
The Golden Age of Detective and Adventure Fiction: Selections from the Stock of Obelist Books, Glasgow.