Crime fiction
Collection of mystery and detective novels in macabre dust jackets
£1,449
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jackets (with variable fraying and wear chiefly to extremities but generally in good condition), apparently first editions unless otherwise stated, references to Hubin, Crime Fiction II (1994) in square brackets, titles include:
‘Trill'. The Sickle Murders. By the Author of “The Vengeance of Ping Ho”. London: Lincoln Williams, 1935, halftone portrait frontispiece with the author in a mask, dust jacket backed on paper at an early date [p. 808];
Haslett, G. Wyndham. Portrait in Shadows. London: Hurst & Blackett Ltd, 1938, inscribed by the author ‘For “Fwee” with love as ever, Wyndham, Mar 24th ’38' with a small ink sketch, jacket with hole to spine and a few repairs;
Ward, Harold. The Blood of Buddha. London: Andrew Melrose, Ltd, 1937 [p. 839];
Dickson, Grierson. Traitors' Market. A Story of the Secret Service. London: Hutchison & Co., [1936], ink-stamped ‘with the publisher’s compliments' on the title-page, spine rolled, fore edge spotted [p. 235];
Freeman, Martin Joseph. The Case of the Blind Mouse. London: Melbourne Press Limited, 1936, first UK edition (first published in the US in 1935) [p. 305];
Morrison, R. P. Sacrife. London: Rich & Cowan Ltd, [1939], repairs to dust jacket;
Verner, Gerald. The Black Hunchback. London: Wright & Brown, c.1935. Early edition (first published 1933, the list of the author's works including Terror Tower etc., published 1935), ownership inscription dated 1941 to endpapers [p. 822];
Lambert, Rosa & Dudley. Crime in Quarantine. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1938. Bookplate of Paul Tabori (Hungarian author), discolouration to cloth, repairs to jacket [p. 481];
and 15 others similar (a few stated second impressions) (23)
Provenance
The Golden Age of Detective and Adventure Fiction: Selections from the Stock of Obelist Books, Glasgow.