Comic novels and romances
Collection of works in dust jackets
£479
Auction: 05 February 2025 from 10:00 GMT
Description
all 8vo, original cloth, with the dust jackets, apparent first editions and published in London unless otherwise stated, titles include:
Raleigh, H. M. The Merry Mug, Geoffrey Bless, 1936 [dust jacket front flap: 'On arrival at the village of Doom [the protagonist] found himself in the midst of a Pagan Revivalism with marked tendencies towards human sacrifice'];
Holt, Edgar. Quick Work, Eldon Press Limited, 1933;
Weigall, Arthur. Saturnalia in Room 23, T. Fisher Unwin Limited, 1927, tape-repairs to dust jacket verso;
Bagley, John. Naked Spirit, Sevenoaks: Knole Park Press Limited, c.1930, dust jacket price-clipped;
Keightley, J. William. The Splinter in the Water-Chute, Stanley Paul & Co., Ltd., c.1930, abrasion to foot of jacket spine possibly from removal of overprice label;
Crauford, W. H. Lane. When the Devil Was Well, Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1934;
McCulley, Johnston. The Mark of Zorro, Macdonald, 1959, first UK edition;
and 20 others (27)
Provenance
The Golden Age of Detective and Adventure Fiction: Selections from the Stock of Obelist Books, Glasgow.