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Detective Fiction: 9 works

Lot 367
29.09.2023 11:00UTC +00:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 367 | Detective Fiction: 9 works
Estimate value
£ 3 000 – 5 000
A group of nine volumes, comprising:

GARDNER, Erle Stanley (1889-1970). The Case of the Sulky Girl. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1933.
First edition of the second Perry Mason mystery in the rare dust-jacket. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in red (spine slightly cocked and ends just bumped, endpapers browned); original dust-jacket (spine sunned, lightly rubbed and creased, chips to spine ends resulting in minor losses to title and ‘Morrow Mystery’ assignation).

— The Case of the Rolling Bones. London: Cassell and Company, 1940.
First UK edition of a Perry Mason mystery. Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine on a black ground (slightly cocked, spine faintly sunned); original dust-jacket priced at 8/- (lightly rubbed).

KEELER, Harry (1890-1967) and Hazel GOODWIN (fl. 1951). The Barking Clock. London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1951.
First UK edition, presentation copy. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in black (faint marks to spine, fore-edge a little spotted, browning to endpapers); original dust-jacket priced at 8/6 (somewhat soiled and creased, closed tears to upper and lower panels). Provenance: Mr & Mrs Al Sachs (authorial presentation inscription to front free endpaper) — loosely inserted letter from the author to Mr. Al Sachs (signed and with autograph annotations in pen, dated December 22).

LANDON, Herman (1859-1948). The Picaroon Does Justice. London: Cassell and Company Ltd., 1928.
First edition. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black (spotting to foredge); original dust-jacket (edges slightly rubbed).

WELLS, Carolyn (1862-1942). The Radio Studio Murder. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1937.
First edition, presentation copy. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and upper cover lettered, ruled and decorated in black (extremities lightly rubbed); original dust-jacket priced at $2.00 (lightly worn and creased, lower panel soiled, a few chips and tears, some with small loss). Provenance: Bridget Mary O’Connell (authorial presentation inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1937).

VAN DINE, S. S. (1888-1939). The Kidnap Murder Case. London: Cassell and Company, Ltd., 1936.
First UK edition of a Philo Vance mystery. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt (light browning to endpapers); original dust-jacket (lightly rubbed and creased with a few nicks to edges).

QUEEN, Ellery [Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred Bennington Lee (1905-1971), editors]. To the Queen’s Taste. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1946.
First edition, presentation copy to Charles Honce. Octavo. Original black cloth, spine and upper cover with titles in stamped red decoration (spine ends faintly rubbed, small mark to spine); original dust-jacket (somewhat worn, flaps almost detached, backstrip sunned and ends chipped with some textual loss to title, top edge with smaller chips and nicks). Provenance: Charles Honce (bibliographer, authorial presentation inscription from ‘Fred’ to front flypaper).

— The Adventures of Ellery Queen. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1940].
Presentation copy to Charles Honce. Later printing (first edition published 1933). Octavo. (Lightly browned.) Original black cloth, spine and upper cover with titles and decoration stamped in red, top edge stained red (head of spine just rubbed, spine faintly tanned); original dust-jacket (somewhat worn, flaps almost detached, some textual loss to lower panel, small chips and nicks, backstrip tanned). Provenance: Charles Honce (bibliographer, presentation inscription to front free endpaper: ‘To Charles Honce who is the sort of reader for whom the forthcoming ‘101 years entertainment’ was collected – With the best wishes of the author ‘Ellery Queen’’.)

BRANDE, Dorothea (1893-1948). Beauty Vanishes. London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1935.
First UK edition. Octavo. Four leaves of publisher’s ads at end. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black, green endpapers (slightly cocked, extremities lightly rubbed); original dust-jacket designed by Bip Pares priced at 7s. 6d. (lightly rubbed, backstrip sunned with chipped ends causing some textual loss, some closed tears and chips, most repaired with tape on verso). Provenance: contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, dated 1935.
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