The Floating Admiral

Lot 44
28.09.2023 13:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 44 | The Floating Admiral
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The Floating Admiral

The Detection Club

[DETECTION CLUB] – [CHRISTIE, Agatha (1890-1976), Dorothy L. SAYERS and others]. The Floating Admiral. By certain members of the Detection Club. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1931].



A collaborative novel capturing the essence of the golden age of detective fiction: first edition in the rare dust-jacket of a Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. We are able to trace just one other copy in the dust-jacket in auction records, which was an inferior example to the present jacket. The contributors were all members of the secretive Detection Club which was founded in London in 1928 by Dorothy L. Sayers and Anthony Berkeley, and whose first president was G.K. Chesterton. The increasingly complicated puzzle of a novel, to which some of the biggest names in the genre contributed their own twists, is finally resolved by Anthony Berkeley's final chapter 'Clearing Up the Mess'. Agatha Christie was a member and was Co-President from 1958 until her death.



Octavo. Half-title with full-page map on the reverse (a little light spotting at end, faint spotting to edges). Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in dark blue (spine ends and corners very slightly bumped, extremities a trifle rubbed); original pictorial dust-jacket (jacket somewhat chipped at head of spine [reinforced at head with tape on the reverse] and at ends of folds, overall somewhat marked and dust-stained, creases along folds).

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