Jun 15, 2023 - Sale 2641

Sale 2641 - Lot 174

Price Realized: $ 406
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MYSTERY and DETECTIVE FICTION.) Group of 8 Golden Age First editions. 8vo, publisher's cloth or wrappers, dust jackets as issued. Comprising: FROME, DAVID. Mr. Pinkerton Goes to Scotland Yard. Advance review copy in pictorial wrappers. NY, 1934 * IRWIN, WALLACE. The Julius Caesar Murder Case. Price-clipped jacket with tape repairs on verso, two large tears with letters lost. NY, 1935 * HAMMETT, DASHIELL, et al. The Smiling Corpse. Spine lean, jacket with tape repairs on verso, chipping with loss. NY, 1935 * BAKER, RICHARD M. Death Stops the Manuscript. Abrasion to center of jacket spine panel. NY, 1936 * PRIESTLEY, J.B. The Doomsday Men. Near fine. London, 1938 * ILES, FRANCIS. As For the Woman. Cocked, jacket separated along one fold, chipped, spine panel tear. NY, 1939 * TREAT, LAWRENCE. H As in Hangman. Jacket rubbed along folds and edges. NY, 1942 * PHILLPOTTS, EDEN. A Deed Without A Name. Jacket rubbed with small chips to flap folds and top edges. NY, 1942. (8) Vp, vd