Oct 27, 2022 - Sale 2619

Sale 2619 - Lot 203

Price Realized: $ 750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(MYSTERY and DETECTIVE FICTION.) Group of 8 Golden Age works. 8vo, publisher's cloth; original dust jackets; condition very good or better. Comprising: HARVEY, ALEXANDER. The Toe and Other Tales. Jacket spine panel with price neatly excised and small chip to foot, closed tears with associated creasing to bottom of front panel and at bottom of rear flap fold. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author. NY, 1913 * LEVEL, MAURICE. Those Who Return (L'Ombre). Jacket, entirely rebacked, portion of spine panel supplied in facsimile. First American edition. NY, 1923 * COHEN, OCTAVUS ROY. The May Day Mystery. Corner-clipped jacket, one tape mend on verso. First edition. NY, 1929 * PATRICK, Q. [Richard Wilson Webb and Martha Mott Kelley]. Cottage Sinister. Jacket with tape repairs to verso, small nicks to fold corners and spine ends; ownership signature. First edition of the author's first mystery novel. Philadelphia, 1931 * JACOBS, T.C.H. The Kestrel House Mystery. Light finger soiling to cloth, slight lean; unclipped jacket, spine panel faded. First edition. NY, 1933 * BLAKE, NICHOLAS. The Summer Camp Mystery. Jacket with corners narrowly clipped retaining $2.00 price, several tape remnants on recto and verso, chipping to spine panel ends and fold corners. First American edition. NY, 1940 * HEARD, H.F. A Taste for Honey. Jacket spine panel faded, few chips, short closed tears. First edition. NY, 1941 * PETERSEN, HERMAN. The D.A.'s Daughter. Jacket corners narrowly clipped retaining $2.00 price, spine panel faded, corners nicked. First edition. (8) Vp, vd