May 17, 2007 - Sale 2114

Sale 2114 - Lot 459

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
INSCRIBED TO COXE WITH HOPE FOR A SUCCESSFUL FIRST BOOK NEBEL, FREDERICK. Group of 3 volumes Inscribed and Signed to mystery writer George Harmon Coxe. 8vo, original cloth, dust jackets and condition as noted. Boston, 1930s

Additional Details

Sleepers East. Early reprint. Dust jacket. Inscribed: "My dear George--My good wishes accompany this, and also the hope that you will publish a book and that it will be a notable success. And now, auf Wiedersehen!" Signed from Bridgton, Maine and dated August 22, 1933, two years before Coxe's breakthough book Murder with Pictures. Boston, (June) 1933 But Not the End. Lacks dust jacket. Inscribed in month of publication. Boston, 1934 Fifty Roads to Town. First Edition. Cloth toned from dust jacket offsetting, spine and folds browned. Inscribed in month of publication. Boston, 1936.