A selection of highlights from our most recent acquisitions. Contact us to discuss price or postage.
Detective Fiction
London, Gollancz, 1936.First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.An uncommon Asey Mayo tale and the first time we have encountered it in a jacket.
Detective Fiction
A Judge Peck Mystery Story
London, George Newnes, [1936]..
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 2/6.
A stunning jacket on this first UK edition of Arkham House stalwart Derleth's second Judge Peck mystery, in which not one but three sons-in-law meet an unknown death. First published in the US in 1934. The splendid jacket artwork features a naked man on all fours, of course, holding a smoking gun.