Collins Crime Club

    Richard Hull, Left-Handed Death, first edition, 1946

    Detective Fiction

    Hull (Richard, pseud. Richard Henry Sampson) Left-Handed Death

    £125



    London, Collins Crime Club, 1946.

    First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s6d.

    An uncommon first edition in the jacket; a government official's investigations into an engineering company's failing business leads to murder...

    L.G. Blochman, Midnight Sailing, first UK edition, [1939]

    War, Invasion & Spy

    Blochman (L.G.) Midnight Sailing

    £395



    London, Collins Crime Club, [1939].

    First UK edition. Ex-Library. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s6d.

    Cool jacket artwork, depicting a man with a red briefcase hastening up some steps with the number '9', but not the story of a Chancellor of the Exchequer in panic, instead a departure from the crime fiction Blochman was more well-known for, into the murky world of espionage.

    M.G. Eberhart, Fair Warning, first UK edition, 1936

    Detective Fiction

    Eberhart (M[ignon].G.) Fair Warning

    £575



    London, Collins Crime Club, 1936.

    First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

    Quite cool woodcut-style artwork adorns this first UK edition's jacket. Eberhart is an interesting author of detective fiction, not least for her ability to extend the same basic premise over nearly forty volumes!

    G.D.H. & M. Cole, Knife in the Dark, first edition, 3rd impression, 1945

    Detective Fiction

    Cole (G.D.H. & M.) Knife in the Dark

    £125



    London, Collins Crime Club, 1945.

    First edition, third impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4s6

    Mrs Warrander uncovers the truth behind a murder during an undergraduates' dance.

    Ngaio Marsh, Colour Scheme, first edition, 1943

    Detective Fiction

    Marsh (Ngaio) Colour Scheme

    £125



    London, Collins Crime Club, 1943.

    First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

    A murder mystery, set in a thermal spa in the author's home country New Zealand.

    E.C.R. Lorac, The Theft of the Iron Dogs, first edition, 1946

    Detective Fiction

    Lorac (E.C.R., pseud. Edith Caroline Rivett) The Theft of the Iron Dogs

    £95



    London, Collins Crime Club, 1946.

    First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

    A fascinating mystery set against a backdrop of the beautiful Fell country of Lunesdale in Lancashire.

    Victor Gunn, Three Dates with Death, first edition, 1947

    Detective Fiction

    Gunn (Victor, pseud. Edwy Searles Brooks, aka Berkeley Gray) Three Dates with Death

    £150



    London, Collins Crime Club, 1947.

    First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3s.6d.

    A pleasing first edition of the twelfth novel in the author's "Ironsides" Cromwell series.

    Hulbert Footner, The Viper, first edition, 1930

    Detective Fiction

    Footner (Hulbert) The Viper:

    £295


    Further Crime Investigations of Madame Storey.
    London, Collins Crime Club, 1930.

    First edition. 8vo. Original cloth (red issue). Dust-jacket, second state, correctly priced 3/6.

    The ongoing exploits of Footner's serial character, the brilliant lady detective, Madame Storey, set in Paris. The second issue jacket is to a wholly different design than the first, and as a result considered highly collectable.

    Edgar Wallace, The Devil Man, first edition, 1931

    Sci-Fi & Fantasy

    Wallace (Edgar) The Devil Man.

    £250



    London, Collins Crime Club, 1931

    First edition. 8vo. 2pp. advertisements. Original dark orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket spine priced 3/6, with further 1/- sticker.

    'The name "Charles Pearce"...to whisper it after dark is to start a horde of wild imagings...all that makes the flesh creep and the hair stand on end...a repulsive creature to look upon; a colossal braggart; a gifted musician; a murderer - a dwarf in stature and a Samson in strength; the perfect burglar; and a man with an irresistible attraction for women...' (publisher's blurb).

    A very good first edition in early issue jacket with the sinister artwork by V. Asta bright and clean to upper panel.

    Hulbert Footner, The Almost Perfect Murder, first edition

    Detective Fiction

    Footner (Hulbert) The Almost Perfect Murder.

    £180


    More Madame Storey Mysteries.
    London, Collins Crime Club, 1933

    First edition, second impression (i.e. first Cheap Edition, published the same month as the first). 8vo. 4pp. advertisements. Original orange cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3'6 (1st Cheap Edition).

    A very good copy of this compilation of short stories by the prolific author Hulbert Footner, featuring his well-known protagonist Madame Rosika Storey. Scarce in the dust-jacket. Preceding the US edition by four years.

    Hulbert Footner, A Self-Made Thief, first edition, 1927

    Detective Fiction

    Footner (Hulbert) A Self-Made Thief.

    £1,450

    First edition. London. Collins, 1927 ‘[a] swift-moving thriller...gives a vivid picture of life in New York’s underworld.’ (jacket blurb)A very good, unsophisticated example of this title by prolific Canadian author [William] Hulbert Footner, listed in Hubin but wrongly dated as 1929 (the date of the first US edition) therein. We could find no copies of this the true first edition on WorldCat’s database for institutional holdings. Exceedingly scarce in the original dust-jacket.From the collection of Adrian Homer Goldstone, 1897-1977 (bookplate). Goldstone was a renowned Californian book-collector, particularly well know for his bibliographies of Arthur Machen and John Steinbeck, both of which were published through the University of Texas.

    Stephen Maddock

    Detective Fiction

    Maddock (Stephen) Conspirators in Capri.

    £275

    First edition, second impression first month as first state April 1935.
    London. Collins, 1935
    Stephen Maddock was a pseudonym used by prolific adventure and crime fiction writer JT Walsh born 1897 to 1952. He had two main series characters under this name: Inspector Slane and Timothy Terrel, the latter of whom appears in Conspirators in Capri. Very scarce in a jacket.