£80 - £120
(Crime Fiction.) A collection of 30 assorted crime and mystery fiction titles, including Freeman Wills Crofts: 'Death on the Way', London, Collins Crime Club, 1932, 1st UK edition, original cloth, 'Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery', L, Collins, 1926, 1st UK edition, orig. cloth, 'Crime at Guildford', L, Crime Club, May 1935, 2nd impression, orig. cloth, plus 7 others reprints by same author; J.J. Connington: 'The Dangerfield Talisman', Lonndon, Ernest Benn, 1926, 1st edition, orig. cloth, 'Mystery at Lynden Sands', L, Victor Gollancz, 1929, 3rd impression, plus 5 others J.J. Connington reprints; Edgar Wallace: 'The Four Just Men', London, The Tallis Press, 1905, 1st edition, folding b/w frontis, £500 competition slip intact at end, orig. cloth; Dominic Devine, 3 titles, all Collins Crime Club, all 1st editions, all orig. cloth, all in dust wrappers 'Devil at Your Elbow', 1966, (dust wrapper lower panel and rear inside flap with large part losses), 'Death is My Bridegroom', 1969, 'Dead Trouble', 1971; Anthony Armstrong: 'The Poison Trail', L, Methuen, 1933, 1st edition thus (originally published Ernest Benn 'New Ninepenny Novels' series paperback, 1932), orig. cloth, dust wrapper; plus 8 others including Michael Poole (4), Dorothy Sayers (2), Cyril Hare (2) (30 in total)
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