Sixteen mainly pre-war crime fiction and mystery novels, inc...

Hammer

£130

Sixteen mainly pre-war crime fiction and mystery novels, including Michael Innes [i.e. J.I.M. Stewart]: 'Death at the President's Lodging', London, Victor Gollancz, 1936, 1st edition, folding plan at end, rebound contemporary cloth. The author's first novel, scarce; J. Jefferson Farjeon: 'The 5.18 Mystery', L, Literary Press, c.1929, orig. decorative cloth gilt, Dolf Wyllarde: 'There Was a Crooked Man', L, Methuen, 1916, 2nd edition, orig. cloth; Anthony Abbot: 'The Murder of the Night Club Lady', W. Collins, 1934, 4th impression, orig. cloth; Victor L. Whitechurch: 'Shot on the Downs', L, T Fisher Unwin, 1930, 3rd impression, orig. cloth; John Ferguson: 'Death of Mr. Dodsley', 1937, 2nd impression, orig. cloth; Fred M. White, 3 novels bound in 1: 'The Mystery of the Ravenspurs', 1913, 'The Slave of Silence', 1908, 'The Secret of the Sands', 1913, all pub Ward Lock, all with b/w frontispieces, 2nd title with 1 further b/w plate, contemp. half cloth gilt; R. Austin Freeman: 'When Rogues Fall Out', 1932, 1st edition, ex-lib, orig. cloth; plus 8 Hodder & Stoughton Yellow Jackets from the late 1930's-early 1940's (of which 7 Sapper Bulldog Drummond series and the other Leslie Charteris 'The Saint', [nd], c.1941), all orig. cloth in dust wrappers, plus 1 other similar (16)