WELLS, Carolyn (1862-1942). A group of 15 FIRST EDITIONS, comprising:
1) The Mystery of the Sycamore. 1921.
2) Feathers Left Around. 1923.
3) The Furthest Fury. 1924.
4) The Fourteenth Key. New York and London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. INSCRIBED BY WELLS, "To Charles Swan Sedgwick, with hearty good wishes from Carolyn Wells Houghton."
5) The Ghosts' High Noon. 1930.
6) The Doomed Five. 1930.
7) The Tapestry Room Murder. 1931.
8) The Skeleton at the Feast. Garden City, NY: The Crime Club, Inc. for Doubleday & Company, 1931.
9) The Roll-Top Desk Mystery. 1932.
10) The Wooden Indian. 1935.
11) The Beautiful Derelict. 1935.
12) Money Musk. 1936.
13) Crime Incarnate. 1940. INSCRIBED BY WELLS, "To Charles E. Honce. This, my latest (pity I can't say last mystery)."
14) Murder Plus. 1940.
15) The Black Night Murders. 1941.
Together, 15 works in 15 volumes, all in original binding and many with publisher's dust jackets, all 8vo and all published in Philadelphia by Lippincott unless otherwise noted. Condition generally very fine.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
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