[LITERATURE - DETECTIVE FICTION]. A group of 400 titles, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, including:
1) ANTHONY, Wilder. Men of Mystery. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1926.
2) BEDFORD-JONES, H. The Shadow. New York: The Fiction League, 1930.
3) BENTLEY, John. The Eyes of Death. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company for The Crime Club, 1934. In dust jacket.
4) BURKE, Thomas. The London Spy. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1922. In dust jacket.
5) BURNETT, Frances Hodgson. Editha's Burglar. Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888.
6) HEXT, Harrington. The Thing at their Heels. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1923. In dust jacket.
7) HIGHSMITH, Patricia. The Glass Cell. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company for The Crime Clube, 1964. In dust jacket.
8) LEROUX, Gaston. The Masked Man. New York: The Macaulay Company, 1929. In dust jacket.
9) MARTIN, Stuart. The Fifteen Cells. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. Third printing. In original dust jacket with printed wrap-around band and original unbroken interior seal.
10) MILNE, A.A. The Red House of Mystery. London: Methuen, 1922.
11) POPKIN, Zelda. Murder in the Mist. New York: J.B. Lippincott, 1940. In original glassine wrapper.
12) STRIBLING, T.S. Clues of the Caribbees. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929.
13) VANCE, Louis Joseph. The Lone Wolf. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. 1914.
14) VANCE, Louis Joseph. Detective. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1932.
15) WEBSTER, Henry Kitchell. The Quartz Eye. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill, 1928. In dust jacket.
And others. Together, 400 works in 402 volumes. All 8vo, all published between ca 1880s-1960s, all in original cloth, most in dust jackets, MOST FIRST EDITIONS, SEVERAL INSCRIBED OR SIGNED, a couple from the library of Vincent Starrett and Adrian H. Goldstone. Condition generally very good.
Selections from the Library of Dr. John Talbot Gernon
This lot is located in Chicago.
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