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Lot 403
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$325
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Lot Description
[LITERATURE - MYSTERY FICTION]. A group of 21 FIRST EDITIONS, SOME SIGNED, all Edgar Award-winning titles, comprising:
1) FRANCIS, Dick. Forfeit. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
2) SJOWALL, Maj and Per WAHLOO. The Laughing Policeman. New York: Pantheon Books, 1970.
3) HILLERMAN, Tony. Dance
Hall of the Dead. New York: Harper & Row, 1973.
4) GARFIELD, Brian. Hopscotch. New York: M. Evans, 1975.
5) PARKER, Robert B. Promised Land. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976.
6) FRANCIS, Dick. Whip Hand. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.
7) BAYER, William. Peregrine.
Toronto?: Congdon & Lattes, 1981.
8) BOYER, Rick. Billingsgate
Shoal. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982.
9 ) LEONARD, Elmore. LaBrava. New York: Arbor House, 1983.
10) WRIGHT, L.R. The Suspect.
Toronto: Doubleday, 1985.
11) VINE, Barbara. A Dark-Adapted Eye. Toronto: Bantam Books, 1986.
12) ELKINS, Aaron. Old Bones. New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 1987. SIGNED BY ELKINS.
13) KAMINSKY, Stuart M. A Cold Red Sunrise. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
14) SMITH, Julie. New Orleans Mourning. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990. SIGNED BY SMITH.
15) BLOCK, Lawrence. A Dance at the Slaughterhouse. New York: William Morrow, 1991. SIGNED BY BLOCK.
16) MARON, Margaret. Bootlegger's Daughter. New York: The Mysterious Bookshop, 1992.
17) WALTER, Minette. The
Sculptress. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
18) WALKER, Mary Willis. The
Red Scream. New York: Doubleday, 1994. SIGNED BY WALKER.
19) FRANCIS, Dick. Come to
Grief. London: Michael Joseph, 1995.
20) COOK, Thomas. The Chatham
School Affair. New York: Bantam Books, 1996.
21) BURKE, James Lee. Cimarron
Rose. New York: Hyperion, 1997. SIGNED BY BURKE.
Together, 21 works in 21 volumes, all 8vo, all in original cloth and dust jackets, ALL FIRST EDITIONS, condition generally fine.
This lot is located in Chicago.
