DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY FICTION

Daphne Du Maurier.  Rebecca. London, 1938. Cloth; paste-down endpapers foxed, covers slightly spotted. Dust jacket and wrap-around band; the latter defective. Signed by the author on the title-page. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. — James M. Barrie. Better Dead. London, 1888. Pictorial glazed wrappers; spine perished. Wolff 339. — Thomas Burke. Limehouse Nights. London, 1916. Cloth. Inscribed by the author to Crosby Gaige. Queen’s Quorum 58 (“a work of high literary art [which] became a classic overnight”). — W. W. Jacobs. The Lady of the Barge. London, 1902. First English Edition. Contains the classic horror story “The Monkey’s Paw.” Fine — Robert Hichens. The Paradine Case. London, 1933. Sides slightly discolored. The basis for the 1947 Alfred Hitchcock movie.

 Together 5 volumes, in 8s.  Original bindings. Cloth or half-morocco slipcases. First editions, except as noted.