Golden Age Detective Fiction.

Browne, Howard. The Taste of Ashes, Simon and Schuster, 1957, first edition, dust-jacket, signed by the author--Crispin, Edmund. Beware of the Trains, 1972 Reissue; Fen Country, Gollancz, 1979, first edition, dust-jacket; Hare, Cyril. Suicide Excepted, Macmillan, 1954, first American edition, dust-jacket; Tragedy at Law, reprint; With a Bare Bodkin, Faber, 1946, first edition, dust-jacket, 5mm. loss to top and bottom of spine of dust-jacket; When the Wind Blows, Faber, 1949, first edition, dust-jacket, tiny chips to top and bottom of spine of dust-jacket; An English Murder, Faber, 1951, first edition, dust-jacket, tiny chips to top and bottom of spine of dust-jacket; He Should have Died Hereafter, Faber, 1958, first edition, dust-jacket, thin 20mm. chip to base of dust-jacket, taking out the “F” in Faber, jacket repaired with tape internally; Best Detective Stories of Cyril Hare, Faber, 1959, first edition, dust-jacket; Innes, Michael. Death at the President’s Lodgings, 1937 reprint; Hamlet, Revenge!, Gollancz, 1937, first edition, wear to spine, boards marked; Lament for a Maker, Gollancz, 1938, first edition, spotting to page edges, wear to spine ends; Lament for a Maker, Dodd, Mead, 1938, first American edition,  dust-jacket, slight wear to spine ends of jacket, generally in excellent condition; Stop Press, reprint 1939; Operation Pax, Gollancz, 1951, first edition; Appleby Talking, Gollancz, 1954, first edition; Hare Sitting Up, Gollancz, 1959, first edition; The New Sonia Wayward, Gollancz,1960, first edition, dust-jacket; The Bloody Wood, Gollancz,1966, first edition, dust-jacket; another copy, reprint; Appleby at Allington, Gollancz,1968, first edition, dust-jacket; Appleby’s Other Story, reprint; Lorac, E.C.R. Death on the Oxford Road, reprint; The Case of Colonel Marchand, reprint; Fire in the Thatch, Collins Crime Club, first edition, no front endpaper, sticker removed from front pastedown; Rawson, Clayton. Death from a Top Hat, Putnam, 1938, first edition, dust-jacket, thin 20mm. small chip to base of dust-jacket spine, jacket repaired lightly with tape internally, book itself near mint; Sayers, Dorothy L. In the Teeth of the Evidence, Gollancz, 1939, first edition; Symons, Julian. The Killing of Francie Lake, Collins Crime Club, 1962, first edition, dust-jacket, Slight damp spotting, dust-jacket lightly creased on back panel, signed presentation copy from the author; Vickers, Roy. The Department of Dead Ends, Faber, 1949, first edition, dust-jacket, tiny chip to base of dust-jacket spine; Murder Will Out, Faber, 1950, first edition, dust-jacket, small chips to top of dust-jacket spine



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