Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

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A.B. Cox | Jugged Journalism, 1925 [together with:] Mr Priestley's Problem, 1927

Lot Closed

February 4, 03:07 PM GMT

Estimate

600 - 800 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Anthony Berkeley Cox


Two volumes, comprising:


Jugged Journalism. London: Herbert Jenkins, 1925, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, 32 plates by George Morrow, original green cloth lettered in black, DUST-JACKET, slight browning to endpapers, front free endpaper creased, dust-jacket slightly soiled and with "OFFERED AT | 1/-" label;


Mr Priestley's Problem. London: W. Collins Sons, 1927, FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in red, DUST-JACKET, some browning and spotting, bookplate, very minor loss to dust-jacket


RARE IN DUST-JACKET


Jugged Journalism includes a 'lesson' on literary style in which the author writes a Sherlock Holmes story in the style of P.G. Wodehouse.


PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection