Lot: 8
The Strand Magazine 1891-1892, four volumes, Vols. 2-4 with the complete text of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Vol.1 in publisher's cloth, others in half-leather, gilt. Binding of Vol.1, worn, inner-hinge cracked; others with some discolouration to the cloth-covered boards o/w sound, some minor spotting to text. (4)
Lot: 10
The Strand Magazine, George Newnes, 1891-1895 complete in 10 volumes, with The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and other Conan Doyle stories. Cloth bound with gilt leather titles, some moderate wear, occasional light foxing. (10)
Lot: 24
First Edition Fiction 1952 to 2000s, chiefly Crime and Thrillers, five signed by the author o/w uninscribed, all (bar one) in complete d/jkts, fine, no foxing. (32)
Lot: 39
[Abolition of the Death Penalty] William Sandford Phillips Considerations on the Increase and Progress of Crime, accompanied by documentary evidence as to the propriety and necessity of a revision and amendments of the existing penal statutes. With a View to the Abolition of corporeal punishments; and more particularly The Awful Penalty of Death. Liverpool, 1839. Octavo. Fine 20th Century rebind in gilt quarter-calf, marbled boards; viii, 83pp, lacking prelimary pages v & vi otherwise fine internally.