Auction No 432, Category: Crime

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

Penguin Crime Fiction, a collection 1940s to early 1960s with much 1950s, including 75 first printings in Penguin. Fair to fine. (123)

Lot: 25

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £42
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Penguin Crime Fiction, a collection 1940s to early 1960s with much 1950s, including 75 first printings in Penguin. Fair to fine. (123)

Agatha Christie "The Pale Horse", Collins Crime Club, 1961, First Edition, signed by Agatha Christie on title page, fine,

Lot: 26

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £800 - £1200
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Agatha Christie The Pale Horse, Collins Crime Club, 1961, First Edition, signed by Agatha Christie on title page, fine, in a complete slightly worn d/jkt.

David Jay Brown (1954-2004): "War Song", 1974, oil on board- backed canvas, 20 x 16”. Signed & inscribed on reverse. Painted while on Death Row

Lot: 33

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
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David Jay Brown (1954-2004): War Song, 1974, oil on board-backed canvas, 20 x 16”. Signed & inscribed on reverse. Painted while on Death Row in McAlester prison, Oklahoma. Bumped upper left corner. [Brown was executed for murder in 2004. Vendor's research notes accompany this lot.]

Crime reference works including Lloyd Trott "Mafia, a select annotated bibliography", Cambridge, 1977; Kent & Flynn "The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook"

Lot: 54

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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Crime reference works including Lloyd Trott Mafia, a select annotated bibliography, Cambridge, 1977; Kent & Flynn The Lizzie Borden Sourcebook, Boston, 1992, in d/jkt, signed by the authors; John Cumming Bibliography Dealing with Crime and Cognate Subjects, London, 1935 (2 copies); and various others. (11)

"Conclusion of the Trial of Laurence Balfe and Edward McQuirk for the Murder of George Clarke, at Brentford Election". S.Bladon, London, 1769.

Lot: 62

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £40
SOLD £32
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Conclusion of the Trial of Laurence Balfe and Edward McQuirk for the Murder of George Clarke, at Brentford Election. S.Bladon, London, 1769. A pamphlet, disbound, 16pp, browning to front cover. 

"The Woman in the Cage on London Bridge"; "The manner of burying Wm.Wiseman in the Fields, who died in Prison";

Lot: 63

  • Auction Date: Wed 19th Feb 2025 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £60
SOLD £30
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The Woman in the Cage on London Bridge; The manner of burying Wm.Wiseman in the Fields, who died in Prison; Twenty Two Prisoners in one Band from Colchester to London; and The Burning of Rose Allins Hand by Edmund Tyrill. 18th Century copper engravings, two engraved by Thomas Bowles, Approx 6.5 x 8”. On watermarked paper of the period. Large margins. Fine. (4)