Lot: 25
Penguin Crime Fiction, a collection 1940s to early 1960s with much 1950s, including 75 first printings in Penguin. Fair to fine. (123)
Lot: 26
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.
Lot: 33
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.]
Lot: 54
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)
Lot: 62
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.
Lot: 63
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)