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Auction No 400, Category: Fiction

6 Lots (displaying 1 - 6)

John Dickson Carr (a.k.a. Carter Dickson), a collection of Crime fiction paperbacks, mostly by Penguin, plus Pan and few others,

Lot: 11

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £40
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John Dickson Carr (a.k.a. Carter Dickson), a collection of Crime fiction paperbacks, mostly by Penguin, plus Pan and few others, including few 1st printings, with some scarcer title noted. Two with ink marks on front, no internal inscriptions. Fair to fine. (27)

John Le Carre "A Murder of Quality", Victor Gollancz, September,1962, 1st Edn, second impression; octavo, original publisher’s red cloth,

Lot: 12

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
UNSOLD
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John Le Carre A Murder of Quality, Victor Gollancz, September, 1962, 1st Edn, second impression; octavo, original publisher's red cloth, spine faded, and slightly rolled, but gilt lettering still clear; hinging weak between pp 30/31 and a 2” tear at top of inner margin of pp.29/30 needing attention, o/w fine internally without inscriptions or foxing. A VG example of one of Le Carre's scarcest early works in the Gollancz imprint.           

Arthur Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, P.G. Wodehouse, and others "The Strand Magazine" Vols.62 & 63, July 1921 to June 1922,

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £250 - £300
SOLD £200
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, P.G. Wodehouse, and others. The Strand Magazine Vols.62 & 63, July 1921 to June 1922, original pictorial cloth, gilt, VG, including Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone, The Problem of Thor Bridge and two other stories by Doyle; seven short stories by Wodehouse; and Churchill's Painting as a Pastime complete including the colour illustrations. Browning to endpapers and hingeing a little weak in a couple of places o/w fine internally. (2)  

Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley and others. "The Strand Magazine", Vol.65, January-June 1923, original pictorial cloth, VG,

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £80 - £100
SOLD £60
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Arthur Conan Doyle, P.G. Wodehouse, Aldous Huxley and others. The Strand Magazine, Vol.65, January-June 1923, original pictorial cloth, VG, including the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Creeping Man and Doyle's The Cottingley Fairies: An Epilogue, plus five stories by Wodehouse, and Aldous Huxley's A Deal in Old Masters. This volume lacks a preliminary index but has an ‘Important Forthcoming Features' page prior to the main text. Browning to endpapers o/w fine internally.

Arthur Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, P.G. Wodehouse and others. "The Strand Magazine", Vols. 66 and 67, July 1923 to June 1924,

Lot: 42

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £300 - £400
SOLD £200
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Arthur Conan Doyle, Winston Churchill, P.G. Wodehouse and others. The Strand Magazine, Vols. 66 and 67, July 1923 to June 1924, original pictorial cloth, gilt, Vol. 67 with slight bruising to front cover and spine rather faded, o/w VG; including Churchill's My Escape from the Boers complete in two parts; the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire, plus Doyle's The Forbidden Subject and Memories and Adventures; eleven stories by P.G. Wodehouse, coloured glamour illustrations by Suzanne Meunier, and full-page colour cartoons by Heath Robinson. Endpapers browned o/w fine internally. (2)

Lt. Col. Frederick S. Brereton "The Dragon of Pekin: A Tale of the Boxer Rebellion", Blackie & Son, [1922]; octavo, pictorial cloth, near fine;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 21st Apr 2021 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
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Lt. Col. Frederick S. Brereton The Dragon of Pekin: A Tale of the Boxer Rebellion, Blackie & Son, [1922]; octavo, pictorial cloth, near fine; abrasions to front pastedown (removal of old bookplate), endpapers browned, and occasional minor tone mark in margin affects a few pages. Seven b/w plates.