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Auction No 413, Category: Crime

12 Lots (displaying 1 - 12)

Selection of Crime Fiction hardbacks, all in d/jkts, including Agatha Christie and other popular authors; several are first editions,

Lot: 14

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £56
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Selection of Crime Fiction hardbacks, all in d/jkts, including Agatha Christie and other popular authors; several are first editions, a few with ownership inscriptions. Fair to fine, mostly good/VG. (38)     

Crime Fiction selection with several first editions, all (bar one) in dustjackets, mixed condition. (36)

Lot: 38

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Crime Fiction selection with several first editions, all (bar one) in dustjackets, mixed condition. (36)  

Crime Fiction UK first editions, a selection in d/jkts, in mixed condition; Agatha Christie's "After the Funeral" a poor copy in a VG d/jkt

Lot: 39

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Crime Fiction UK first editions, a selection in d/jkts, in mixed condition; Agatha Christie's After the Funeral a poor copy in a VG d/jkt, complete though edgeworn, small internal tape-repair; Raymond Chandler's The Long Good-Bye near fine in a damaged d/jkt with pieces missing. (6)

Crime Fiction selection, all (bar one) first editions in d/jkts; mixed condition, Colin Watson's rare "Coffin Scarcely Used" (1958) in a VG d/jkt

Lot: 40

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £15
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Crime Fiction selection, all (bar one) first editions in d/jkts; mixed condition, Colin Watson's rare Coffin Scarcely Used (1958) in a VG d/jkt has the front endpaper removed and foxing to half-title. (9)

Crime Fiction selection, all in d/jkts. Rex Stout "Three Witnesses" 1956, and Harry Carmichael "A Question of Time" 1958 are 1st Edns

Lot: 41

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £10
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Crime Fiction selection, all in d/jkts. Rex Stout Three Witnesses 1956, and Harry Carmichael A Question of Time 1958 are 1st Edns both in poor condition (the latter ex-library) but in the scarce good/VG d/jkts. Mixed condition. (9)

Caroline Graham "The Killing at Badger's Drift", Century Hutchinson, 1987, 1st Edn in fine d/jkt, light tanning to text;

Lot: 43

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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Caroline Graham The Killing at Badger's Drift, Century Hutchinson, 1987, 1st Edn in fine d/jkt, light tanning to text; Berkeley Gray Alias Norman Conquest, 1945, 1st Edn and Six Feet of Dynamite, 1947, both in damaged d/jkts, former recased with new endpapers; Dolores Hitchens The Abductor, Boardman, 1962, 1st Edn, orig. cloth, a little frayed; and other crime fiction. Mixed condition. (11)

Agatha Christie reprint novels, 1990s to 2013, mostly Collins facsimiles, some issued by Book Club Associates. All in fine d/jkts.

Lot: 44

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £30 - £40
SOLD £20
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Agatha Christie reprint novels, 1990s to 2013, mostly Collins facsimiles, some issued by Book Club Associates. All in fine d/jkts. No ownership inscriptions. (20)

Ngaio Marsh "Vintage Murder", Geoffrey Bles, 1949 in good edgeworn d/jkt, ownership stamp to front endpaper, library stamp on copyright page

Lot: 45

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £30
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Ngaio Marsh Vintage Murder, Geoffrey Bles, 1949 in good edgeworn d/jkt, ownership stamp to front endpaper, library stamp on copyright page (no other markings) foxing to fore-edge; and other Ngaio Marsh crime including Spinsters of Jeopardy, Collins, 1954, 1st Edn in slightly chipped d/jkt, A Man Lay Dead Collins 1981 in VG d/jkt and others in mixed condition. (14)

John D. Macdonald novels including "The Moving Target", Alfred Knopf, 1949, in price-clipped d/jkt, browned throughout;

Lot: 46

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £20
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John D. Macdonald novels including The Moving Target, Alfred Knopf, 1949, in price-clipped d/jkt, browned throughout; Murder for the Bride, Robert Hale, 1977, 1st UK Edn.in price-clipped d/jkt; Wine of the Dreamers Greenberg, 1951, 1st Edn, in complete but heavily tape-stained d/jkt, endpapers browned; and a selection of others in mixed condition, three ex-library. (10)

John Rhode fiction comprising "The Vanishing Diary", Geoffrey Bles, 1961, 1st Edn, in worn d/jkt, the book in VG condition;

Lot: 47

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £10
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John Rhode fiction comprising The Vanishing Diary, Geoffrey Bles, 1961, 1st Edn, in worn d/jkt, the book in VG condition; The Motor Rally Mystery, 1938, p/bk in chipped wraps; and a poor copy of Robbery with Violence, 1957 in repaired d/jkt and ink marks to publications list. (3)  

Georges Simenon first editions including "Maigret Goes to School", 1957, worn cloth, in chipped & browned d/jkt;

Lot: 48

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £15 - £20
SOLD £10
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Georges Simenon first editions including Maigret Goes to School, 1957, worn cloth, in chipped & browned d/jkt; of the others two have facsimile d/jkts, another ex-library. (5)  

Selection of Crime Fiction and Thrillers including first editions by Brian Flynn and Miles Burton, the Ian Fleming titles both ex- library.

Lot: 58

  • Auction Date: Wed 9th Nov 2022 12:00 GMT (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £22
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Selection of Crime Fiction and Thrillers including first editions by Brian Flynn and Miles Burton, the Ian Fleming titles both ex-library. Mixed condition. (6)