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BLACK LAND WHITE LAND.
Garden City, New York: Published for the Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel.
THE CAT'S WHISKER ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1944. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-223, original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK in 1945 by Macdonald as DEAD MAN'S EFFECTS. Mr. Fortune investigates murder and sabotage during World War II. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 41].
HONOUR AMONG THIEVES.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1947. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-191 [192: blank], original gray boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 41].
MEET MR. FORTUNE: A REGGIE FORTUNE OMNIBUS.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-12] [1] 2-546 [547-548: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in red, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. An omnibus volume collecting a novel, THE BISHOP'S CRIME (1940) and twelve stories featuring Reggie Fortune, plus "Mr. Fortune," an essay by Bailey introducing his fictional sleuth. [Reference: Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 2336. Hubin (1994), p. 41].
MR. CLUNK'S TEXT.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1939. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-303 [304-306: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE VERON MYSTERY (1939). [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 42].
MR. FORTUNE FINDS A PIG.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] [1] 2-269 [270: blank], original blue gray cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Mr. Fortune investigates a mysterious outbreak of typhus fever in a remote village in Wales during World War II. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 41].
THE TWITTERING BIRD MYSTERY.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-299 [300: blank], original red cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained red, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. The fourth novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as CLUNK'S CLAIMANT (1937). [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 41].
THE WRONG MAN.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1945. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [11-4] 5-6 [7-8] 9-252 [253-254: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original burgundy cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. The UK edition was published in 1946 by Macdonald. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 42].
PILGRIMS THROUGH SPACE AND TIME: TRENDS AND PATTERNS IN SCIENTIFIC AND UTOPIAN FICTION.
NY: Argus Books, [1947]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "...the first scholarly study of the root of the genre, and thus exerted a profound influence on later historians and anthologists..." "Despite its almost exclusive focus on pre-World War I works, Bailey's study remains readable and useful." Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-15. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 8-15].