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BLACK PLUMES.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-270 [271-272: blank], original yellow cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel. Dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
BLACK PLUMES.
New York: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1940. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1] 2-270 [271-272: blank], printed wrappers. Advance reading copy of the first edition. Mystery novel. Advance proof copy sent to the trade with a printed note from the editor on the cover. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
CARGO OF EAGLES.
New York: William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1968. Octavo, boards. First edition. An Albert Campion mystery, the author's last, completed by her husband after she passed away.
CORONER'S PIDGIN.
London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Albert Campion novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 13].
CORONER'S PIDGIN.
London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., [1945]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Albert Campion novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 13].
THE FASHION IN SHROUDS.
London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-437, [438-440: blank], original green cloth, spine stamped in gold, publishers device in blind to rear cover, grey-green end papers. First edition. Inscribed and signed on second free end paper by Allingham, with a note of provenance from a family member. An Albert Campion novel. "Margery's masterpiece" - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 36. "Margery Allingham was one of the three major Englishwomen mystery writers of the 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction' -- the other two. of course, being Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 15. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
THE FASHION IN SHROUDS.
London, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd, [1938]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 1-437, [438-440: blank], original green cloth, spine stamped in gold, publishers device in blind to rear cover, grey-green end papers. First edition. An Albert Campion novel. "Margery's masterpiece" - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 36. "Margery Allingham was one of the three major Englishwomen mystery writers of the 'Golden Age of Detective Fiction' -- the other two. of course, being Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers." - Pronzini and Muller, 1001 Midnights, p. 15. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
THE GYRTH CHALICE MYSTERY: AN ALBERT CAMPION DETECTIVE STORY.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 11-321 [322: ad] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed, pictorial endpapers. First U.S. edition. "An early story with good scenes and relieved from murder by elegant robbery and clerical personages, but somewhat touched by by the excessive lightheartedness of the period." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989) 66. Published in the UK as LOOK TO THE LADY. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
THE GYRTH CHALICE MYSTERY: AN ALBERT CAMPION DETECTIVE STORY.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., [1931]. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii 11-321 [322: ad] [note: text complete despite gap in pagination], original black cloth, front and spine panels stamped in red, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed, pictorial endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Campion mystery. "An early story with good scenes and relieved from murder by elegant robbery and clerical personages, but somewhat touched by by the excessive lightheartedness of the period." - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime (1989) 66. Published in the UK as LOOK TO THE LADY. [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
THE MINDREADERS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
MORE WORK FOR THE UNDERTAKER.
London, Melbourne, Toronto: William Heinemann Ltd., [1948]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. An Albert Campion novel. [Reference: Hubin, p. 13].
MR. CAMPION CRIMINOLOGIST ... SEVEN IMPORTANT EPISODES FROM THE CASE BOOK OF ALBERT CAMPION.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1-2] 3-308 [309-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained red, other edges rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First edition. The Doubleday, Doran edition includes a novelette, "The Case of the Late Pig," and two stories, "The Case of the Man with the Sack" and "The Case of the Pro and the Con," not included in the UK edition published two years later by Heinemann as MR. CAMPION AND OTHERS. [Reference: Queen's Quorum 92. Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 32 and 2311. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 13].
NO LOVE LOST: TWO STORIES OF SUSPENSE...
Kingswood, Surrey: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., [1954]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Two stories of murder.
THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion. "Though her postwar work generally received poorer reviews than earlier work had, one book, THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE (1952), the story of a manhunt in London's underworld, received high praise. Julian Symons considered it her best book ..." - Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 7. "... one of the peaks of crime fiction," - Keating, Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books 47. Basis for the classic 1956 British film noir, directed by Roy Baker (oddly omitting Albert Campion). [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1952. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion. "Though her postwar work generally received poorer reviews than earlier work had, one book, THE TIGER IN THE SMOKE (1952), the story of a manhunt in London's underworld, received high praise. Julian Symons considered it her best book ..." - Steinbrunner and Penzler, Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection, p. 7. "... one of the peaks of crime fiction," - Keating, Crime & Mystery: The 100 Best Books 47. Basis for the classic 1956 British film noir, directed by Roy Baker (oddly omitting Albert Campion). [Reference: Hubin (1994), p. 13].
WANTED: SOMEONE INNOCENT AND OTHER STORIES.
New York: Stamford House, [1946]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Pony Book 56. Collects the title story and three others, "The Sexton's Wife," "'Tis Not Hereafter," and "He Was Asking After You."