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AN AFRICAN MILLIONAIRE: EPISODES IN THE LIFE OF THE ILLUSTRIOUS COLONEL CLAY.
London: Grant Richards, 1897. Octavo, pp. [i-vii] viii [1] 2-317 [318: blank] [319-320: ads], illustrations by Gordon Browne, original pictorial green cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on rear panel, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. "The first great rogue of mystery fiction," Colonel Clay, "preceded ... Raffles by two years ..." - Queen's Quorum 21. Glover and Green, Victorian Detective Fiction 4. Queen, The Detective Short Story, p. 4. Hubin (1994), p. 11.
THE RELUCTANT HANGMAN AND OTHER STORIES OF CRIME...
Boulder, CO: The Aspen Press, 1973. Octavo, illustrated by Alfred Pearse and Sidney Paget, pictorial yellow wrappers. First edition. Limited to 500 copies. Three stories, "The Great Ruby Robbery" and "The Conscientious Burglar" collected earlier in IVAN GREET'S MASTERPIECE (1893), the title story, original published as "Jerry Stokes," THE STRAND March 1891, apparently published here for the first time in a book.
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. 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], original yellow cloth, front and spine stamped in black, top edge stained black, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. First U.S. edition. Mystery novel. Dust jacket designed by Boris Artzybasheff. "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.
BLACK'ERCHIEF DICK...with an introduction by William McFee.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-xvi [xvii-xviii] 1-302 [303-304: blank], original brown cloth, front and spine stamped in gold. First U.S. edition. The author's first novel. An adventure novel of piracy and smuggling written when the author was just eighteen.
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.
THE CHINA GOVERNESS: A NOVEL OF SUSPENSE.
Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1962. Octavo, cloth. First edition. The Doubleday edition preceded the 1962 Chatto & Windus edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion.
DANCERS IN MOURNING.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-14] [1] 2-336 [337-338: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, endpaper maps. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion. "A splendid achievement, not only as a plot but as an exhibition of a group of characters ... Very nearly her second masterpiece" - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 33. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
DANCERS IN MOURNING.
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1937. Octavo, pp. [1-14] [1] 2-336 [337-338: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original black cloth, spine panel stamped in orange, top edge stained orange, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, endpaper maps. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring sleuth Albert Campion. "A splendid achievement, not only as a plot but as an exhibition of a group of characters ... Very nearly her second masterpiece" - Barzun and Taylor, A Catalogue of Crime 33. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
THE FASHION IN SHROUDS.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. Octavo, pp. [1-10] [1] 2-310, original blue green cloth, spine panel stamped in silver, top edge stained red, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. 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. 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. Hubin (1994), p. 13.
THE MINDREADERS.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First edition.
MORE WORK FOR THE UNDERTAKER.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1949. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. An Albert Campion detective novel.
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. 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.
DECEPTION.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2003]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Altman on the title page. Suspense/thriller novel.
A GAME OF SPIES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2002]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by Altman on the title page. Spy thriller set during WW II.
A GATHERING OF SPIES.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2000]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's first novel. Spy thriller set in 1943 involving Atomic secrets.
THE WATCHMEN.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, [2004]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Suspense/thriller novel.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Jamaica, New York: Radio-Science Publications, Inc., 1930. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "The Black Star Passes" by John W. Campbell, Jr. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Jamaica, New York: Experimenter Publications, Inc., 1929. Octavo, single issue, cover by H. W. Wesso, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes Edmond Hamilton, "The Other Side of the Moon." An ancient Earth civilization was nearly destroyed by climate change and they relocated to the moon, they now want to return and take over the planet." Bleiler, Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years, 549. Also fiction by A. Hyatt Verrill, David H. Keller, M.D. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Dunellen, N. J. Teck Publishing Corporation, 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "Seeds of Life" by John Taine. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Dunellen, N. J. Teck Publishing Corporation, 1934. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. The final issue. Published as Volume 7 Number 2 this continues the error started two issues previous. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Dunellen, N. J. Teck Publishing Corporation, 1932. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
Jamaica, New York: Radio-Science Publications, Inc., 1931. Octavo, single issue, cover by Morey, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "Islands of Space" by John W. Campbell, Jr. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.
AMAZING STORIES QUARTERLY.
New York: Experimenter Publishing Co., 1929. Octavo, single issue, cover by Frank R. Paul, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine, bedsheet format. Includes "Ralph 124C41+" by Hugo Gernsback. Tymn and Ashley (eds), Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Weird Fiction Magazines, pp. 51-57.