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THE APPREHENSIVE DOG ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club, Inc. by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1942. Octavo, pp. [1-2] [i-iv] v-vii [viii] [1-2] 3-294, original terra cotta cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained terra cotta, fore and bottom edges rough-trimmed, white endpapers. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. Published in the UK as NO MURDER (1942). Hubin (1994), p. 41.
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. 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. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
THE LIFE SENTENCE ...
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1946. Octavo, pp. [1-4] [1-4] 5-6 [7-9] 10-250 [251-252: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original red boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. First U.S. edition. A Reggie Fortune novel. 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. 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). 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. Hubin (1994), p. 41.
ORPHAN ANN.
Garden City: Published for The Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1941. Octavo, pp. [i-vi] vii-viii [ix-x] [1] 2-307 [308-310: blank] [note: last leaf is a blank], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained blue, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed, cream endpapers. First U.S. edition. A novel featuring shyster lawyer Joshua Clunk. Published in the UK as THE LITTLE CAPTAIN (1941). 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). 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. Hubin (1994), p. 42.
THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY.
Garden City, NY, and Toronto: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921. Octavo, pp. [1-6] [1-2] 3-313 [314: colophon] [315-316: blank], jacket and frontis illustration by John Newton Howitt, original green cloth, front and spine stamped in black. First edition. Author's first mystery novel. Hubin, p. 60.
ALLAN QUATERMAIN: BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS FURTHER ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES IN COMPANY WITH SIR HENRY CURTIS, BART., COMMANDER JOHN GOOD, R.N. AND ONE UMSLOPOGAAS ...
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1887. Large octavo, pp. [i-ix] x [xi] xii [1] 2-335 [336] [note: Scott counts frontispiece and flyleaves as part of his collation of preliminary and terminal leaves but the former is inserted and not an integral part of gathering (A) and the latter are not part of gatherings (A) or Y], flyleaves at front and rear, twenty inserted plates with mounted illustrations by C. H. M. Kerr printed on India paper, other illustrations (also printed on India paper) affixed to text leaves, title leaf printed in orange and black, original brown pebbled cloth with brown morocco shelf back, spine lettered in gold, vertical gold rules on front and rear panels, green and gold marbled endpapers, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed. First edition. One of 112 numbered copies comprising the special issue on large paper (this is copy number 62). "The lost-race novel par excellence, setting up many of the motifs and fictional patterns that became an integral part of the subgenre ... As fiction, one of Haggard's more successful works ... Historically, of course, it is one of the most important nineteenth-century works of popular fiction." - Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 973. Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 2-86; (1981) 1-87; (1987) 1-44; and (1995) 1-44. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 377. Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 101. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature, pp. 22-5. Bleiler (1978), p. 89. Reginald 06520. Wolff 2839. Scott 7A. Whatmore F6.6.a.
MONTEZUMA'S DAUGHTER ...
New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] vii-viii [ix] x [1] 2-328 + [8]-page publisher's catalogue inserted at rear, 24 inserted plates with illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen, original apple green cloth, front panel stamped in brown, spine panel stamped in brown and gold. First U.S. edition. Published in November 1893 (announced in Publishers Weekly 11 November 1893) and may have preceded the British edition published 13 November 1893. McKay assigns priority to this U.S. edition. Both Scott and Whatmore, in error, describe a later printing with title page dated 1894 and copyright statement erroneously dated 1892 on copyright page. Bleiler (1978), p. 90. Reginald 06554. McKay 19. Scott 20A. Whatmore F16.6.f.
THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST.
London: Longmans & Co., 1894. Octavo, cloth. First edition.
SHE...
London: The Readers Library Publishing Company Ltd., n.d., [c. late 1920s]. Small octavo, original decorated maroon boards, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Later printing. Popular mass reprint edition. This edition of the title includes a two page editor's note commenting on the death of Haggard (May 14, 1925) and some biographical and bibliographical information. The Readers Library was established in 1924 to bring well known novels at the cheapest price to readers.
THE LOST CAVERN AND OTHER TALES OF THE FANTASTIC ...
New York: The Vanguard Press, Inc., [1948]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] [1-2] 3-262 [263-264: blank] [note: first and last leaves are blanks], original gray boards, front and spine panels stamped in green, top edge stained yellow green, fore-edge untrimmed. First edition. Collects four novellas, including "The Cup," perhaps the best of Heard's fantasies. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 3-83. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 785. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1544-46.
MURDER BY REFLECTION ...
New York: The Vanguard Press, [1942]. Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-283 [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. Hubin (1994), p. 388.
THE BODY IN THE BILLIARD ROOM.
New York: Viking, 1987. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Inspector Ghote.
DEATH OF A FAT GOD.
New York: Dutton, 1966. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Mrs. Craggs.
INSPECTOR GHOTE HUNTS THE PEACOCK.
New York: Dutton, 1968. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
IS SKIN-DEEP, IS FATAL.
New York: Dutton, 1965. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition.
MRS CRAGGS: CRIMES CLEANED UP.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1985. Octavo, boards. First U.S. edition.
MURDER MUST APPETIZE.
New York: The Mysterious Press, 1981. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Non fiction on early 20th century British detective fiction.
THE SHERIFF OF BOMBAY.
Garden City: The Crime Club/Doubleday, 1984. Octavo, Hardcover. First U.S. edition. Inspector Ghote.