£100 - £150
Americana. Crime Fiction: McVoy (Horace), They Shoot Horses, Don't They?, first edition, New York: Simon Schuster, 1935, creased ffeps, lacking dj, cloth, slight twist, 8vo; Hughes (Dorothy), Dread Journey, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, November 1946, original pictorial dustjacket designed by Lili Cassell, green cloth, 8vo; Higgins (George V.), Dreamland, first UK edition, London: Secker & Warburg, 1977, dj, hb, 8vo; Parker (Robert B. Parker), The Judas Goat, first edition, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978, dj, hb, 8vo; Queen (Ellery), The Devil to Pay, first edition, Cleveland and New York: The World Publishing Company, February 1946, original pictorial dustjacket over grey cloth, 8vo; another Ellery Queen first edition, dj, hb, 8vo; Harris (Thomas), Red Dragon, first UK edition, London: The Bodley Head, 1982, dj, hb, 8vo; etc., (9)
Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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