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The Sign of the Four

By: Doyle, A. Conan

Price: $103.13

Publisher: Chicago, E.A. Weeks and Company:

Seller ID: Books012141

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

193 pages. Boards soiled; foxing to firsr few and final few leaves and occasionally within. 1907 pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is sound.
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His Vision. The Dream of Number Thirty-One [Multum In Parvo Library Vol. 4, No. 38]

By: Doyle, Arthur Conan [W. E. Cule]

Price: $1,134.38

Publisher: Boston, Multum In Parvo: 1897

Seller ID: Books012533

Binding: saddle stapled wrapper

Condition: Very Good

16 pages. 4 x 2.8 inches. Excellent condition, with no rust to staple. The story had appeared a few months earlier, in the 2 January 1897 issue of Chambers's Journal, under the authorship of W. E. Cule (pp. 12-15). Uncommon; we have handled only four of these in 40 years.
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The Mystery of the Painted Nude [Murder Most Artistic]

By: Gore, William [Godfrey Jervis Gordon]

Price: $309.38

Publisher: Garden City, NY, The Crime Club / Doubleday, Doran & Co.: 1938

Seller ID: Books010522

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

vi, 287 pages. Spine sunned and covers unevenly so; extremities rubbed. Publisher's orange topstain. Light offsetting to endpapers; a solitary tick of ink to front free endpaper. Contents clean and binding sound. First edition stated. Uncommon. Published in the UK by Harrap as Murder Most Artistic.
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Give Me Death

By: Myers, Isabel Briggs

Price: $1,012.50

Publisher: New York, Burt / Blue Ribbon: 1934

Seller ID: Books012536

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

292 pages. The Burt reprint of the Stokes first. Follow-up to her prize-winning Murder Yet To Come, Give Me Death "revisits the same trio of detectives half a decade later. ... novel's virulently racist plot: One by one, members of a land-owning Southern family begin committing suicide when they are led to believe that 'there is in [our] veins a strain of Negro blood.' Despite their differences, the detectives agree that it is 'better for [the family] to be dead' than for them to be alive, heedlessly reproducing with white people. Give Me Death is more explicitly about the preservation of the ...
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The Nine Tailors

By: Sayers, Dorothy L.

Price: $1,031.25

Publisher: London, Victor Gollancz: 1936

Seller ID: Books012637

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

350 pages. "First Cheap Edition". Seventh impression January 1936. Jacket spine and edges toned. Toning and light foxing to textblock edges; ownership signature and light foxing on front free endpaper; leaves toned. Binding is sound.
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Roger Merrit's Crime [Multum In Parvo Library Vol. 4, No. 40]

By: Wilcox, Ella Wheeler

Price: $68.75

Publisher: Boston, Multum In Parvo: 1897

Seller ID: Books012531

Binding: saddle stapled wrapper

Condition: Good

14 pages (of 16). 4 x 2.8 inches. Front wrap split along spine but holding at staple, lacks the advert leaf (pages 14/15) at rear.
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Category: Detective / Mystery

The Sign of the Four

His Vision. The Dream of Number Thirty-One [Multum In Parvo Library Vol. 4, No. 38]

The Mystery of the Painted Nude [Murder Most Artistic]

Give Me Death

The Nine Tailors

Roger Merrit's Crime [Multum In Parvo Library Vol. 4, No. 40]