First Edition. M. P. dustjacket art. Hubin listed collection of short stories, the title story "of Robin Hood city gangster, Jim Donovan, Midge, and Kitty Costello". Stories served as the basis for two black and white silent films, with Big Brother being remade in 1931 as Young Donovan's Kid produced by RKO, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper and a young Boris Karloff. Near Fine in nearly Very Good dustjacket, wear to spine and flap edges, shallow chipping to spine ends and flap corners and few edges. Item #15696

First Edition. M. P. dustjacket art. Hubin listed collection of short stories, the title story "of Robin Hood city gangster, Jim Donovan, Midge, and Kitty Costello". Stories served as the basis for two black and white silent films, with Big Brother being remade in 1931 as Young Donovan's Kid produced by RKO, directed by Fred Niblo and starring Richard Dix, Marion Shilling, Jackie Cooper and a young Boris Karloff. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #29583

First Edition. Vilma Ortiz dustjacket art, with Peter Thorpe dustjacket design. "A murder mystery introducing Police Constable Hamish Macbeth." Author's first book, written under Marion Chesney's pseudonym. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dustjacket, with slight edge rubbing an few short closed tears. Item #19642

First Edition stated. World War Two set mystery novel of occupied Paris and the chief of England's Secret Service. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with nicking and rubbing at spine ends. Item #27627

First Edition. "Professor Anselm Kreuzemark, the brilliant criminal, [is] in Barcelona visiting one of Spain's most powerful grandees. Thomas Preston, an Englishman and an old enemy of the Professor, work[s] to discover and block the Professor's plans to arouse the hidden hordes of Asia". Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1945 film-noir classic, Spellbound, that starred Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. Near Fine but for few smudges and foxing to page edges, in Very Good plus dustjacket, centimeter chip at top spine end, top edge with some wear and several very short closed tears. Item #22100

First Edition. Henry Pitz dustjacket art. Author's first book, a Hubin mystery and novel of intrigue in Europe as a diabolical secret German society plot the next World War. "No more sinister figure has appeared in fiction than Professor Kreutzemark, inventor of many new chemical concoctions" who is featured in the dustjacket art by Pitz, with the good doctor about to inject some kind of drug into the arm of a prostrate woman. Francis Beeding was the pseudonym used by a pair of writers, John Leslie Palmer (1885-1944) and Hilary Aidan St George Saunders (1898-1951). They were Oxford graduates who met while at the League of Nations in Geneva. Palmer was a drama critic who wrote books on the theatre under the pseudonym "Christopher Haddon". Saunders served with the Welsh Guards in WWI and worked for the Air Ministry in WWII, writing the famous pamphlet, The Battle of Britain. From 1946 to 1950 he was librarian of the House of Commons. They also wrote mainstream fiction under the name David Pilgrim. Almost Near Fine, spotting to top page edge, small foxed area at fore-edge of pages, heavy erasure at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket with fairly shallow chipping along top front panel and spine ends. Item #20584

First Edition. L. B. dustjacket art. Hubin listed mystery novel whose main character, Ellen Gilchrist, is found in the bibliography 'Mystery Women' by Colleen Barnett. "Percival Soames, the gentleman with a fanciful imagination and a glib tongue, and Ellen Gilchrist, now his wife, whose shrewd and canny ways have endeared her to many readers. The practical Ellen, as fresh and bustling as ever, has a hard time to manage Percival and, in spite of the matrimonial knot which now joins them, there are frequent explosions in the Soames menage". Illustration at rear jacket panel suggests gambling content. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket. Item #30723

First Edition. Dunsany dustjacket art. "Japan and Manchukuo of the present day and a striking element in the story is the assassination of two of Japan's leading statesmen. Americans, Russians, Japanese, an Englishman and a German, who are caught up in a tangled web of murder, hate, love and mystery. The murder of the Japanese statesmen, the sinking of a ship in the Yellow Sea, a man hunt by Japanese secret service agents." Author served in the First World War as a second-lieutenant with the Royal Air Force. Several of Bellah's western stories served as the basis for acclaimed films including: Fort Apache, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, and Rio Grande. Very uncommon in attractive dustjacket. Near Fine in an almost Near Fine bright dustjacket, spine ends rubbed. Item #26765

First Edition. Franty dustjacket art. Scarce western title of murder and cowmen. Scarce in illustrated dustjacket. Near Fine in Very Good-Near Fine dustjacket, inch closed tear at front panel, small chip at top spine end. Item #7031

First Edition. Hubin listed novel of intrigue set in contemporary China, surrounding a young man of Chinese and Anglo-Saxon parents who becomes a leader of the "New China" movement. Great stylized wrap-around dustjacket art. Author's first novel. Very Good, some areas of mild cloth discoloration, in Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, half dollar sized chip at mid spine. Item #35062

First American Edition. O. B. dustjacket design, H. Richard Boehm color plates. "J. K. Gill Company Special Edition" statement at title page. Extremely rare Bleiler listed fantasy novel to be found in original decorative thin-paper dustjacket. A contemporary review states: "The author of ' Dodo' has written a ' thriller.' It is a spiritualistic story. Mr. Benson sets part of his story in the East, and part in London, and tells it in a manner to keep the reader wide awake and interested to the end". Not found in Hubin despite the "thriller" aspects of the novel and the theme of opium addiction. Near Fine bright copy in Very Good dustjacket, shallow chipping at spine ends, nickel sized chip at top front panel, some narrow strips of paper tape at verso at some edges. Item #21006

Early Reprint Edition. N. B. dustjacket art. An uncommon edition of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery novel, with presumably the first appearance of this dustjacket artwork depicting a golf-course scene. Perhaps published in order to bank on the popularity of the 1929 Howard Hawk's feature film, starring Raymond Griffith. Near Fine but for contemporary gift inscription at front endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket, chipped at spine ends, some mild soiling. Item #31054

First Edition. A string of murdered art collectors and art dealers brings Special Agent Stephen Duane of the F.B.I. onto the case. Very Good, cloth wear at spine ends and cover corners, in Very Good plus dustjacket, light spine end chipping, few short closed tears and minor edge wear. A scarce mystery title by this obscure publisher. Item #8472