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

Early Reprint Edition. N. B. dustjacket art. An uncommon edition of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone mystery novel, with 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. Very Good, modest cocking, in near Very Good dustjacket, chipping at spine ends and flap corners, some mild staining to spine. Item #24473

First Edition. Very scarce Bentley title, a sequel that took over twenty years to appear. Near Fine, some fading at lower spine end in nearly Very Good dustjacket, lower spine end chipped half inch deep, shallow chips at flap corners and top spine end, lower rear panel with about three square centimeters of loss, rubbing to panels. Item #21235

First American Edition. Brewster dustjacket art. Popular French author's mystery novel translated by Anne Green with horror elements. The work is set in the French countryside and concerns a priest with a dark secret and who discovers a double homicide. Near Fine, moderate cocking, in Very Good dustjacket, small chip and rubbing at top spine end, some creasing and signs of some shelf wear to edges. Item #14541