Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

Detective Fiction Including The Alexis Galanos Collection

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Roger Fairbairn [John Dickson Carr] | Devil Kinsmere, 1934

Lot Closed

February 4, 03:40 PM GMT

Estimate

1,500 - 2,000 GBP

Lot Details

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Roger Fairbairn [John Dickson Carr]


Devil Kinsmere. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1934


FIRST EDITION, 8vo, original black cloth lettered in yellow, DUST-JACKET, minor loss to corner of half-title, slightly soiled dust-jacket frayed at extremities with minor loss


RARE IN DUST-JACKET


A novel by John Dickson Carr, published under the pseudonym of Roger Fairbairn, and subtitled "...a Record of the Part said to have been Played by Roderick Edward Kinsmere, of Blackthorn in the County of Somerset, in Certain Affairs of Murder and Secret Diplomacy; Also, of the Unpardonable Antics of Certain Saucy Ladies and Sword-Rattling Gentlemen, at the Court of his Most Unpardonable Majesty, King Charles the Second..."


PROVENANCE

The Alexis Galanos Collection

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