Mystery from Robert Dagg Rare Books

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1930. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Very good to near fine in fine bright dust jacket complete with wraparound band (short tear to band). Crime Club.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, [1946]. FIRST EDITION. Some foxing to page edges. Owner inscription on front flyleaf. A very good copy in dust jacket which has had the price on the spine panel punched out (the book apparently originated in Australia where this is a common method of "price-clipping" British jackets. Some scattered foxing to… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1940].. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Some foxing to top edges of pages, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with some minor restoration at top edge. Nice copy of the second Maigret volume published in America.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929. FIRST EDITION. Spine of book faintly creased.. Else a near fine copy in a fine brght dust jacket. Nice copy of this early Crime Club title.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Cloth very slightly faded at spine else a near fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket which has only very minor restoration at edges. A particularly attractive copy of the fourth Philip Marlowe novel.

New York: The Viking Press, 1943.. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Near fine copy in dust jacket with a few minor nicks at edges.. Nice crisp copy.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, [1954]. FIRST EDITION. Fine in a fine dust jacket

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1929.. FIRST EDITION. First of only two mysteries by this author. Very good book in a fine bright dust jacket with some creasing to rear panel. Crime Club.

Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1939. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Cloth a little faded at edges. Very good otherwise in a near fine dust jacket, bright and crisp with only minor wear at edges, primarily as base of spine. Basis for the 1941 Fritz Lang --directed film starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett and Roddy McDowall.

Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928.. FIRST EDITION. Author's only mystery. Cloth somewhat soiled at spine. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket with staining to rear panel. An uncommon Crime Club title.

New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, [1952].. FIRST EDITION. Bright near fine copy in dust jacket. Late novel by the author of They Shoot Horses Don't They.

New York: Simon and Schuster, [1952]. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with one small chip at top of rear panel, a tear at bottom of front flap fold and some slight creasing to bottom of front panel. The author's second and probably scarcest book.

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Clean, near fine copy in a bright crisp dust jacket with some minor restoration to flap folds. A very nice copy of the author's scarce first book.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969. FIRST EDITION. A near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. His second book but the first published under his own name. Made into the 1971 movie by Robert Wise, starring Arthur Hill, Kate Reid & David Wayne.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Cloth rather soiled on front cover. Pastedowns browned and spotted. Else very good to near fine in a very good dust jacket with a few tiny nicks at edges and with some shallow chipping at top of spine. Basis for the 1943 film direced by Raoul Walsh,… Read more about this item

New York: Harper & Brothers, 1937. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Some offsetting and spotting to endpapers. Top edges of pages somewhat foxed. Cloth clean. A near fine copy in dust jacket, unusually bright, with some minute restoration at spine ends and edges. Front flap neatly price-clipped. Nigel Strangeways mystery.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Fine in a dust jacket rather faded at spine, but with only very minor edgewear.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1943. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine in dust jacket slightly faded at spine panel with a couple tiny closed edgetears.

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine book in a very good dust jacket with a chip and a couple tears at bottom of spine panel. Some creasing to rear panel of jacket.

New York: William Morrow & Company, [1944].. FIRST EDITION. Rear board with some faint dampstaining to upper margin. Penny-sized area of sticker residue to front flyleaf. A very good copy otherwise in a jacket that would be near fine but for a clipped front flap.