Mr Fortune Wonders

Garden City: Crime Club/Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1933. Eight stories of crime-solving surgeon Reggie Fortune. Stated first [American] edition (first printing). Hardcover, missing jacket, as pictured. Book shows some wear, minor stains, ink names written & rubberstamped in several places. Text clean; xii, 324 pages; each story with a red leaf presenting the title, a drawing, and brief teaser/synopsis. .… Read more about this item

Edwin Mellen Pr, 1985. First edition. Unknown. Good +. Hardback no dust jacket no edition stated presumed first, minor edge wear

NYS Reformatory at Elmira, NY, 1894. 8.75" X 6.25" in two-tone cloth with fancy Victorian-style lettering. Inside front and back covers [only] darkened. Reason unknown; wear, esp. near fore edge of front cover; some puckered cloth on back cover. The balance of the book is clean, tight, and unmarked: VERY GOOD MINUS. Interesting photos of prison and inmates. 2 fold-out… Read more about this item

London: Ward Lock, 1933. First Edition. Hard Cover. First UK Edition. Publisher's brown boards with black lettering to the spine and front board. Boards really bright and clean. Spine tips a little pushed. Page block really bright and un-foxed. A neat former owner's name and contemporary date and a collection reference to the… Read more about this item

Garden City: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc. For The Crime Club, Inc., 1933. This short story collection b Henry Christopher Bailey (1878-1961) features his series charcter Reggie Fortune, a medically qualified detective. This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition [stated]. Hubin, p. 19. An uncommon title. Black cloth binding with a striking ilustration in red on the… Read more about this item