[LITERARY MYSTERIES]. PAGE, Marco (Pseudonym of Harry Kurnitz, 1909-68). Fast Company. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Original printed wrappers; slipcase. ADVANCED PROOF COPY, printed on wrapper: "The Dodd, Mead Prize Detective Story To be published March 22nd". Page's first mystery and the first of his many works to be adapted for film. The series featured the Glass's, husband and wife bookdealers turned sleuths. -- GORDON, Neil. The Shakespeare Murders. New York: Henry Holt, [1934]. -- GRAEME, Bruce. Epilogue. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1934. -- GOODSPEED, Edgar. The Curse in the Colophon. Chicago: Willett, Clark, 1935. The author's only mystery. -- GRIERSON, Francis. Murder in Black. New York: Appleton-Century, 1935. -- CASSON, Stanley. Murder By Burial. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. The archaeologist author's first novel. -- JOHNSON, W. Bolingbroke. The Widening Stain. New York: Knopf, 1942. Together 7 volumes, 8o, FIRST EDITIONS or first American editions, original bindings; pictorial DUST JACKETS except as noted, very good condition. (7)

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[LITERARY MYSTERIES]. PAGE, Marco (Pseudonym of Harry Kurnitz, 1909-68). Fast Company. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. Original printed wrappers; slipcase. ADVANCED PROOF COPY, printed on wrapper: "The Dodd, Mead Prize Detective Story To be published March 22nd". Page's first mystery and the first of his many works to be adapted for film. The series featured the Glass's, husband and wife bookdealers turned sleuths. -- GORDON, Neil. The Shakespeare Murders. New York: Henry Holt, [1934]. -- GRAEME, Bruce. Epilogue. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1934. -- GOODSPEED, Edgar. The Curse in the Colophon. Chicago: Willett, Clark, 1935. The author's only mystery. -- GRIERSON, Francis. Murder in Black. New York: Appleton-Century, 1935. -- CASSON, Stanley. Murder By Burial. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1938. The archaeologist author's first novel. -- JOHNSON, W. Bolingbroke. The Widening Stain. New York: Knopf, 1942. Together 7 volumes, 8o, FIRST EDITIONS or first American editions, original bindings; pictorial DUST JACKETS except as noted, very good condition. (7)

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