[AMERICAN AUTHORS]. An extensive collection, together 47 volumes, most FIRST EDITIONS, most 8o, original bindings; DUST JACKETS except as noted, condition varies, including: LAWES, Lewid E., Warden. Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing. New York, 1932. -- BESTOR, George Clinton. Prelude to Murder. New York, [1936]. -- SMITH, Willard K. Bowery Murder. Garden City, 1929. -- COBB, Irvin S. Faith, Hope and Charity. Indianapolis, [1934]. Queen's Quorum 89. -- CUNNINGHAM, A.B. Murder at the School House. New York, 1940. -- TALBOT, Hake. The Hangman's Handyman. New York, 1942; The Rim of the Pit. New York, 1944. -- PROPPER, Milton. The Case of the Cheating Bride. New York, 1938. -- CLASON, Clyde. Poison Jasmine. Garden City, 1940. -- ABBOT, Anthony. About the Murder of Geraldine Foster. New York, [1930]. ADVANCE COPY in original pictorial wrappers; The Shudders. New York, [1943]. --STEEVES, Harrison R. Good Night, Sheriff. New York, [1941]. -- STRANGE, John Stephen. Look Your Last. Garden City, 1943. -- KUNGSBERG, Harry. Doowinkle, D.A. New York, [1940]. -- COHEN, Octavus Roy. Jim Hanvey, Detective. New York, 1923. (Lacking dust jacket.) -- CAMERON, Donald Clough. Grave Without Grass. New York, [1940]. -- TRAIN, Arthur. Tutt and Mr. Tutt. New York, 1920. (Lacking dust jacket.) Queen's Quorum 67; Manhattan Murder. New York, 1936. -- KING, Rufus. Malice in Wonderland. Garden City, 1958. -- MARKHAM, Virgil. Red Warning. New York, [1933]. -- And 27 others, majority lacking dust jackets. A short-title list is available on request. (47)