- 2 Frassetto Way - Lincoln Park, NJ 07035
Princess Maria Romanoff & July Estate Finds
Lot 375:
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (British, 1893-1957). 8 books. Unnatural Death, third impression, 1929, Ernest Benn Limited, London; Busman’s Honeymoon: A Love Story With Detective Interruptions, first edition – third printing, 1937, Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York; with Robert Eustace, The Documents in the Case, Ernest Benn Limited, London, first edition – second impression, 1931; Gaudy Night, Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, first edition, 1935; Hangman’s Holiday, first edition, 1933, Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York; In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Stories, Victor Gollancz, London, first edition, 1939; Clouds of Witness, Ernest Benn Limited, London, reprinted 1929 edition; The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Ernest Benn Limited, London, first edition – second impression, 1930.
All as is, with fraying, bumped corners, staining and scratches to boards and spines, foxing and discoloration to pages, notations in pencil on endpapers and pastedowns, losses and fraying to cloth on covers and spines, some warping to boards; Unnatural Death boards separating and taped; Busman’s Honeymoon boards separating, holes to spine; Gaudy Night tears and losses to spine, holes punched in pages; Hangman’s Holiday holes punched in pages, fraying and losses to spine and boards; Clouds of Witness and Unpleasantness with staining to covers.
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