Highlights of Potter & Potter‘s Tremendous Books & Manuscripts that includes Thriller & Detective Literature sale on July 24 embody:
* a whole run of Crimson Star Thriller (New York: The Frank A. Munsey Firm, June 1940 – Dec. 1940), a uncommon, short-lived thriller pulp starring Don Diavolo, the Scarlet Wizard, a crime-fighting magician created by writer and illustrator Clayton Rawson writing as Stuart Towne
* Liam O’Flaherty’s The Murderer (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928), a signed first version with writer’s mud jacket – O’Flaherty devoted this guide to ‘My Collectors’
* H. Rider Haggard (1856-1925), a gaggle of 13 first editions (Lysbeth, Eric Brighteyes, Cleopatra, Allan Quatermain, Mr. Meeson’s Will (first printing), The Yellow God, The Woman of Blossholme, Montezuma’s Daughter) and first American editions (Stella Fregelius, Allan the Hunter, The Yellow God, The Woman of the Heavens, Margaret), plus clipped signature framed with an image of Haggard. From the gathering of fantasy/sci fi collector Greg Phillips.
* Agatha Christie’s The Seven Dials Thriller (New York: Dodd, Mead & Firm, 1929), first American version with writer’s mud jacket
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles (London: George Newnes, 1902), frontispiece and 15 illustrations by Sidney Paget, first version with the misprints present in all subsequent printings
