Small Austin J Ames (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Black cloth with titles in red; lacking the dust jacket. Mild age-toning to the spine, faint foxing to the endsheets, else a very good copy. "Why was it that nothing red could be kept in Gairlie Castle? Red flowers, red vases, red match boxes, lipstick, all vanished with lightning rapidity. Then the famous Gairlie collection of rubies disappeared from Lady Gairlie's dressing table--and three strange murders followed the theft. Scotland Yard set its keenest man-hunter on the mystery. yet he was baffled until the case reached a denouement ingenious, startling, yet perfectly believable."--Publisher's blurb. An uncommon Crime Club publication.…

8vo. [8], 287, [3] pp. Black cloth, red lettering on front cover & spine (minor bumping to couple corners, slight lean), w/ d.j. Art Deco cover art by Maurer of a giant hand reaching down to seize a house (couple minor closed tears, edgewear), VG-/VG copy. First Crime Club edition, stated, of this science fiction mystery published in the UK the same year under his pen name "Seamark" featuring a mad scientist intent on destroying the World using his Death Ray to dissolve matter and scatter the residue to the University. Published posthumously after the author's suicide in 1929.…