Detective Fiction

with an introduction by Boris Vian.Paris: The Vendôme Press. 1948.A fusion of prime US pulp and French sado-eroticism.First edition in English. 193x140mm. pp.201 [1]. Original wrappers. Slight creasing to upper cover and spine, a small tear and some marking and soiling to lower cover and a short tear at foot of spine at joint with lower cover. Some ink underlining in a few places. Internally very good. A nice copy of a rare and scandalous book. I shall spit on your graves first appeared in French in 1946.

London: J&C Brown & Co.. n.d.  1856. Early Detective Fiction 8vo. 158x95mm. pp. pp. iv, [2], 9-309 [1bl]. Frontispiece (some offsetting from frontispiece onto the title page opposite). This copy is undated but has the same title and imprint as the dated first edition of 1856 so we have assumed that it is from that year. Russell's works were often republished but with different titles which is not the case here. Bound with (and after) BELL, Robert The Ladder of Gold. An English Story London:G. Routledge & Co. 1858. vi, 7-440.