The Urgent Hangman - Inscribed to Dennis Wheatley -
Peter Cheyney
1938 - Collins, London - First Edition
Dennis Wheatley’s copy, inscribed by Peter Cheyney ‘To my good friend Dennis’ and dated ‘14. 6. 38’. With Wheatley’s illustrated bookplate.
A near fine copy of the first ‘Slim Callaghan’ novel, in fine and thus rare dust jacket.
Cheyney’s action-filled and action filled plots ran counter to the comfortable murder mysteries of the time, and Slim Callaghan was, like his American hard-boiled cousins, cynical tough and marginally mannered. Reginald Southouse (Peter) Cheyney (1896-1951) was the first British writer to admit the influence of the American Hard-boiled school.
Provenance: From the library of Dennis Wheatley with his bookplate.
References: Herbert, ‘The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing’, 201. Reilly,’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 300.
Octavo (book size 19.8 x 13 cm), pp. 252 [4 (author promo and books)]. In publisher’s orange cloth, spine lettered and ruled in black, front board with author’s signature stamped in black. Dust jacket priced 7s. 6d. net to lower corner of front flap. Condition: Near fine, light foxing to edges, and to first few pages, else clean solid, in fine dust jacket Ref: 109481 Price: HK$ 15,000
A near fine copy of the first ‘Slim Callaghan’ novel, in fine and thus rare dust jacket.
Cheyney’s action-filled and action filled plots ran counter to the comfortable murder mysteries of the time, and Slim Callaghan was, like his American hard-boiled cousins, cynical tough and marginally mannered. Reginald Southouse (Peter) Cheyney (1896-1951) was the first British writer to admit the influence of the American Hard-boiled school.
Provenance: From the library of Dennis Wheatley with his bookplate.
References: Herbert, ‘The Oxford Companion to Crime & Mystery Writing’, 201. Reilly,’Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers’ (1980), 300.
Octavo (book size 19.8 x 13 cm), pp. 252 [4 (author promo and books)]. In publisher’s orange cloth, spine lettered and ruled in black, front board with author’s signature stamped in black. Dust jacket priced 7s. 6d. net to lower corner of front flap. Condition: Near fine, light foxing to edges, and to first few pages, else clean solid, in fine dust jacket Ref: 109481 Price: HK$ 15,000