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    • Nicholas Blake. Lot of Three First Editions.
      Jun. 22, 2021

      Nicholas Blake. Lot of Three First Editions.

      Est: $120 - $240

      Lot includes The Deadly Joker. London 1963 DJ Torn in Back, The Widow's Cruise. London 1959 & A Penknife in My Heart. London 1958. From the Otto Penzler Collection.

      Weiss Auctions
    • Nicholas Blake. Lot of Three First Editions.
      Jun. 22, 2021

      Nicholas Blake. Lot of Three First Editions.

      Est: $120 - $240

      Lot includes A Penknife in My Heart. NY 1948 DJ , A Tangled Web. London 1956 DJ, Minute For Murder London 1947 DJ. From the Otto Penzler Collection.

      Weiss Auctions
    • Nicholas Blake. Lot of Three First Editions.
      Jun. 22, 2021

      Nicholas Blake. Lot of Three First Editions.

      Est: $120 - $240

      Lot includes The Dreadful Hollow 1953 1st DJ, The Morning After Death London 1966 1st DJ & The Morning After Death. From the Otto Penzler Collection.

      Weiss Auctions
    • Nicholas Blake. Lot of Two First Editions.
      Jun. 22, 2021

      Nicholas Blake. Lot of Two First Editions.

      Est: $120 - $240

      Lot includes Head of a Traveller. London. 1949 1st DJ and The Sad Variety. London. 1964. From the Otto Penzler Collection.

      Weiss Auctions
    • NICOLAS BLAKEY (BRITISH, FL.1739-1758)
      Mar. 18, 2009

      NICOLAS BLAKEY (BRITISH, FL.1739-1758)

      Est: £3,000 - £5,000

      NICOLAS BLAKEY (BRITISH, FL.1739-1758) Portrait of James Francis Edward Keith (1696-1758), three-quarter-length, in armour, a red sash at his waist signed inscribed and indistinctly dated 'N.Blakey pinxit/1739' (beneath the sitter's left arm) oil on canvas 46 x 33½ in. (117 x 85 cm.)

      Christie's
    • BLAKE, NICHOLAS.
      Dec. 15, 2005

      BLAKE, NICHOLAS.

      Est: £600 - £700

      COLLECTION OF 16 VOLUMES, COMPRISING: A Question of Proof, Collins Crime Club, 1935, first edition, facsimile dust-jacket; another copy; Thou Shell of Death, 1936, first edition, facsimile dust-jacket; a reprint of the same title; The Beast Must Die, Collins Crime Club, 1938, first edition, dust-jacket, 10mm. loss to top of spine of dust-jacket, affecting lettering, 3mm loss to base of spine, not affecting lettering, closed tears and chips; Malice in Wonderland, Collins Crime Club, 1940, first edition, later issue dust-jacket priced 4s.6d.; Minute for Murder, Collins Crime Club, 1947, first edition, dust-jacket , a few closed tears and marks to dust-jacket; Head of a Traveller, Collins Crime Club, 1949, first edition, dust-jacket , a few closed tears to dust-jacket, a couple of chips, one affecting lettering at base of spine; The Dreadful Hollow, Collins Crime Club, 1953, first edition, dust-jacket , a few closed tears and small chips to jacket, couple of damp marks to page edges; The Whisper in the Gloom, Collins Crime Club, 1954, first edition, dust-jacket , a few closed tears and small chips to jacket; End of Chapter, Collins Crime Club, 1957, first edition, dust-jacket , a few small chips to jacket; The Worm of Death, Collins Crime Club, 1961, first edition, dust-jacket , few chips to jacket; The Deadly Joker, Collins Crime Club, 1963, first edition, dust-jacket; The Sad Variety, Collins Crime Club, 1964, first edition, dust-jacket , a few closed tears to jacket that have been repaired; The Morning After Death, Collins Crime Club, 1966, first edition, dust-jacket , no front endpaper, library stamps, a few chips to spine of jacket; The Private Wound, Collins Crime Club, 1968, first edition, dust-jacket , a few closed tears to jacket; 8vo (16) NOTE Nicholas Blake was a pseudonym of Cecil Day Lewis (1904 -- 1972) who was Poet Laureate at the time of his death. His first crime novel A Question of Proof was based upon his experiences whilst teaching at Summer Fields, the Oxford preparatory school. He went on to write twenty detective novels. His series detective was Nigel Strangeways, partly based on the author's friend W.H. Auden.

      Sotheby's
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