Sale 2508 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, May 14, 2019

13 c   BRADDON,M[ARY] E[LIZABETH]. Lady Audley’s Secret. Printed in double columns. 8vo, original printed wrappers, cor- ners torn with slight loss, abrasion to back- strip with loss of several letters, scattered light soiling, ownership signature to front wrapper and title, paper restorations to wrapper edges; occasional spotting or marking to contents; cloth folding case. NewYork: Dick & Fitzgerald, [1863] [500/750] first american edition in wrappers (apparent- ly a cloth bound edition in NewYork also appeared in the same year). First issued in book form in Lon- don in 1862, where it proved immediately successful, going through eight printings in just three months. OCLC locates two copies of this edition: LOC and Brown University.An unlikely survival,with no other examples as here traced at auction. 14 c   [BURGESS, GELETT.] The Master of Mysteries. Illustrated by Karl Anderson and George Brehm. 8vo, publisher’s red blind- and yellow-stamped cloth, minor rubbing to lower extremities, spine imprint letters rubbed; original [?] glassine dust jacket, tanned; discreet bookseller’s label to front pastedown. Indianapolis:The Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1912] [400/600] first edition . “Acknowledgment of authorship was made in the book itself by means of a cipher: the first letters of the first words of the twenty- four stories read THE AUTHOR IS GELETT BURGESS; the last letters of the last words of the twenty-four stories read: false to life and false to art” (Queens Quorum 50). 15 c   BURNETT, W.R. The Asphalt Jungle. 8vo, publisher’s patterned boards, edges slightly toned, shelfwear to bottom edges; unclipped dust jacket, folds and corners rubbed, spine panel slightly sunned and minor rubbing to tips. first edition , the basis for the legendary film noir directed by John Huston starring Sterling Hayden. NewYork: Knopf, 1949 [300/400] 13 14 15