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Dorothy L. Sayers. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935.

Price: US$26.66 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 4th edition. General wear to boards with corners bumped, splits to the spine ends and a lean. Hinges are a bit cracked. Content has some spotting, marks on the outer edge pages and writing on the ffep. No DJ.

Seller: BoundlessBookstore, Wallingford, United Kingdom

Sayers, dorothy l.. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London 1935, 1935.

Price: US$97.51 + shipping

Description: First edition,Original publisher's black clothbound hardback, gilt. No dust jacket. 483pp., Showing minor rubbing and wear, few small marks, slight opening crease to the spine, some foxing to titles and edges, lacking front endpaper otherwise internally clean, bright and tight with no ink marks or writing. 15132.

Seller: Holybourne Rare Books ABA ILAB, Alton, United Kingdom

Sayers, Dorothy, L.. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz, London, 1935, 1935.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good in black cloth with gilt titles. 1st Printing. A clean, firm copy with a little rubbing to spine titles. Previous owner's name and date (Christmas 1935) on the first endpaper. Previous owner's small bookplate on the front pastedown.

Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.

Sayers, Dorothy, L.. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1935.

Price: US$162.52 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 5 x 7¾" pp. 483. Very good in original black boards with yellow lettering to spine. Slight rubbing and staining to front board. Firm and tight, mild foxing to first 5 and last 5 pages, but otherwise text is clean and bright with no marks or stains. No labels or inscriptions with the exception of the initials DW and the date 11/49 in pencil on the last page of the book. First edition, first printing. No dustwrapper.

Seller: Raddon House Books, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom

Dorothy L. Sayers. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz, London, 1935.

Price: US$247.03 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A smart copy of the first edition, first impression of this 1935 mystery from Dorothy L. Sayers. Sayers' tenth novel featuring amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey, and the third to feature detective novelist Harriet Vane.A thrilling adventure, in the dons of Vane's old Oxford College invite her to attend the annual 'Gaudy' celebrations. A series of malicious acts - including poison-pen messages, obscene graffiti and wanton vandalism - ensue, prompting Harriet to call upon Wimsey to investigate.Sayers was a prolific author of crime fiction during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, and one of the 'Queens of Crime', alongside notable others such as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Fading to back strip, with bumping to spine head and tail, with small splits in the cloth to these regions. Front hinge strained, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Sayers, Dorothy L.. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz, London, 1935.

Price: US$475.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. 483 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Attractive copy of this mystery featuring Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey, set in the fictional Shrewsbury College at Oxford University, during the women's college Gaudy or reunion in the summer of 1935. "Did even feminists consider Dorothy Sayers a 'serious' twentieth-century novelist until they discovered Gaudy Night? I know many who didn't (I was one)" - Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing. Gilbert A21 Black cloth. Near fine, fresh copy without the rare dust jacket (spine title slightly rubbed)

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1935.

Price: US$650.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo, 483 pages; publisher's black cloth, spine lettered in orange. A lovely copy of the 10th Lord Peter Wimsey novel; internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. Gaudy Night. Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1935.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Sayer's third mystery to feature Harriet Vane, companion of Lord Peter Wimsey. Almost Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, some darkening at spine, shallow chipping at spine ends and flap corners.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.