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Pulp Fiction 1930's M.W. Glidden lot of original manuscripts

$ 5.27

Availability: 100 in stock
  • Region: North America
  • Material: Paper
  • Subject: Literature
  • Date of Publication: Unknown
  • All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
  • Language: English
  • Type: Typescript
  • Original/Facsimile: Original

    Description

    Up for auction is the following lot of items from M.W. Glidden.
    1) Eleven (11) M.W. Glidden original, single-sided, typed manuscripts from the 1930's - 1940's
    2)
    Outlet Book Company contract for her story, “Death Strikes Home”
    3) Avon
    Publications rejection letter for her story, “Death in Laughter”.
    All items are in good condition considering their age:  yellowing of the paper, some creases, some small rips, some rust marks from paper clips (paper clips are removed), and the first page of "Sweet Trail of Death" is ripped in half.  All manuscripts are complete except for one (see note below).
    Manuscripts
    1.
    “The Black Crypt”, 14 pages
    2.
    “Slick Work”, 13 pages, 3828 words
    3.
    “Grandma, of the Detective Bureau”, 20 pages
    4.
    “That Beak of Ben’s”, 5 pages
    5.
    “The Ghost that Rocked”, 17 pages
    6.
    “Death in Laughter”, 19 pages
    7.
    “Grandma, of the Detective Bureau”, by Tootles Watkins, 21 pages (incomplete)
    8.
    “The Roach Scents Crime”, 15 pages
    9.
    “Sweet Trail of Death”, 13 pages
    10.
    “Dangerous Hideaway”, 2 pages
    11.
    “Hot Day – Hot Love”, 13 pages
    Minna Wesselhoeft Glidden, known in the publishing world as M.W. Glidden, wrote pulp fiction stories in the 1930's and 1940's. Two of her works were published in 1937 by Phoenix Press: "Death Strikes Home" and "The Long Island Murders".  Those works are mentioned in the annotated crime fiction bibliography of the Lending Library Publishers, "Murder at 3 Cents a Day", by William F. Deeck.
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