Sexton Blake

Sexton Blake

The Sexton Blake Library, 137 copies from the 1^st and 2^nd series, in 20 bound volumes, original wrappers bound in, full buckram gilt [with] The Union Jack Library, featuring Sexton Blake, 103 copies in 5 bound volumes, including various Christmas Numbers, 1921 – 1925 (25)

For a full breakdown of the copies included in this lot, please click on the following link: Sexton Blake lots 227, 231-236.doc

***Since first appearing in ‘The Marvel’ in 1893, the Sexton Blake saga became a publishing phenomenon, appearing in English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Dutch, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Italian, French, Arabic, Hindi and Afrikaans.

Blake initially sprang from the mind of a writer called Hal Meredith, but continued to be reimagined by over 200 different authors, including: G. H. Teed, Gwyn Evans, Anthony Skene and Robert Murray.

In April 1894, the stories began appearing in the Union Jack, and it was this pink-jacketed magazine which was to make Sexton Blake famous. They were also published in Detective Weekly and the monthly magazine the Sexton Blake Library.