SAYERS, DOROTHY L. 1893-1957. Gaudy Night. London Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935.

The Library of David Lloyd, Part ISAYERS, DOROTHY L. 1893-1957.
Gaudy Night. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1935. 8vo. Publisher's black cloth titled in gilt on spine, yellow dust jacket printed in red and black. Covers slightly rubbed, spine ends bumped, jacket browning, sunned on spine, chips and some creasing around edges, stain on front panel, large chip on top edge of back panel.FIRST EDITION OF THE FIRST FEMINIST MYSTERY NOVEL, FIRST ISSUE, with "ver" for "very" on p 157, line 22. Called the godmother of feminist detective fiction, the forerunner to modern writers Gillian Flynn and Tana French, Dorothy Sayers author-cum-detective Harriet Vane teams up with Peter Wimsey to get to the bottom of a string of terror-inducing mysteries at the fictional women's college Shrewsbury, at Oxford. Gilbert A21a1.