Hi - I can't find any values for the constable 1st edition of Patrick Hamilton's Hangover Square. I know it's very scarce. Pub details: 1941, Constable, UK. close to very good in good+ (some chips and frayed edges) dustwrapper. Any guesses would be helpful. Thanks in advance. Jim

Since I am not terribly familiar with this book, I'll simply repeat what little I could find. A copy of the first American edition (1942) was sold at a Bloomsbury auction last year for roughly $380 in U.S. currency, but in a lot containing 3 other Hamilton titles, so it's impossible to establish what Hangover Square by itself would have sold for. However, since you have the first edition, yours should be worth more.



A copy of the Constable 1941 first edition sold at a Sotheby's auction last year for $3,300. However, this copy included a 60-word inscription from the author, which, naturally, adds substantially to the value (though I don't know how much of the price is attributable to this). Online, I find one copy of this edition for sale, for $155, but this copy was rebound, which significantly detracts from its value.



One more thing to watch for. I believe there were at least two printings of this first edition in 1941. The first is likely to be substantially more valuable than the second. The second evidently was reprinted in September of 1941 and so states. I don't know whether the first, as best I can tell published in August, so states or is silent on this point. As just a wild guess, I'd say that if you have the second printing in the condition you describe, it is probably worth several hundred, while a first edition first printing may be somewhere into four figures, though not the $3,300 that an inscribed copy sold for.