Crime & Thrillers
Try Anything Twice.
London: Collins, 1948. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. A very clean copy of the book in a slightly edge-worn wrapper with a neat closed tear at the foot of the spine. Near fine. A...... More
I'll Say She Does.
London: Collins, 1945. [Spy thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth, titles in blue to spine, with striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. Signed by the author, dated 1st July 1946. Lightly used; near fine. Ownership signature of Eileen M. Cond, a noted collector..... More
Blue Moon.
London: Bantam Press, 2019. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 404 [6]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine, orange endpapers, and all edges cyan. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
The Enemy. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 393 [1]. Number 83 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Gone Tomorrow. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2017. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 421 [1]. Number 77 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Hard Way. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 371 [3]. Number 79 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Midnight Line.
London: Bantam Press, 2017. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 391 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. Blue endpapers and all edges blue. With the dust-jacket designed by Stephen Mulcahey, priced at £20. 'Signed..... More
No Middle Name. The Complete Collected Jack Reacher Short Stories.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2017. [Thriller Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] viii; 418 [6]. Number 26 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles..... More
Nothing to Lose. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2016. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 407 [3]. Number 76 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
One Shot. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 376 [2]. Number 86 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Persuader. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2014. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.xii; 342 [2]. Number 84 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine and..... More
Running Blind [aka The Visitor]
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 360. Number 93 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in blue ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Without Fail.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2014. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 374. Number 85 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
Worth Dying For. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xii; 384 [8]. Number 84 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
The Riddle of the Sands. A Record of Secret Service.
London: The Folio Society, 1992. [Spy Thriller] FIRST THUS. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.296. With reduced versions of the original maps and charts, as well as 12 full-page black and white illustrations by Whistler. Vignette illustrations by Whistler also to chapter headings. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles and brown..... More
The Riddle of the Sands.
London: Smith Elder and Co., 1903. [Espionage novel] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 336 [8]. Illustrated with maps and charts, including a folding frontispiece. Bound in black full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt ruling to boards. Top edge gilt..... More
The Riddle of the Sands.
London: Smith Elder and Co., 1903. [Espionage novel] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] xii; 336 [8]. Illustrated with maps and charts, including a folding frontispiece. Bound in black full morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and gilt ruling to raised bands and covers..... More
Spider's Web.
London: Harper Collins, 2000. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. [6]; 241; [9], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white to spine, illustrative dust-jacket. Small spider illustration at the start of chapters. Toning to edges of textblock, small markings from a green gel pen throughout the..... More
The Unexpected Guest.
London: Harper Collins, 1999. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. [4] 177 [11]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in silver to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Andrew Davidson, priced at £14.99. Toning to edges of textblock, with a little light handling. Near Fine. When a stranger runs..... More
4.50 From Paddington.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the red and black illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 12s. 6d. to front flap. Cloth fresh and bright, contents clean..... More
After the Funeral.
London: Collins for the Crime Club, 1953. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beytagh, priced at 10/6. No inscriptions. A lightly used copy, jacket with a few short tears, minor discolour and spotting to..... More
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, Dumb Witness, Taken at The Flood, They Came to Baghdad, Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, After the Funeral, The Body in The Library, Halloween Party, The Pale Horse, The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Endless Night, The Man in The Brown Suit, Ordeal by Innocence, One, Two Buckle my Shoe, Cards On the Table, N or M?, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock, Partners in Crime, Sad Cypress, Nemesis, A Pocketful of Rye and Destination Unknown.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972. [Mystery / Crime] LEATHER BOUND SET. Complete in 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Handsomely bound in black half oasis morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spines, and navy cloth over boards. A few minor spots to volume containing 'Lord Edgware..... More
The Agatha Christie Crime Collection: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, Murder on the Orient Express, Murder at The Vicarage, A Murder is Announced, Murder is Easy, The ABC Murders, Murder in The Mews, Murder in Mesopotamia, Murder on the Links, Lord Edgeware Dies, Mrs McGinty's Dead, Dead Man's Folly, The Hound of Death, Appointment with Death, Death on The Nile, Death in The Clouds, Death Comes as the End, Peril at End House, Crooked House, The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding, Poirot's Christmas, Poirot Investigates, Parker Pyne Investigates, They Do it with Mirrors, The Mirror Crack'd, The Clocks, The Seven Dials Mystery, The Listerdale Mystery, The Sittaford Mystery, A Caribbean Mystery, The Mystery of The Blue Train, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, And Then There Were None, Five Little Pigs, Third Girl, The Big Four, The Thirteen Problems, Towards Zero, Three Act Tragedy, The Hollow, The Moving Finger, 4.50 From Paddington, Passenger to Frankfurt, Evil Under the Sun, At Bertram's Hotel, Why Didn't They Ask Evans, Dumb Witness, Taken at The Flood, They Came to Baghdad, Sparkling Cyanide, The Secret of Chimneys, After the Funeral, The Body in The Library, Halloween Party, The Pale Horse, The Secret Adversary, By the Pricking of My Thumbs, The Mysterious Mr Quin, Endless Night, The Man in The Brown Suit, Ordeal by Innocence, One, Two Buckle my Shoe, Cards On the Table, N or M?, Cat Among the Pigeons, The Labours of Hercules, Hickory Dickory Dock, Partners in Crime, Sad Cypress, Nemesis, A Pocketful of Rye and Destination Unknown.
London: Paul Hamlyn, 1969-1972. [Mystery / Crime] COMPLETE SET AS PUBLISHED. In 24 volumes. Octavo (20 x 14 x 82cm). Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to red backing on spines, and further gilt and red decoration to uppers. Top edges and endpapers orange. All volumes with the original photographic..... More
And Then There Were None (under its original "Ten Little N..." title, 1944). A Play in Three Acts.
London: Samuel French, 1944. [Drama] FRENCH'S ACTING EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.82. With a monochrome plate of the set layout opp. p.5, 'furniture and property plot' illustration is on p.76. Printed blue card softcovers priced 5s. Some underlining/stage direction else clean within. Moderate toning and wear to extremities, spine..... More
At Bertram's Hotel.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1965. [Crime Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed, with the original cloth spine bound in..... More