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A Study In Scarlet.
New York, NY: William L. Allison Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Bookplate of Herbert F. Mitchell to front pastedown. Heavily browned throughout. Spine toned and lightly rubbed, with a...... More
A Study In Scarlet.
Rahway, NJ: The Mershon Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.iv; 216 [4]. Publisher's maroon cloth with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt. Clean and bright internally, with just a hint of browning to endpapers. Some toning and water sprinkling to spine..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
New York, NY: Hurst and Company, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.176. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Rear hinge badly split, with fly-leaf detached; front fly-leaf nearly detached. Extremely heavily browned and brittle throughout. Quite..... More
A Study In Scarlet.
London: Ward, Lock & Co., no date [circa 1905]. [Sherlock Holmes] VINTAGE COPY. Small octavo (16 x 11cm), pp.255 [1]. With a black and white half-tone frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind decoration to upper. Somewhat cocked, and rather well-read. Gently toned throughout. Light rubbing..... More
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A Study In Scarlet. [A Case of Identity].
Chicago, MI: Donohue, Henneberry & Co., no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.230. Publisher's cream cloth with gilt titles to spine and black decoration to spine and upper. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf. Extremely browned and brittle throughout. Title page nearly detached, with chipping..... More
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A Study In Scarlet. [My Friend the Murderer and The Man from Archangel].
New York, NY: George Munro's Sons, no date [circa 1900]. [Sherlock Holmes] PIRATE EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.177 [1]; 20; 97-122 [2]. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Binding detached and re-applied with glue quite roughly to spine, creating a tight back. Front fly-leaf detached, with some..... More
A Games of Murder.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1975. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION, REVIEW COPY EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a 'review copy' slip loose to preliminaries, as well as a bookplate detailing provenance. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews..... More
Romance of a Spy.
London: Hurst and Blackett, 1945. Octavo, pp.192. Bound in publisher's green cloth, in a green pictorial dustjacket depicting characters from the book with a map. Advertisements to rear panel. Cloth in excellent condition with very limited signs of wear. Dustjacket creased with several minor losses, although colour remains very bright..... More
The Pattern.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. [Crime Mystery] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[12] 290 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author 'with thanks' in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
Confetti for a Killing.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1937. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.280; [8]. Publisher's secondary binding of red cloth, black titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Nina Miller Davidson. Neat ownership to flyleaf, light spotting and dustiness to edges. Jacket clipped and repriced at 4/6..... More
Sheer Silk.
London: Gerald G. Swan, 1946. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 173 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and blind to upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy, with..... More
Murder Off Broadway.
London, John Hamilton Ltd. c 1930. 8vo. Publisher's bright orange cloth, lettered in black, in pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to extremities with slight fading to spine, trivial spotting to page edges, dust to top edge, very good. Attractive, rather fragile dust jacket with some chips and small losses, including..... More
The Late Uncle Max.
London: MacDonald. 1957. First edition. Octavo, pp. 192. Publisher's black cloth with yellow titles to spine, dynamic pictorial dustjacket. Small pen annotation on flyleaf, plus a small area of rough surface where a sticker or similar has been removed, some staining to the top edge. Dustwrapper shows well with just..... More
Casino Royale.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.218; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper over boards with red titles and 'heart' design to upper, tail edge untrimmed, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. Some light toning and mild spotting, jacket with some chips and..... More
Ian Fleming's James Bond Novels, as published by MJF Books. Comprising: Casino Royale, Live and Let Die, Moonraker, Diamonds Are Forever, From Russia With Love, Dr. No, Goldfinger, For Your Eyes Only (short stories inc. From A View To A Kill, Quantum of Solace), Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, You Only Live Twice,
New York, NY: MJF Books, 1994. [James Bond] COMPLETE MJF BOOKS EDITIONS. 12 volumes, octavo (21 x 14 x 29cm). Publisher's hardbacks in illustrated dust-wrappers. A fine/as new set, housed in a custom-made felt-lined cloth slipcase with ribbon pull. A handsome collection. The entire run as published in America by..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1965. FIRST ISSUE, SECOND STATE, BINDING D. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.221. Publisher's brown cloth-effect paper over boards with bronze lettering to the spine, plain covers, patterned green endpapers. In the original pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Richard Chopping priced at 18s. Edges spotted/toned, jacket with a few..... More
The Man With the Golden Gun.
New York, NY: The New American Library, 1966. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[8] 183 [1]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and blue leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge blue; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket in blue-grey, titled in yellow. A...... More
Live and Let Die (a James Bond novel).
London: Jonathan Cape, 1954. [James Bond] FIRST ISSUE, Second State. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.240. Publisher's black cloth-effect paper-covered boards, titled and decorated in gilt, with dust-wrapper, priced twice as issued, at 10/6. With 'author's skill' text incorrectly spaced to the rear panel, as described in the bibliography, page 61..... More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1965. [Spy novel] Dollar Mystery Guild Uniform Edition. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.211 [13]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and red leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the sand-coloured dust-jacket. A nice clean copy with just a...... More
The Amaranth Club.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [1930s]. [Mystery] First Ward Lock Edition. PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's grey-green cloth, titles in black to spine and upper, dust-jacket by Abbey, with printed price of 3/6s net. Publisher's file copy signified by paper label to the upper..... More
Bid for Fortune.
Edinburgh: The Moray Press, 1934. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.278 [6]. Publisher's blue cloth with darker blue titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket designed by 'VCB,' priced at 7/6. Light browning and spotting to top edge. Very light offsetting to endpapers. Light wear to board..... More
Eye of the Needle.
London: Macmillan, 1998. [WWII Spy Thriller] FIRST THUS, a reissue. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 464 [4]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the red photographic dust-jacket, priced at £17.99. A fine copy. The book which made Follett's name, and his first international best-seller, originally published as..... More
The Stone Leopard.
London: Collins, 1975. [Cold War Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 245 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £3.00. Light spotting and browning to edges. Jacket spine sunned. Near fine. More
Payment Deferred
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Mystery novel. First Edition. 8vo.; pp.304 + 8 (adverts). Original red cloth, lettered to spine and upper cover in gilt. Occasional light spotting, joints a little rubbed, minor sunning to back-strip. An attractive example. A Hubin- listed crime title, and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone..... More
The Day of The Jackal.
London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, SECOND IMPRESSION ('Reprinted before publication'). Octavo, pp.358 [4]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the glossy dust-jacket designed by Tom Simmonds and Trevor Vertigan, priced at £2.00. Some spotting to top edge, and a little toning to..... More