Crime & Thrillers
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Hilda Wade.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. A used copy with some shelfwear,rubbed to extremities, gilt illustration rubbed to upper, discreet owner stamp to flyleaf, inside paper joint cracked. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne..... More
Nobody Lives Forever.
Cleveland & New York: The World Publishing Company, 1945. [Crime thriller] FIRST MOTION PICTURE EDITION. Octavo (21x 15cm), pp.243; [3], blank. Two black and white photos as frontis plate. Publisher's red cloth blocked in grey, endpapers feature ten b & w stills from the movie, photographic dust-wrapper. Cheap paper toned..... More
5 Passengers from Lisbon.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1946. [Murder mystery novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.192. Bound in tan cloth blocked in black, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price at 8/6. Contents clean, neat ink name to front endpaper, in a secondary or cheap edition binding, jacket with reduced..... More
Enemy in the House.
London: for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Historical murder mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.216; [4], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine copy of the book in a near fine jacket with some..... More
The Crime at Honotassa.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Historical Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION WITH ORIGINAL ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Rose (32 x...... 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
Hornblower and the Crisis.
London: Michael Joseph, 1967. [Naval Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.174 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Ivan Lapper. Internally clean with a little spotting to edges. Head of spine quite heavily bumped. A bright example of the..... More
Randall and The River of Time.
London: Michael Joseph, 1951. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's black cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Biro, with printed price 10s 6d. Slight spotting and toning to text block edges, else internally clean. Light rubbing to spine head/tail, minor bumping to board..... More
U 97. A Play in Three Acts.
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head Limited, 1931. [Naval adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.99; [1], blank; [8], ads. Publisher's green cloth with printed paper title label to spine, in original printed dust-wrapper. Owner bookplate. Contents clean, covers have some dampstaining which has offset to jacket. Some chips..... More
No Dust in the Attic. [with Original Artwork].
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION with the ORIGINAL DUST-JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the deep pink dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with two separate original artworks by..... More
Ring for a Noose.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Rose, priced at 12/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Rose (31 x...... More
Night on The Devil's Pathway. [Night on the Pathway]. A Master Thriller.
London: The World's Work, 1938. [American Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's light green cloth titled in black to spine and upper. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket. Very light wear to spine ends. dustwrapper, bright, sharp and clean with very slight wear to head and tail of spine. Trifling..... More
The Rainbow and the Rose.
London: Heinemann, 1958. [Aviation Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [2]. Recent red half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Light toning and spotting to edges. A clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Romantic adventure novel set in..... More
The Sanctuary Club [and] Hilda Wade [and] A Master of Craft [and] The Seven Dragons [and] The "Southern Cross" Antarctic Expedition [and] The Croxley Master [and] Whereyouwantogoto: or, The Bouncible Ball [and] Kind Little Edmund; or, The Caves and The Cockatrice [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 18, numbers 103, 104, 105, 106, 107, and 108.
London: George Newnes, July 1899 to December 1899. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Six octavo magazines (28 x 19cm), pp.xl; 120; xli-xlviii; pp.xxxii; 121-240; xxxiii-xl; pp.xxxvi; 241-360; xxxvii-xliv; pp.xl; 361-480; xli-xlviii; pp.xlviii; 481-600; xlix-lvi; pp.lvi; 601-804; lvii-lxviii [8]. With frequent in-text illustrations. Publisher's pale blue paper covers titled in dark blue..... More
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