Crime & Thrillers
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Trent's Own Case.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. Toronto bookseller's stamp to flyleaf. Erasure of heavy pencil inscription also to flyleaf. Gently toned throughout. Only very minor rubbing to cloth;..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper, top edge blue, in typographic dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. With author's ink inscription to flyleaf; Neil and Alice / With love from..... More
Trent Intervenes.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine. Top edge blue. Some browning to edges and endpapers, with gentle occasional spotting. Spine toned, with some rubbing and marking to cloth. Very good. A collection of..... 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
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
Payment Deferred.
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926. [Mystery novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.304; [8], ads. Elegantly hand-bound in half burgundy calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth covers preserved at rear, top edge tinted red. Contents..... 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
Randall and The River of Time.
London: Michael Joseph, 1951. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION, SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY. 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. With author's inscription to flyleaf: 'To Sir William and Lady Tennant /with best wishes from /..... 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
Right Off The Map.
London, Chatto and Windus. 1927. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, slightly faded to spine cloth with a small patch of bleaching at the top. Page edges untrimmed, internally clean. Wrapped in a splendid spine faded dustwrapper in blue and purple. Light wear and..... More
The Queen's Awards. Series 6.
London: Gollancz, 1953. [Crime fiction collection] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red clothwith black titles to spine, typographical dust-jacket with printed price 10/6 to flap. Contents clean, owner bookplate beneath flap, light spotting to edges, some minor rubs and marks to covers and jacket, which is a...... More
Agatha Christie, Mistress of Mystery.
London: Collins, 1968. [Literary criticism] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.128. With the photographic halftone frontispiece. Publisher's grey cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket priced at 21s to front flap. Internally bright, light spotting to margins and textblock edges. Some toning to jacket with offsetting to..... More
Death by Diagnosis [and] Headless Horseman [in] Street & Smith's Mystery Detective. Vol. II, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Very small chip to head of spine. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories..... More
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