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The Big Four.
London: W. Collins and Sons. 1927. [Crime] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.v, 281; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in red to spine and upper. Some spotting to contents and edges (thick, fluffy paper is susceptible), covers fresh and bright, spine gently toned, lightly worn at tips. A very..... More
The Boomerang Clue.
New York, NY: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1935. [Murder mystery] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm) pp.[viii]; 290; [1], adverts; [5], blank. Publisher's light grey cloth blocked in red, top edge bright red, fore-edge untrimmed, 'red badge detective' design endpapers, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at $2.00. A lovely fine copy..... More
Towards Zero.
London: Published by The Crime Club by Collins, 1944. [Crime thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth in dust-wrapper designed by J.Z. Atkinson (the correct issue with the small illustration of a bell on the spine - omitted on reprints). Price clipped, a few tiny taped..... More
The House of Silk.
London: Orion Books, 2011. [Detective Fiction] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.294. One of 1000 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half title. A fine/as-new copy in jacket, in a silver-titled black cloth slipcase, in the original shrinkwrap. Anthony Horowitz's first Sherlock Holmes continuation novel, followed..... More
The Man Who...
Bristol: Scorpion Press, 1992. [Detective Short Stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] x, 230. Number 121 of just 125 copies SIGNED by all the contributors in various inks to preliminary leaves. Also with an illustrated frontispiece tipped in. Book mark for 'Murder by the Book' bookstore in..... More
The Brading Collection.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket lightly rubbed to edges with some minor closed tears, tape to reverse. Near fine. The seventeenth of 32..... More
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