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4.50 From Paddington.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1957. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[4] 256 [6]. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt..... More
![Nemesis. [A Miss Jane Marple Story]. Agatha CHRISTIE, Dame](/pictures/thumb/60610.jpg?v=1632154205)
Nemesis. [A Miss Jane Marple Story].
London: The Crime Club [Collins], 1971. [Murder mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth in grey typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £1.50. Discreet ink name and date else a clean, fine copy in a superior example of the jacket which shows wear too readily. This..... More
Passenger to Frankfurt.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1970. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.256. Elegantly bound in half red oasis morocco over cloth sides, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt. Contents clean, exterior as new. A fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. A...... More
They Do it With Mirrors.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of..... More
Third Girl.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1966. [Crime fiction] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.256. Finely bound by the Baker Bindery, Anniston, Alabama in green full morocco, with gilt titles and decoration to spine, green patterned paste-paper endpapers, generous turn-ins ruled in gilt, with gilt motifs of..... More
The Great Train Robbery.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1975. [Locomotive thievery] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.255, [1]. Publisher's mid brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Leigh Taylor. Signed by the author to the title page. Internally fine. Bright dust-wrapper, not faded or clipped, with just some light..... More
Our Man in Havana.
London: William Heinemann, 1958. [Spy Satire] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 273; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald Green. No inscriptions, jacket price clipped, toned to edges and extremities. An attractive copy. Greene's classic comic thriller, memorably brought to the..... More
The Night Manager.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1993. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Presentation copy. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.443; [5]. Publisher's dark blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, red endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket priced at £15.99. Signed, with a brief four-line inscription by the author to the title page, dated within a month of..... More
![The Thursday Murder Club [and] The Man Who Died Twice. Richard OSMAN, born 1970](/pictures/thumb/61592.jpg?v=1647105425)
The Thursday Murder Club [and] The Man Who Died Twice.
London: Viking, 2020 and 2021. [Crime Mysteries] FIRST EDITIONS, second volume SIGNED. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 380 [11]; pp.[12] 444 [10]. Second volume SIGNED by the author in black ink to a Waterstones 'Exclusive Signed Edition' leaf to preliminaries, dated September 2021. Publisher's black cloth with silver..... More
Maigret's First Case.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Elegantly bound in red half calf over marbled sides, spine ruled in six compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt. A few light spots else clean within, exterior unmarked. A near fine copy in..... More
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