Crime & Thrillers
The Late Show.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2017. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 405 [5]. Number 35 of 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
Two Kinds of Truth.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company, 2017. [Crime novel] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 402 [8]. Number 53 of 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's blue quarter cloth, with gilt titles to..... More
The Secret Agent.
London: Methuen and Co., 1907. [Landmark Spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 442; [1], imprint; [1], blank; [40], advertisement catalogue dated September 1907. Bound in publisher's burgundy coloured cloth with gilt titles to the spine. Edges of text block toned/browned, binding a little sunned to the spine..... More
Fools and Mortals.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 2017. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 369 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and patterned endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Holly Macdonald, priced at £20.00. 'Signed by the Author'..... More
Gallows Thief.
London: Harper Collins, 2001. [Historical Fiction/Crime novel] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[vi]; 281; [1], blank. With a nineteenth century coloured map of London as endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. With signature of the author in black ink to the title-page. Signature..... More
The Plague of Silence.
London: Hutchinson Library Services / John Long, 1974. [Germ Warfare Spy Thriller] VINTAGE COPY, a new edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.188. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £1.85. Light rubbing and a few marks to jacket. Near fine. A terrorist organisation..... More
The Strange Case of Eleanor Cuyler.
New York. Dodd Mead and Co. 1910. First US Edition. Publisher's ribbed brown cloth. Decorated in red and white with applied paper illustration label to top right of front board. Slight fading to spine panel otherwise bright and clean. Bookplate of notable collector Ned Guymon to front pastedown. Erased pencil..... More
A Nice Place to Die.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1965. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With a bookplate detailing provenance loose to preliminaries. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink, white and green dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Light offsetting..... More
Vixen 03.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. [Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.318; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket by Terry Hadler priced at £4.95. A near fine copy of the book, in lightly edge worn jacket, sunned to spine. The author's fourth..... More
Ranson's Folly. With 16 Illustrations by Frederic Remington, Walter Appleton Clark, Howard Chandler Christy, E.M. Ashe, and F. Dorr Steele.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. First Edition. Publisher's brick coloured cloth with gilt titles to upper with colour illustration to centre, gilt titles to spine; top edge gilt, others rough trimmed. Rubbed to extremities; internally clean and sound. Very good indeed. More
Soldiers of Fortune.
New York, Scribners. 1897. First US Edition. 8vo. Publisher's pale yellow decorated cloth titled in blue to spine and titled and decorated in blue and gilt to front board. Very good indeed with only very slight edgewear and light bumping to the spine ends. Slightly dusty top edge, internally bright..... More
Twisted Face Defends His Title.
London; Herbert Jenkins. 1940. First Edition. 8vo. Near fine in publisher's bright and sharp red cloth titled in black to spine and front board. In a bright, clean dustwrapper with some marginal wear and creascing and a closed tear with some very slight loss to the spine ends. Very good..... More
Waste lands.
London: Ward Lock and Co. 1935. Mystery novel. FIRST EDITION, later state. Octavo. In the secondary binding of green cloth, lettered in black, in original jacket repriced to 5/- and with publisher's book number overprinted to spine. The striking dust-wrapper depicts 'reaching' hands, with a leather glove motif to the..... More
The Blue Lagoon.
London, Newnes. n.d. Newnes Copyright Novels Shilling paperback edition. 8vo. Very good indeed in publisher's pictorial card wraps. Minor wear to spine ends, otherwise crisp, clean and bright. Internally clean. A scarce early paperback edition of a novel that was extraordinarily popular in its day. More
Billion Dollar Brain.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Cold War thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312. Publisher's hardback cloth in a metallic-effect pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey priced at 21s. Top edge dusty else book is fine, in a lightly handled jacket with a few inevitable nicks/marks to the thin foil..... More
Close-Up.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1972. [Modern Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.381; [1]. Publisher's cloth, black endpapers, dust-wrapper priced at £1.95. A clean, fine copy. Not a scarce book, but fine copies without fading are somewhat elusive. Uncommon. Thriller, set within the Hollywood entertainment industry. More
An Expensive Place to Die
Jonathan Cape, London, 1967. FIRST EDITION. Cold War -era spy thriller, set in Paris. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust-wrapper. Near fine, with a slight lean to book and jacket sunned to backstrip. Includes the original loose 'In Transit Docket', designed by Raymond Hawkey. HUBIN; CRIME FICTION IV. Milward-Oliver; Len..... More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. Cold War-era spy thriller, set in Paris. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.254. Publisher's cloth in original dust-wrapper, with the original loose 'In Transit Docket', designed by Raymond Hawkey. A lightly used copy in similar edgeworn jacket, slightly sun-lightened to spine panel. HUBIN; Crime Fiction IV. Milward-Oliver; Len..... More
An Expensive Place to Die.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1967. [Cold War spy thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.254;[2] blank. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket, with traces of the bold printed word 'ENGLISH' to extreme front edge of the flap and 'PROOF ONLY' in bold to rear with provisional..... More
Funeral in Berlin.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1965. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 312 [6]. Publisher's black quarter cloth with grey titles to spine, cream cloth over boards, and orange endpapers. Top edge orange; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Ben Feder. A little toned..... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File No.3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY HAWKEY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's hardcover, printed black endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 18s. Very light wear to crown of spine else a clean, fine copy which appears unread. Autographed in blue ink by..... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File No.3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold War thriller] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY in oversized PROOF-ONLY dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 18s. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's lime-green softcovers in jacket with bold 'PROOF ONLY' text to rear flap with provisional publication date printed below. Shows some expected handling, unsupported..... More
Funeral in Berlin. Secret File No.3.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1964. [Cold-war spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's hardcover, printed black endpapers, dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey,. Edges a little dusty/marked, some toning to reverse of jacket which is price clipped. Overall and attractive copy in near fine condition. Basis for the classic..... More
Horse Under Water. Secret File No. 2. A Novel by Len Deighton.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1963. [Espionage fiction] FIRST EDITION, second impression. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.255;[1] blank. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Black "office stamp" motif and blind-stamped DOWNGRADED TO UNCLASSIFIED on front board. Dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey. Some spotting to edges, binding and price clipped wrapper..... More
The Ipcress File.
Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1988. [Cold-War thriller] FRANKLIN LIBRARY EDITION. With two illustrations by Terry Widener [front cover and frontispiece]. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.279; [1], blank; [1], Colophon; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers blocked in gilt, colour plate to upper, brick wall patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Small..... More