Crime & Thrillers
The Fox.
London: Bantam Press, 2018. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 307 [7]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and red endpapers. With the pictorial dust-jacket, priced at £20.00. Edges very slightly toned. A fine..... More
The Negotiator.
London: Bantam Press, 1989. [Spy Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.448. With an unusually effusive INSCRIPTION by the author in black ink to half-title: 'For | David and Ruth | Warmest best wishes, | love as ever' dated 04/05/89. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine..... More
Who Murdered Reynard?
London: Rich & Cowan, no date [1947]. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168. Publisher's blue paper-covered boards with navy titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Kingsley Sutton, priced at 9/6. Heavy spotting to edges, and first and last leaves. Toning to spine and board edges..... More
The Danger.
London: Michael Joseph, 1983. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.272. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates. Top edge dust-marked else a fine copy in jacket. More
The Edge.
London: Michael Joseph, 1988. [Equestrian Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.283 [5]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to half-title. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates, priced at £11.95. Edges a little toned and spotted. Light handling..... More
Field of 13.
London: Michael Joseph, 1998. [Thriller / Suspense] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.253; [5], blank. With the publisher's bookplate signed by the author in blue ink. Bound in brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, illustrated endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Photonica, priced at £16.99. Edges of low-grade paper stock..... More
In the Frame.
London: Michael Joseph, 1976. [Horse racing thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.252; [4]. Publisher's black cloth hardcovers with gilt titles, illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Chris Yates, priced at £3.25. Lightly handled, top edge dusty/spotted. A near fine copy. A genre classic from renowned crime writer, Dick Francis... More
Longshot.
London: Michael Joseph, 1990. [Equestrian Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 277 [5]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to half-title. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by John Slater, priced at £13.99. Edges a little toned and spotted. Light..... More
Odds Against.
London: Michael Joseph, 1965. [Crime thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's brown cloth hardcovers with illustrated dust-wrapper designed by Broome Lynn, in the style of James Bond jacket artist Richard Chopping. Contents clean, some dustiness to page edges, price clipped jacket with a few marks to flaps;..... More
Risk.
London: Michael Joseph, 1977. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.252; [4], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates, priced at £3.95. A clean copy with a few minor marks. Near fine. Racing thriller set around the Cheltenham Gold Cup... More
Trial Run.
London: Michael Joseph, 1978. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.238; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, cartographic endpapers, dust-jacket designed by Chris Yates, priced at £4.50. A little soiling to edges, marginal rub/chip to fore-edge of last few sections, jacket is fine. A...... More
Twice Shy.
London: Michael Joseph, 1981. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.249; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with racing photograph by Adrian Murrell. Top edge dusty else a fine copy in jacket. More
Whip Hand.
London: Michael Joseph, 1979. [Thriller / Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.247; [5], blank. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket with still from Yorkshire Television crime drama The Racing Game. Top edge a little dusty else a fine copy in jacket. More
The Stoneware Monkey.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, blue endpapers, pictorial dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. Contents very clean, neat ownership to flyleaf, jacket with trivial rubbing and wear, some discreet (frankly unnecessary) touch-up (no paper repair); a lovely..... More
The Caribbean Account.
New York, NY: Delacorte press, 1981. [Thriller]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10]; 342. Publisher's black quarter cloth over black paper covered boards, metallic red titles to spine, photographic dust-jacket designed by Irving Freeman, edges specked red. Binding very lightly rubbed to extremities, dust-jacket shows well, crease to rear..... More
The Chase of The Golden Plate.
London: Collier and Co., 1908. First edition. Octavo, pp.224. Near fine in publisher's ribbed bottle green clothtitled in gilt to the spine and front board. Decorated in blind to front board with two pictorial inlays. Light bumping to head and tail of spine otherwise fine. Internally clean A splendid copy..... More
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La Corde au Cou. [The Rope Around His Neck].
Paris: E. Dentu, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Lettres, 1873. [Literature] EARLY EDITION, possibly the seventh. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.vi; 489; [1]. All text in French. Later tan half calf with gilt titles to spine., marbled boards. Internally clean, slight chip[ping to flyleaf, binding lightly rubbed to..... More
Complete Cormoran Strike Novels: The Cuckoo's Calling, The Silkworm, Career of Evil and Lethal White.
London: Sphere, 2013; 2014; 2015; 2018. [Crime Fiction] COMPLETE FIRST EDITIONS. Four volumes. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.449 [7]; pp.[8] 456; pp.[8] 494 [10]; pp.[6] 650. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spines, and variously coloured endpapers. Each volume with the photographic dust-jacket, variously priced at £16.99 and £20.00..... More
The Dancing Dodo.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. [Aviation thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.350; [2], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Small and discreet ownership, jacket clipped otherwise a fine fresh copy. An aviation thriller from the James Bond continuation author. More
Founder Member
London: Frederick Muller 1969. FIRST EDITION, 8vo, Publisher's dark blue cloth, slight lean to spine, lovely fresh pages, fine. Photographic dustwrapper with a little wear to extremities and a few tiny scratches to the spine, near fine. A Boysie Oakes spy thriller written before Gardner's stint as the official James..... More