Crime & Thrillers
N or M?
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1941. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Thompson, not priced (an export copy). A small notation of 'First Edition' in black ink inside front cover, hidden..... More
Djibouti.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Harper Collins, 2012. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 98 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[x]; 279; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. Suspense novel..... More
Black Boomerang. The Story of his secret 'Black Radio' operation in World War 2.
London: Secker & Warburg, 1962. [Wartime memoir] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter Barrett, priced 35/-. Contents clean, cloth covers rather mottled and discoloured, jacket near fine. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy (pencilled ownership within). A...... More
'Motel Nymph' [The Spy Who Loved Me] in Stag Annual Magazine. No.1.
New York, NY: Atlas Magazines, 1964. [Men's Magazine] FIRST U.S. PERIODICAL APPEARANCE. Magazine format (28 x 21cm), pp.130. The story appears on pp.12-15, 118-129, being an abridged illustrated printing of 'The Spy Who Loved Me', published under this new title and advertised as a 'Suspense novel'. Publisher's Colour-illustrated paper covers..... More
When Eight Bells Toll.
London: Collins, 1966. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Heseltine, priced at 21s. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges toned and spotted, near fine jacket is very lightly worn. An attractive copy. Millions..... More
Modesty Blaise: The Xanadu Talisman.
London: Souvenir Press, 1981. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.288. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Mike Codd, priced at £6.95. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges slightly dusty; near fine in similar jacket which is toned to the spine. The..... More
Modesty Blaise: Dragon's Claw.
London: Souvenir Press, 1978. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.318; [2], blank. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Mike Codd, priced at £4.50. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges slightly dusty; near fine in similar jacket. The eighth Modesty Blaise..... More
Modesty Blaise: The Night of the Morningstar.
London: Souvenir Press, 1982. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.274; [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Mike Codd, priced at £6.95. Contents clean, no inscriptions, edges slightly dusty; near fine in similar jacket. The tenth Modesty Blaise spy novel..... More
The Len Deighton Companion (2 copies).
London: Grafton, 1987, 1988. [Bibliography/biography] FIRST EDITION, together with FIRST PAPERBACK. Octavos (24 x 16cm), (18 x 11cm), pp.336; 336. Publisher's hardcover in jacket and publisher's softcovers. Both books in fine condition (paperback has expected toning to paper stock, minor rubs to spine). An indispensable guide to the writings of..... More
Stopover Tokyo.
London: Collins, 1957. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.254. Publisher's blue cloth in original pictorial dust wrapper priced at 12/6. Some minor dustiness. A crisp, fine copy of this Mr. Moto mystery. Earl Derr Biggers' Chinese-American detective Charlie Chan was a popular success for the Post journal. When..... More
Our Kind of Traitor.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2010. [Spy Novel] FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.306; [6]. Publisher's hardback black cloth binding lettered in gilt, red endpapers, in pictorial dust-jacket priced at £18.99 to front flap, publisher's 'signed' label to upper. Carefully read, jacket shows..... More
City of Gold.
London: Century, 1992. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 323; [5], blank. Publisher's sand-coloured hardcover cloth blocked in black to the backstrip, cartographic endpapers, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £14.99. Lightly handled; near fine. A novel of conflict, espionage and love, set in Wartime Cairo, 1942. In the 60's..... More
SS-GB. Nazi Occupied Britain 1941.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1978. [Spy thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.350; [2], blank. Hardback in dust-wrapper designed by Raymond Hawkey, who designed the classic 1960s James Bond paperbacks for Pan Books. With accompanying booklet of promotional 1941 postage stamps, issued for the book trade; objections from the Royal..... More
Spy Hook.
London: Hutchinson, 1988. [Cold War spy novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION, limited and numbered (404/500 copies). Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[iv]; 267; [1], blank. Publisher's illustrated softcovers. Light spotting to edges, minor wrinkles to spine. Near fine. The first in a trilogy of spy novels featuring Bernard..... More
No Man's Land.
London: Hesperus Press, 2005. [Spy fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.xxvi; 118. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine, yellow endpapers, dust-jacket priced at £9.99 to front flap. A fine copy with a hint of sunning to spine. Bibliographer Jon Gilbert's copy, with his pencilled notes and..... More
Traitor's Kiss
London: Bantam Press, 2003. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.428; [4], blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket priced at £12.99. Some toning to edges of text block else fine in fine wrapper. Shortlisted for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, an annual..... More
Si vive solo due volte. [You Only Live Twice].
Milan: Garzanti, 1965. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with yellow titles to spine. The book price of 850 Lira is printed on the rear pastedown. Cheap paper browned as expected, bookseller's slips loosely inserted, a few minor marks to covers..... More
Si vive solo due volte. [You Only Live Twice].
Milan: Garzanti, 1965. [James Bond] FIRST EDITION IN ITALIAN. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.183 [1]. Publisher's brown cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the purple and yellow dust-jacket, not priced (book price of 850 Lira appears on rear pastedown). Cheap paper browned as expected, jacket with a couple of..... More
Child 44.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2008. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, additionally dated by the author on publication day. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 473 [1]. Maps to endpapers. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £12.99. A fine copy. Nominated for the Man..... More
[Smiley vs Karla trilogy]: Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy; The Honourable Schoolboy; Smiley's People.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1974, 1977, 1980 [November 1979]. [Espionage Trilogy] COMPLETE LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITIONS. Three volumes. Octavo (22 x 14 x 11cm), pp.350, pp.532, pp.328. Bound in red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards, top edges gilt, and with the original..... More
The Honorary Consul.
London: The Bodley Head, 1973. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.335 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey, priced at £2.00. A lovely crisp, fine copy. 'The Honorary Consul' returns to that third world the..... More
The Naive and Sentimental Lover.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Suspense] PROOF COPY. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.416. Publisher's grey paper covers, decorated with the publisher's logo, and showing titles, publication date and a price of £2.25 in green. Black ink ownership to reverse of front cover. Covers starting to come away from the spine..... More
The Human Factor.
London: The Bodley Head, 1978. [Espionage novel] First Edition, second state of title page with publisher's monogram in place of the Shakespeare head motif. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.339 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, top edge tinted, and the dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey, priced at..... More
The Cincinnati Kid.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1963. [Gambling Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6] 154. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and green endpapers. Top edge green. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Seymour Chwast, priced at $3.95. Very light rubbing to marginally short jacket with..... More
The Patience of Maigret. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1939. [Detective Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320; [1], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Contents clean, binding very lightly handled. A fine copy without jacket. Scarce pre-war Maigret, published in America the following year. More