Crime & Thrillers
Hickory Dickory Dock [A Hercule Poirot Mystery].
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1955. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with titles and imprint in black to spine. Dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 10/6. Contents clean, edges foxed, discreet ink ownership hidden under flap, jacket toned/spotted to rear panel..... 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
No Questions Asked.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1950. [Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.222 [2]. Publisher's burgundy cloth with white titles to spine and upper. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jahnis. Offsetting to endpapers, and some toning and spotting to edges. Price-clipped jacket shows only very light handling, and..... More
The Shoot.
London: Heinemann, 1966. [Missile Test Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 236. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Edward Tan, priced at 18s. Minor light handling. A lovely fine copy..... More
The Long Arm, and other Detective tales.
London, Chapman and Hall. 1895. First Edition. Publisher's dark blue cloth lettered in gilt and delicately decorated with a floral design in light blue and grey. A most attractive book with slight wear to the extremties and bumping to the spine ends. A scarce collection of crime stories (mentioned in..... More
The Ability to Kill: True Tales of Bloody Murder.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Press, 1987. [True Crime] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 214 [2]. Letter I of 26 lettered copies, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's deep red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the matching cloth-covered slipcase..... More
Trent's Own Case.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries..... More
Saints Alive.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1974. [Crime Fiction] FIRST HARDBACK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.416. Orange cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Edges slightly toned/dusty else near fine, in similar price-clipped jacket, with some light rubs/edgewear, one crease to front flap and one small tear..... More
Vendetta for the Saint. The new full length Saint novel.
New York: For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1964. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, with Doubleday slip loosely inserted (likely an advance copy). Precedes the British hardcover. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208; [4], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $3.95. The rear..... More
The Mirror Crack'd From Side To Side.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1962. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 15s. Contents and page edges clean, no inscriptions, jacket lightly worn, toned to spine with a few small..... More
The Pale Horse.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1961. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the distinctive dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Contents clean, edges a little toned, no inscriptions, bright jacket lightly worn with some gentle spotting to..... More
Towards Zero.
London: Collins, 1944. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION, Crime Club Edition. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in black to spine. No ink inscriptions, contents clean, some general wear to covers, spine a little sunned and marked; very good. 'Towards Zero' marks the fifth and final appearance of..... More
The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 190 [2]. With twelve engravings by Fildes and a frontispiece portrait of Dickens. Contemporary green half morocco, with gilt titles and ruling to spine, and marbled paper over boards. All edges speckled red. All plates present..... 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
The Windblow Mystery.
London: John Hamilton, 1926. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.247; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth, black titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to spine. Interior bright; foxing to preliminaries, rear few leaves, and edges. Bumping to spine ends. Some minor marking to..... More
Sky High.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1955. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13xm), pp.222; [2]. Publisher's maroon cloth lettered in black to spine, pictorial dust-jacket with printed price of 10s 6d to front and back flaps. Toning to edges of text-block, archival tape to flaps and spine (six pieces applied..... More
The Mandarin Cypher.
London: Collins, 1975. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.256. SIGNED by the author ink black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket, designed by Craig Dodd, price-clipped and re-priced at £2.95 by the publisher. Light wear to cloth..... More
Captain Shannon.
London: Ward, Lock, and Co., 1897. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.vi; [2]; 258; [6]. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine with red embossed: 'By order, Captain Shannon' to upper board. Untrimmed edges. With sixteen halftone plates by Wilson, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece. Plate opposite p.184..... More
The Mission Song.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2006. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, limited issue, one of 500 copies. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[6] 339 [6]. With a map of Africa at rear. Publisher's hardback in pictorial cloth slipcase. A fine, as-new copy, still in the shrink-wrap. A naive young interpreter stumbles into..... More
Agent Running in the Field.
London: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019. [Spy Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 281 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink directly to the title page. Publisher's black cloth with bronze titles to spine and navy endpapers. With the red dust-jacket priced..... More
The Last Frontier.
London: Collins, 1959. [Adventure novel] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] 319 [3]. Recently re-bound in deep red half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. A crisp, clean copy, with edges gently trimmed, presented in an attractive new leather binding. An..... More
The Last Frontier.
London: Collins, 1959. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15), pp. 319; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 15s to front flap. No inscriptions, some gentle toning to edges of text block, few light spots to fly, jacket with very..... More
South by Java Head.
London: Collins, 1958. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15), pp. 320. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 15s to front flap. No inscriptions, toning to edges of text block, jacket with very light edge wear. A fine copy. A war-time..... More
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, and Other Stories.
London: Fourth Estate, 2014. [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10]; 242; [4]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of £14.99 to front flap. As new. One of only four..... More
A Place for the Wicked.
London: Heinemann, 1968. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[6] 280 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Jean-Pierre Trevor. Light toning to edges. Price-clipped jacket a little toned to..... More