Crime & Thrillers
Fly Me A Killer.
London: Robert Hale, 1962. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A lovely crisp copy, with just a touch of spotting to the top edge. Jacket lightly rubbed and toned, with a few..... More
No Country for Old Men.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. [Neo-Western] ADVANCE READER'S COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [6]. Publisher's soft covers designed by Chip Kidd, with additional flap to front cover. Very light handling. Near fine. Basis for the 2007 Coen Brothers' Oscar-winning film of the same name, set in..... More
Modesty Blaise: The Silver Mistress.
London: Souvenir Press, 1973. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254. Publisher's cyan cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £2.20. Ownership sticker to top left of front pastedown. Very lightly sunned to jacket spine. Near fine. The sixth full-length Modesty Blaise thriller, developed..... More
The Female of The Species.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1928]. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], advertisements. In publisher's light blue cloth blocked in black to spine and upper. Edges clean, no inscriptions. A lovely fine copy, lacking the scarce jacket. The fifth Bulldog Drummond thriller... More
The Rainbow and the Rose.
London: Heinemann, 1958. [Aviation Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [2]. Recent red half calf with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Light toning and spotting to edges. A clean copy in an attractive new leather binding. Romantic adventure novel set in..... More
The Dark Crusader.
London: Collins, 1961. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Pino Dell-Orco. An export copy, not priced. Toning, spotting, and some bumping to edges. Moderate spotting also to pages either side of the..... More
The Theta Syndrome.
London: New English Library, 1977. [Horror] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.205 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black marker to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Jean-Pierre Trevor, priced at £3.95. Heavy browning to low grade paper. Some..... More
The Night and The Music. The Matthew Scudder Stories.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Telemachus Press, 2011. [Crime novel] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Limited to 100 copies. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[viii]; 237; [1], blank. Publisher's gilt-stamped blue leather-cloth over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. A collection of cases..... 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 with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald Green. Toning to textblock edges, some wear to hardcover spine, jacket price clipped and toned, jacket torn on spine. Internally clean..... More
A Venetian Reckoning.
London: Macmillan, 1995. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 231 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Text block gently toned. A fine copy. The fourth in the popular Commissario Brunetti series, set in Venice. More
Sir Percy Leads the Band. The new Scarlet Pimpernel novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.316. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles in original illustrated dust-wrapper. Top edge dusty, jacket lightly worn, two small chips to crown, spine sunned. Very good indeed. Another classic entry in famous adventure series set during the French Revolution where swashbuckling rescue..... More
The Ware Case.
London: Methuen. 1913. First edition, later issue. 8vo. Publisher's bright red cloth titled in gilt to spine, minor edgewear, very good indeed. In the scarce dustwrapper, near fine save for the excision of the price label from the spine. With the incredibly rare wraparound band advertising the play of this..... More
The Saint In the Sun.
New York: For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1963. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Precedes the British hardcover. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.183; [1], blank. Publisher's black cloth hardback with red titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $3.50. Some trivial rubs to jacket; a crisp, fine copy. Seven..... More
Passenger to Frankfurt.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1970. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, printed price of £1.25p to front flap. Internally bright and clean. Some sunning to dust-jacket backstrip although red lettering has not..... More
Third Girl.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1966. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's patterned red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 18s. A very good copy in a slightly torn jacket. Shows well. When a...... More
The Billion Dollar Brain.
New York, NY: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1966. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION, the true first edition. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[2] 312 [6]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and gilt device to upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket. Bookseller's label to front pastedown. Light toning and spotting..... More
Mamista (hardback and proof).
New York: Harper Collins, 1991. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, together with ADVANCE READING COPY. Octavos (24 x 17cm), pp.410, pp.339. Publisher's green linen-backed hardcover in illustrated dust-wrapper, or publisher's illustrated softcovers. Some spotting/toning to edges else fine. Guerilla warfare story set in 1980s South America. In the 60's, Len Deighton was..... 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
Confetti for a Killing.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., 1937. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, LATER ISSUE. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.280; [8]. Publisher's secondary binding of red cloth, black titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Nina Miller Davidson. Neat ownership to flyleaf, light spotting and dustiness to edges. Jacket clipped and repriced at 4/6..... More
Biggles Takes A Hand.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1963. [Children's Adventure] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. With 12 in-text black and white illustrations by Stead. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated in colour by Stead, priced at 8/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A lovely bright, crisp..... More
Wreath For A Dead Angel.
London: Clerke and Cockeran, 1951. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.193; [1] blank. Publisher's brown cloth with black titles, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Anderson, originally priced 9/6. Internally fresh and presentable, negligible spotting to front edge. Fragile dust-wrapper shows well; clean and bright, with some inevitable..... More
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. [Book One of the Millennium Trilogy].
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008. [Swedish Crime Fiction] US ADVANCE READER'S EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 463 [8]. Publisher's plain card covers. With accompanying letter from the publisher loose to preliminaries. Letter rubbed to central fold. A crease to front cover, with slight rubbing and bumping. Near..... 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
The Golden Rendezvous.
London: Collins, 1962. [Maritime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Heseltine priced at 16s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. A fine book, in a very good jacket with a few small rubs and some..... 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