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— C. S. Lewis
Crime & Thrillers
A Rough Shoot.
Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. [Spy Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[4] 156. Publisher's grey cloth with red titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Lew Keller, priced at $2.50. Spotting to top edge. Jacket lightly bruised and chipped to edges, with some closed..... More
Air Bridge
London: Collins. 1951. Post-War air adventure. FIRST EDITION, Octavo. 288pp. Publisher's red cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Page edges tanned/spotted, jacket with a few chips and tears. Very good. More
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The Mary Deare [aka The Wreck of the Mary Deare].
London: Collins, 1956. [Naval thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.156. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine and maps to endpapers. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Light toning and spotting to edges, with some light wear to extremities. Jacket rubbed and chipped to edges, with..... More
The Secretary.
London: Transworld, 2019. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[294]. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards in pictorial dust-jacket, designed by Stephen Mulcahey. Signed by the author to the title-page. Small blob of binders glue to front edge, neatly opened. Signed sticker to the dust-wrapper. Near Fine. After eighteen years..... More
A Most Wanted Man.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2008. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17 cm). Publisher's hardback in pictorial dust-wrapper priced at £18.99. A fine copy in like jacket. Basis for the acclaimed 2014 movie starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Rachel McAdams. More
Number 70, Berlin: A Story of Britain's Peril.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. First Edition. Octavo. pp. viii, 248. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and black/green titles to upper board. Erased pencil inscription to front pastedown, dated 1916. Some soiling to lower board, otherwise very good indeed. '[Le Queux] wrote scores of espionage novels and..... More
Gone, Baby, Gone.
New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1998. [Crime Mystery] SIGNED COPY, Second Printing. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[10] 374. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's red quarter paper over spine, with white titles and black paper over boards. With the dust-jacket designed by Bradford..... More
Mystic River.
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2001. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[12] 401 [3]. Publisher's dark grey paper over boards with bronze titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Chip Kidd, not priced. Text block toned. A fine copy. Basis for the neo-noir mystery drama film..... More
Uniform Justice.
London: William Heinemann, 2003. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 272 [8]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £15.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine copy. The twelfth..... More
A Regimental Affair.
London: Bantam Press, 2001. [Historical Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[x]; 326. Publisher's red cloth hardcovers, illustrated cartographic endpapers, pictorial dustwrapper priced at £16.99. Autograph of Allan Mallinson in black ink to title page. Signature obtained in person upon release. An fine/unread copy, warehoused by ourselves since..... More
The Buck Passes Flynn.
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1981. [Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13 cm), pp.216; [4]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Typographic dust-wrapper with printed price £6.95. Tiny nick to upper joint else fine. A Gollancz Thriller, concerning Fletch's friend, a special agent who masquerades as a...... More
Even Dogs in the Wild.
London: Orion Books, 2015. [Crime Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 345 [17]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £19.99. Promotional stickers to front cover. A...... More
Fleshmarket Close.
London: Orion Books, 2004. SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.399. Number 522 of 2000 copies SIGNED by the author to a tipped-in limitation page in blue ink. In publisher's black cloth with metallic green titles to spine. With original pictorial dust jacket. Housed in glossy card slip-case. Lightly handled, small..... More
Maigret And The Headless Corpse.
New York, NY: A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book; Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[6] 183 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Top edge yellow. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Ken Braren. Price-clipped jacket sunned to spine..... More
The Others.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975. [Psychological drama] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.124. Publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket designed by Beverley LeBarrow, with printed price of £2.50 net. A little sunned else a fine copy which appears to be unread. Haining; The Classic Era of Crime..... More
Dragon Harvest.
Monrovia, CA: Published by the Author, printed by the American Book-Stratford Press, 1945. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.viii; 703 [7]. Printed on thin paper. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Top edge red. With the black and red typographic dust-jacket, not priced..... More
Child 44.
New York, NY and Boston, MA: Grand Central Publishing, 2008. [Crime Fiction] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 439 [1], blank. Publisher's hardcover with cartographic endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at $24.99. Sight toning; near fine (jacket is meant to appear distressed or worn). Soviet-era detective thriller, nominated for..... More
Hatchet Man.
London: T.V. Boardman and Company Ltd., 1964. [Modern fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[vi]; 174; [I], blank. Publisher's orange cloth in pictorial dust-jacket, title in black on spine, dust-jacket designed by Denis McLoughlin with printed price of 12s. 6d net. Internally clean, minor wrinkling to spine ends..... More
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Sphinx [LOBBY CARDS].
Burbank, CA: Warner Brothers, 1981. [Movie Memorabilia] ORIGINAL LOBBY CARDS. A set of eight lobby cards from the film 'Sphinx' directed by Franklin J. Schaffer, and starring Lesley-Anne Down. Colour lithographic images on heavy stock measuring 28 x 36cm, with production credits to left and lower quadrants. Some light handling..... More
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Death by Diagnosis [and] Headless Horseman [in] Street & Smith's Mystery Detective. Vol. II, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Very small chip to head of spine. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories..... More
Divided We Fall.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Trade Union Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13m), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the black and green typographic dust-jacket, not priced. Light toning to edges, with a bump to upper top right corner. Jacket..... More
The Midnight Line.
London: Bantam Press, 2017. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 391 [3]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's white cloth with black titles to spine. Blue endpapers and all edges blue. With the dust-jacket designed by Stephen Mulcahey, priced at £20. 'Signed..... More
The Drop.
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2011. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 388 [6]. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Allison J. Warner, priced at $27.99. A fine copy. Detective Harry Bosch feels compelled to take on more..... 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
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The Wrong Corpse [and] Let's Have Some Murder [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. V, No. 2.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1949. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only..... More