Crime & Thrillers
On the Wing; or, Detective Bird's Great Capture. A Tale of Mystery, Romance and Pluck. Old Sleuth's Own No.84.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.88 [12]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers, with a little chipping to head and tail of spine. A rare survival. Near fine..... More
A Plucky Girl; or, A Farmer's Daughter in New York. A Genuine Romance and Thrilling Narrative. Old Sleuth's Own No.75.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.92 [8]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers, with loss to back cover lower corner, and a few small tears to spine. A...... More
Preston Jayne in Search of His Dad; or, Further Adventures of the Little Cowboy in New York. Old Sleuth's Own No. 28.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.113 [17]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats, and to books being..... More
A Remarkable "Shadow;" or, Detective Payne's Tragic Quest. Old Sleuth's Own No.93.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.84 [16]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers, with some creases. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats, and..... More
"Straight to the Mark;" or, A Detective's Phenomenal Trick. An Unsurpassed Detective Narrative. Old Sleuth's Own No.81.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.89 [11]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats, and to books being..... More
Three Little Tramps; or, Footing It to the West. A Tale of All Sorts of Adventures. Old Sleuth's Own No.17.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.117 [11]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats, and to books being..... More
Zantilli; or, Creco's Wonderful Pursuit. A Romantic Detective Story. Old Sleuth's Own No.80.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.89 [11]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats, and to books being..... More
The Otto Penzler Collection of Bibliomysteries. A Catalogue of First Editions of Mystery Fiction Set in the World of Books, 1849-2000.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, 2017. [Bookseller's Catalogue] SIGNED COPY. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4] 147 [1]. With occasional in-text colour images. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. Publisher's colour-illustrated soft covers, priced at $10.00. A fine, as-new copy. A prime sale catalogue of book-related..... More
The Grass Widow's Tale.
London: The Crime Club, Collins, 1968. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket designed by Brian Russell with printed price of 18s to front flap. Minimal splitting to hinges, light toning to edges of textblock, bumping to base..... More
Child 44.
London: Simon and Schuster, 2008. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 473 [1]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. 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..... 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
The Silent Speaker.
The Crime Club, Collins, 1947. [Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Publisher's orange cloth, light wear, slightly sunned, very good indeed. In dustwrapper, price-clipped, lightly creased, small tears, spine sunned, a few small chips, overall very good. A Nero Wolfe novel. Another case for the eccentric oversized New York armchair detective Nero..... More
Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror. Second Series.
London: Victor Gollancz ltd., 1931. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.1147; [5]. Publisher's black cloth over boards, red titles to spine. Leaves lightly toned, spotting to a couple. Minor splashing to top margin starting around page 410. Ownership inscription in pencil to flyleaf. Top edge toned. Binding..... More
Jesse James' Narrow Escape Or; Ensnared by a Woman Detective.
Cleveland; The Arthur Westbrook Company. 1909. "Adventure Series" edition. 8vo. Publisher's illustrated paper wraps, light wear to extremties, strong, bright and unfaded. Internally clean although uniformly toned due to poor paper quality. A charming survival of a pulp western crime adventure. More
The Brading Collection.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1952. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket. Light offsetting to endpapers. Price-clipped jacket lightly rubbed to edges with some minor closed tears, tape to reverse. Near fine. The seventeenth of 32..... More
An Expensive Place to Die
Jonathan Cape, London, 1967. FIRST EDITION. Cold War -era spy thriller, set in Paris. 8vo. Publisher's cloth in original dust-wrapper. Near fine, with a slight lean to book and jacket sunned to backstrip. Includes the original loose 'In Transit Docket', designed by Raymond Hawkey. HUBIN; CRIME FICTION IV. Milward-Oliver; Len..... More
Murder Off Broadway.
London, John Hamilton Ltd. c 1930. 8vo. Publisher's bright orange cloth, lettered in black, in pictorial dust jacket. Minor bumping to extremities with slight fading to spine, trivial spotting to page edges, dust to top edge, very good. Attractive, rather fragile dust jacket with some chips and small losses, including..... More
Tiger Mark.
London: John Hamilton, n.d [c.1928]. Octavo. pp. [7], 224. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Pictorial dust wrapper shows a corpse lying at the foot of a man seated on a throne, and titles in black and red to front cover, attributed to Bert Wardle, titles..... More
Thanks to the Saint. A collection of six more Saintly adventures.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's dark red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 12/6. Contents clean, edges dusty/spotted, jacket rather bright and fresh. An attractive copy. Short story collection, including 'The Bunco Artists'..... More
Sinister Errand.
London: Collins, 1945. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. A very clean copy of the book in a slightly edge-worn wrapper. Near fine. A fast-paced suspense novel. More
Spider's Web.
London: Harper Collins, 2000. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp. [6]; 241; [9], publisher's advertisements. Publisher's black cloth lettered in white to spine, illustrative dust-jacket. Small spider illustration at the start of chapters. Toning to edges of textblock, small markings from a green gel pen throughout the..... More
Five Miss Marple Novels. The Mirror Crack'd; Caribbean Mystery; Nemesis; What Mrs. McGillicuddy Saw!; The Body in the Library.
New York, NY: Chatham River Press, 1984. [Crime Omnibus] DELUXE EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 650 [6]. Publisher's green full leatherette, with gilt titles, as well as elaborate red and gilt decoration, to spine and upper. All edges gilt, with facsimile marbling to endpapers. Quite heavily browned throughout to..... 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, a few brown spots to fore-edge, jacket spine lettering faded..... More
The Lincoln Lawyer.
London: Orion, 2005. [Legal Thriller] SIGNED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 404 [2]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page, with his FULL SIGNATURE, rather than the more familiar initials/hurried autograph. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the..... More
A Nice Place to Die.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1965. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With a bookplate detailing provenance loose to preliminaries. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the pink, white and green dust-jacket, priced at 15s. Light offsetting..... More