Crime & Thrillers
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
Goldfinger.
New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co. [Book Club], no date [circa 1970]. [James Bond] US BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.x; 214. Publisher's grey paper-covered boards with blue titles to spine. With the pictorial blue dust-jacket. Whole lower edge of book tinted purple (other copies are similarly noted..... More
The House of the Whispering Pines.
London, Eveleigh Nash, 1910. 8vo. Uncommon British First Edition. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and to upper with colour illustration within a gilt frame. Slight rubbing to extremities. Edges dusty. A sound, attractive copy. Anna Katharine Green was one of the first writers of Detective Fiction..... More
Side-Effect.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1979. [Body-Snatching Thriller] FIRST EDITION, Edward Milward-Oliver's copy. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.256. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, designed by the author. Indentation from heavy pencil pricing to title page (rubbed out). Some very light handling, and..... More
A Dog's Ransom.
London: Heinemann, 1972. [Crime novel] UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY of the FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.282. Bound in yellow softcovers, printed lettering in two colours. Spine a little wrinkled else a fine copy. Kidnap thriller from the acclaimed writer of psychological mysteries. More
A Grue of Ice.
New York: Viking, 1962. [Thriller] FIRST U.S. EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp242. Publisher's grey hardcovers, top edge purple, in illustrated dust-jacket priced at £3.95. Contents clean, jacket fresh and bright. An excellent copy. Geoffrey Jenkins was a South African thriller writer of the 'Ian Fleming school', and a protege..... More
A Twist of Sand.
London: Collins, 1959. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in pictorial dust-wrapper illustrated by John Rose, with a reference to Jenkins' journalist colleague Ian Fleming on the rear flap. A fine copy of the book, which appears unread..... More
Biggles in the South Seas.
London: Oxford University Press, 1940 [circa 1942]. [Children's Adventure] EARLY REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255 [1]. With a colour frontispiece and six other black and white illustrations by Howard. Publisher's tan cloth with brown titles to spine and upper, and brown decoration matching the First to upper only. With..... More
The Mission Song.
New York, NY: Little, Brown and Company, 2006. [Espionage] US ADVANCE READING COPY. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 344 [2]. Publisher's soft covers with an image of a zebra lettered in red and white. Map of Africa p.VI. Loosely inserted is the press release Slight bumping to edges, original owner..... More
The Night Manager.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1993. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.443 [5]. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine, and red endpapers. With the red and blue dust-jacket, priced at £15.99. Light edge wear, with some spotting to top edge. Discreet ink ownership to flyleaf. Near fine..... More
The Secret Pilgrim.
London: Penguin Books, 2011. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED COPY, first thus. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[6] 423 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's soft covers, priced at £7.99. A fine, as-new copy. An espionage novel with George Smiley in a supporting role. More
Ice Station Zebra.
London: Collins, 1963. [Espionage Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.255; [1]. Dark green cloth, gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by John Heseltine, priced at 16s. Contents clean, no inscriptions. An attractive copy with some minor edge wear, some rubbing at crown and two old tape..... More
The Gwen John Sculpture. The Gwen John Sculpture, The third Tim Simpson adventure.
London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1985. [Crime adventure] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. [4] 199 [5]. Signed by author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket by Colin Thomas, priced at £7.50 to flap..... More
Right Off The Map.
London, Chatto and Windus. 1927. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's royal blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, slightly faded to spine cloth with a small patch of bleaching at the top. Page edges untrimmed, internally clean. Wrapped in a splendid spine faded dustwrapper in blue and purple. Light wear and..... More
Detective Gay; or, The King of Disguises. An Exciting Detective Story. Old Sleuth's Own No.59.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.87 [13]. Publisher's illustrated paper covers, stapled twice. Heavily browned throughout, as expected. Only very light wear to covers, including some minor chipping. A rare survival. Near fine. References in the advertisements to U-Boats..... More
A Great Boy; or, the Find of a Million. A Story with a Great Denouement. Old Sleuth Own No.71.
New York, NY: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, [circa 1920s]. DIME NOVEL. Octavo paperback (19 x 12cm), pp.87 [13]. 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
Eldorado. A Story of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1913]. [Historical fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.x; 374. Folding plate as a frontispiece. Publisher's red cloth, gilt titles to spine and upper, blind stamped 'revolutionary mob motif' and laid on illustration to same. Black ink gift inscription to front..... More
The Unexpected Guest. A Novel Adapted by Charles Osborne from the Play by Agatha Christie.
London: HarperCollinsPublishers, 1999. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[4] 177 [11]. Publisher's black cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Andrew Davidson, priced at £14.99. Gently toned throughout, with a little light handling. A fine copy. More
Kingfisher.
London: William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1977. [Espionage fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.286; [2]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the title page. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Bill Maybain, printed price of £4.50..... More
Maigret and The Minister. Translated from the French by Moura Budberg.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969. [Detective novel] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.175; [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Michael Dempsey, priced at 18s. No inscriptions, contents clean, jacket lightly edge worn with a few small rubs to spine ends. Very good..... More
Warlock.
London: Macmillan, 2001. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in publisher's black cloth, with blind bird stamp to front board and gilt titles to spine; endpapers show map of Egypt. Dust wrapper bears the eye of Horus and titles in gilt to front cover, titles to spine and publisher's advertisements to rear..... More
The Paper Chase.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1956. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. No inscriptions, contents fresh. A fine copy in a virtually fine wrapper, with a tiny amount of..... More
Girl Found Dead.
London: Macdonald, 1963. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. With a bookplate detailing provenance loose to preliminaries. Publisher's black cloth with yellow titles to spine. With the yellow dust-jacket designed by Rupert Smith, priced at 12/6. Light offsetting to endpapers, with some light..... More
The Lacquer Screen. A Chinese Detective Story.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1969. [Modern Literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. vii; [1]; 180; [4]. Ten illustrations drawn by the author, red illustrative flyleaf. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt illustration to front board, red lettering to spine, illustrative dust-jacket, priced at $3.95. Rolling to..... More
The Monkey and the Tiger. Two Chinese Detective Stories.
New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1965. [Modern Literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp. [xii]; 143; [5]. Eight illustrations drawn by the author, illustrative flyleaf. Publisher's orange cloth with embedded illustrations to front-board and grey lettering to spine, illustrative dust-jacket, priced at $3.50. Discolouration of white to..... More