"Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon. "
— Bertolt Brecht
Crime & Thrillers
The Dancing Dodo.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1978. [Aviation thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.350; [2], blank. Publisher's cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper. Small and discreet ownership, jacket clipped otherwise a fine fresh copy. An aviation thriller from the James Bond continuation author. More
Delta Connection.
London: Macmillan, 1996. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[10] 437 [1]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, and black endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chris Moore, not priced. Spotting to top edge. Light wear to extremities. Jacket spine sunned. Very good. An adventure novel..... More
Target Antarctica.
London: Chapmans, 1993. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[8] 305 [7]. With a map to preliminaries. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Gary Keane, not priced. Light handling. Near fine. A classic Innes adventure, somehow linking the Khmer Rouge with..... More
A Perfect Spy.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. [Espionage novel] SECOND IMPRESSION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.463. Publisher's blue quarter cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, with blue cloth over boards and red endpapers. With the typographic dust-jacket designed by Howard J. Shaw, priced at £9.95. Identical to the first, except for..... More
Racket Busters Incorporated.
London: Gerald G. Swan, 1946. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy on low-grade economy paper. Just..... More
Live By Night.
New York, NY: William Morrow, 2012. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[12] 401 [3]. Publisher's orange quarter cloth with green titles to spine and grey paper over boards. Orange endpapers, and fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Mary Schuck, priced at $27.99. Some light handling. Near..... More
Goodbye California.
London: Collins, 1977. [Action thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.318; [4]. Publisher's brown cloth with silver titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket photographed by Roy Botterell. Near fine in similar price-clipped jacket, with usual sunning to spine, and a little rubbing to edges. A race-against-time novel with elements of..... More
Night Without End.
London: Collins, 1960. [Polar adventure thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket priced at 15s. A large blue ink child's doodle to fly-leaf. Toning to edges. Some handling to cloth; gilt somewhat dulled. Jacket a little toned..... More
Three Spies for Glory.
London: Jarrolds Publishers, no date [1950]. [Wartime Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.238 [2]. Publisher's blue cloth with orange titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 9/6. An exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a little wear to jacket edges and spine. Near fine. Best-known..... More
Painted Ghost.
London: Gerald G. Swan, 1946. [Western] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.175 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in gilt to spine and blind to upper. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 5s. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, and toned to low-grade economy paper with..... More
Road Rage. An Inspector Wexford Mystery.
London: Hutchinson, 1997. [Crime fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[viii]; 328. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, green endpapers, photographic dust-jacket priced at £16.99. Signed by the author in blue ink to the title page. A clean, fine copy. More
Mayhem in Greece.
London: Hutchinson, 1962. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.510; [2]. Publisher's dark green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Robert Graham, priced at 21s. Some toning and marking to edges. Jacket with some chips and closed tears to edges; some loss to..... More
Traitors' Gate.
London: Hutchinson, 1958. [War-Time Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.383 [1]. Maps and plans to endpapers. Publisher's illustrated purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the matching dust-jacket illustrated by Sax, priced at 16s. Very light spotting to top edge; the lightest of bruising to jacket edges..... More
Proceed to Judgement.
London: Macmillan, 1979. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £4.95. Some light spotting to edges and minor rub marks to jacket back cover. Near fine. The 28th Antony Maitland legal mystery... More
They Stay for Death.
London: Macmillan, 1980. [Legal Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £4.95. The lightest of spotting to edges. Near fine. The 30th Antony Maitland legal mystery. More
Dead Man's Bay.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Count On The Saint; 'The Unsaintly Santa'.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. [Crime caper] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.175; [1], advert. Publisher's burgundy cloth in original dust-wrapper designed by Melvyn Gill. Some bumping, jacket nicked at spine, some edgewear, not faded. A very good copy. Short episodes with the gentleman adventurer. Includes the seasonal mystery..... More
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Mad Morgan's Murder Sanctum [and] Danger! Dead Men! Detour! [in] Detective Story Magazine. Vol. IX, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., May 1954. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. 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 appealing by its..... More
The Plague of Silence.
London: Hutchinson Library Services / John Long, 1974. [Germ Warfare Spy Thriller] VINTAGE COPY, a new edition. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.188. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket priced at £1.85. Light rubbing and a few marks to jacket. Near fine. A terrorist organisation..... More
Violent Ward.
London: Harper Collins, 1993. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 15cm), pp.[x]; 305; [5], blank. Publisher's red hardcover cloth blocked in gilt to the backstrip, illustrated dust-jacket priced at £14.99. A crisp, clean, fine copy. A picaresque legal thriller set in riot-torn South Central Los Angeles. More
The Spy Who Loved Me.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1962. [James Bond] US BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.211 [13]. Publisher's black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and red leatherette strips to fore-edges. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket in orange. A nice clean copy with just a...... More
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A Tombstone for Taro [and] Terror Holds the Gun [in] Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. Vol. VII, No. 3.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., February 1950. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. One faint mark to front cover, and a small chip to head of spine. Almost..... More
The Strode Venturer.
London: Collins, 1965. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's light blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Farnhill, priced at 21s. A little dusty to edges. Some shrinkage to jacket around the joints, tape burn to flaps; very lightly sunned to spine..... More
The Tailor of Panama.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996. [Spy Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.410. Publisher's grey quarter cloth with gilt titles to spine and purple paper-covered boards. Illustrated endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £16.99. Gently toned to edges, with some minor water staining to spine, boards and jacket..... More
Double Exposure.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1963. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the black and yellow dust-jacket, priced at 12/6. Blue ink ownership to flyleaf. Some light offsetting to endpapers and browning to edges. Jacket..... More