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Crime & Thrillers
Castle Gay.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. [Adventure Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Very lightly browned throughout, with some light spotting and offsetting to endpapers. Minor chipping, bruising and closed tears to edges, with..... More
Four-Ply Yarn.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1944. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Internally fine. Cloth clean and bright, spine ends a little pushed. Price clipped dust-jacket shows very well, slightly bruised to top and tail of..... More
The Pattern.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1937. [Crime Mystery] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[12] 290 [2]. INSCRIBED by the author 'with thanks' in black ink to fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Top edge red; fore-edge untrimmed. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at..... More
The Amaranth Club.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [1930s]. [Mystery] First Ward Lock Edition. PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's grey-green cloth, titles in black to spine and upper, dust-jacket by Abbey, with printed price of 3/6s net. Publisher's file copy signified by paper label to the upper..... More
Payment Deferred
John Lane, The Bodley Head, London, 1926. Mystery novel. First Edition. 8vo.; pp.304 + 8 (adverts). Original red cloth, lettered to spine and upper cover in gilt. Occasional light spotting, joints a little rubbed, minor sunning to back-strip. An attractive example. A Hubin- listed crime title, and a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone..... More
The Pink Shop.
London: F.V. White and Co., 1911. INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION WITH SIGNED LETTER. Octavo, pp.312. Bound in publisher's blue cloth, gilt titles to upper, gilt titles and publisher's imprint to spine; lower edge uncut. Inscribed by the author "With all good wishes / Fergus Hume / Thundersley Essex, 11th Sept 1911"..... More
Snowline.
London: Collins, 1973. [Narcotics Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.253 [3]. With a sketch-map to preliminaries. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf: 'With every good | wish to | Miss Eileen Cond. | Berkely Mather.' Publisher's burgundy cloth..... More
Tiny Carteret.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1930]. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.320. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper board. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Spurrier, priced at 7/6 to spine. Light offsetting to endpapers; text lightly browned. Spine lightly sunned. Rather worn jacket..... More
Trent Intervenes.
London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1938. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.280. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine. Top edge blue. Some browning to edges and endpapers, with gentle occasional spotting. Spine toned, with some rubbing and marking to cloth. Very good. A collection of..... More
The High Window.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp,236. Hand-bound in deep red burgundy calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with raised bands. One or two minor marks within, exterior as new. A near fine copy, in an attractive recent leather..... More
In Queer Street.
London: F.V. White and Co., 1913. Inscribed First Edition. Octavo, pp.312. Bound in publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to upper, gilt titles and publisher's imprint to spine, bottom edge uncut. Quite clean inside, inscribed by the author "To Mrs Graham / with kind regards / Fergus Hume / Thundersley..... More
The Scarlett Murder.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1931. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.311; [1], blank; [8], advertisements. Publisher's red cloth, titled and trimmed in black, striking illustrated dust-wrapper by Frank Marston, priced at 7s. 6d to spine. Some toning to edges, jacket with a few chips and tears, gently sunned..... More
The Informer.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1925. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.272. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Textblock toned. A bookplate carefully removed from the front pastedown. Spine heavily toned, with rubbing to head and tail. Very good. A man-hunt novel set just after the Irish..... More
With Blood and Iron.
London: Jarrolds, 1964. [Naval Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. SIGNED by the author in black ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's blue cloth with white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by John Smith. Miss Cond's usual exemplary condition, with a...... More
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Punchard's Agency [and] Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest [and] The British Campaign in France [and] Uneasy Money [and] The Man-Trap [in] The Strand Magazine. Volume 53, numbers 315, 316 and 317
London: George Newnes, March to May 1917. [Literary Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCES. Three magazines. Octavo (27 x 19cm), pp.50; 209-312; 51-58; pp.50; 313-416; 51-58; pp.40; 417-512; 41-48. Liberally illustrated in black and white throughout. Publisher's blue paper covers, titled in red and navy, and priced at 7d. Presented in a navy..... More
Landslide.
London: Collins, 1967. [Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.287 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Michael Atkinson, priced at 21s. Miss Cond's usual exemplary..... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to..... More
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Romances from a Detective's Casebook [in] The Strand Magazine. 'The Jewelled Skull'; 'The Story of the Great Cat's-Eye'; 'The Secrets of the Black Brotherhood'; and 'The Chamber of Shadows'
London: George Newnes, July 1892 - November 1892. [Literary Magazine]. FIRST APPEARANCES. Four magazines in their original paper covers. Large Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.xvi; 112; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 113-220; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 221-328; xvii-xx; pp.xvi; 441-548 ; xvii-xxiv. Not including the October issue, which did not contain a Detective's Casebook story..... More
One Across, Two Down.
London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Psychological Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.191 [1]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine and grey endpapers. With the photographic dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at £1.50. Offsetting to endpapers, and..... More
The Patience of Maigret. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
London: George Routledge and Sons, 1939. [Detective Mystery] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320; [1], blank. Publisher's mid-green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Contents clean, binding very lightly handled. A fine copy without jacket. Scarce pre-war Maigret, published in America the following year. More
Carlito's Way.
New York: E. P. Dutton and Co / Saturday Review Press, 1975. [Underworld crime novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.152; [2], blank. Publisher's yellow cloth over ochre boards lettered to spine in blue, illustrated dust-jacket. Minor ink rub to fore-edge and faint old label mark to flyleaf else..... More
The Flight of the Phoenix.
London: Heinemann, 1964. [Plane Crash Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6] 241 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to distinctive bookplate on flyleaf: 'A Eileen | avec ma sentiments | bien chaleureux – | Elleston Trevor | Cote d'Azur, | ete 1964.' Also SIGNED in..... More
The Spy in Black.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1917. First Edition. Publisher's red cloth with titles in gilt to spine and upper. Faded spine, dusty edges, extremities lightly rubbed. A sound and tight copy of this scarce title. A Great War espionage tale from the author of 'Carrington's Cases', etc. More
The Adventures of Judith Lee.
London, Methuen. 1916. First edition. 8vo. 314pp + 32pp ads. Publisher's light blue cloth titled in black to spine. Near fine copy with minor edgewear and bumping to spine ends. Internally clean, light offsetting to endpapers, very minor spotting to page edges.A remarkably handsome copy of a scarce collection of..... More
The Spoilers.
London: Collins, 1969. [Narcotics Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.317 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's purple cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Norman Weaver, priced at 25s. Miss Cond's usual..... More