Crime & Thrillers
Greenmantle.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916. [Spy Novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.x; 307 [1]. Publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt to spine and blind to upper board. Pencil ownership to flyleaf; light offsetting. Hinges split; rear hinge especially fragile. Rubbing to cloth, with gilt largely lost from..... More
The Hard Way. A Jack Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2015. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] x; 371 [3]. Number 79 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More
A Note of Enchantment.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1961. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 250 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate to fly-leaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Leslie Wood. Miss Cond's usual..... More
The Third man. The Story for the Motion Picture.
New York, NY: The Viking Press, 1950. [Thriller] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.157 [3]. Publisher's red quarter cloth cloth with black titles to spine and dark grey cloth over boards. Top edge navy. With the red dust-jacket, priced at $2.00. Blue ink ownership to fly-leaf. Heavy browning..... More
The Woman in the Case.
London: Greening and Co., 1909. [Edwardian murder mystery]. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.281; [1]. Publisher's red cloth blocked in gilt to spine and black and gilt to upper board, top edge gilt. Frontispiece by A. Morrow. Some spotting to preliminaries and edges, edges toned. Cloth slightly rubbed to..... More
The Cross of Lazzaro.
London: Hutchinson, 1965. [Disaster Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.232. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by David Fawcett. Miss Cond's usual exemplary condition, with a...... More
The Old Trade of Killing.
London: Hutchinson, 1966. [Treasure Hunt Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.236 [4]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's brown cloth with yellow titles to spine, and grey endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Val Biro. Miss Cond's..... More
The Spring of Malice.
London: Hutchinson, 1962. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.349 [3]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's brown cloth with silver and red titles to spine, a red device stamped to upper, and grey endpapers. With the..... More
The Unforgiving Wind.
London: Hutchinson, 1963. [Arctic Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.316. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to Eileen M. Cond's distinctive bookplate on fly-leaf. Publisher's grey cloth with blue and white titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Val Biro, priced at 18s. Miss Cond's..... More
The Camera Fiend.
London, T. Fisher Unwin. 1911. First Edition. 8vo. 352pp. Publisher's bottle green cloth titled in gilt to spine and white to front board. Cloth clean, some wear to extremities and bumping to spine ends, front inner hinge starting with an old glue stain to the gutter. Some light foxing notable..... More
Captain Shannon.
London: Ward, Lock, and co., 1897. First Edition, signed presentation copy. Octavo. Bound in publisher's black cloth, with red embossed "By order, Captain Shannon" to front board, and red embossed titles to spine; uncut. Illustrated with sixteen full-page illustrations. Binding is rubbed, bumped to spine ends, slightly worn to extremities..... More
No Country for Old Men.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. [Neo-Western] ADVANCE READER'S COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 306 [6]. Publisher's soft covers designed by Chip Kidd, with additional flap to front cover. Very light handling. Near fine. Basis for the 2007 Coen Brothers' Oscar-winning film of the same name, set in..... More
Modesty Blaise: The Silver Mistress.
London: Souvenir Press, 1973. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.254. Publisher's cyan cloth with silver titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at £2.20. Ownership sticker to top left of front pastedown. Very lightly sunned to jacket spine. Near fine. The sixth full-length Modesty Blaise thriller, developed..... More
The Female of The Species.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1928]. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312; [8], advertisements. In publisher's light blue cloth blocked in black to spine and upper. Edges clean, no inscriptions. A lovely fine copy, lacking the scarce jacket. The fifth Bulldog Drummond thriller... More
Clues of the Caribbees, Being Certain Criminal Investigations of Henry Poggioli, Ph.D.
London: Heinemann. 1930. First Edition of a Haycraft Queen Cornerstones listed title. Octavo. pp. 328. In publisher's cyan cloth with gilt titles to spine. Foxing to edges, and slightly within. Some fading to spine. Otherwise a clean crisp copy. In these five short stories, Dr. Henry Poggioli of Ohio State..... More
The Dark Eyes of London.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., no date [1930s]. [Thriller] First Ward Lock Edition. PUBLISHER'S FILE COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256; [3]. Publisher's tan cloth, titles in black to spine, dust-jacket by Abbey, with printed price of 5s. net. Publisher's file copy signified by an ink stamp to title page..... More
Sick Heart River.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1941. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.318 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the blue dust-jacket illustrated by Bip Pares, priced at 8/3. Spotting and toning to edges; light offsetting to endpapers. Two tape burns to reverse of jacket..... More
The Secret Pilgrim.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. [Spy Thriller] SIGNED FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (24 x 17cm), pp.[10] 335 [7]. SIGNED by the author in blue ink to a tipped in blank. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine and upper. Fore-edge untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by R.D...... More
A Secret Service. Being Strange Tales of a Nihilist.
London: Ward, Lock and Bowden, Limited, 1896. FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's green cloth blocked in black and red to spine and upper board, gilt titles to spine. Neat contemporary ownership inscription and 'W.H. Smith and Son, London' bookseller's blind stamp to flyleaf, some toning to endpapers..... More
A Venetian Reckoning.
London: Macmillan, 1995. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[8] 231 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £14.99. Lightly browned throughout. A fine copy. The fourth in the popular Commissario Brunetti series, set in Venice. More
Sir Percy Leads the Band. The new Scarlet Pimpernel novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.316. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles in original illustrated dust-wrapper. Top edge dusty, jacket lightly worn, two small chips to crown, spine sunned. Very good indeed. Another classic entry in famous adventure series set during the French Revolution where swashbuckling rescue..... More
The Ware Case.
London: Methuen. 1913. First edition, later issue. 8vo. Publisher's bright red cloth titled in gilt to spine, minor edgewear, very good indeed. In the scarce dustwrapper, near fine save for the excision of the price label from the spine. With the incredibly rare wraparound band advertising the play of this..... More
The Chinese Nail Murders (A Judge Dee Mystery). A Chinese detective story suggested by original ancient Chinese plots.
London: Michael Joseph, 1961. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.216. Publisher's orange cloth lettered in gilt to spine, sketch-map to endpapers printed in orange, dust-wrapper designed by Kenneth Farnhill, priced at 15s. net. Edges and endpapers browned, remnants of gummed label to rear pastedown, jacket is..... More
The Black-Eyed Blonde. A Philip Marlowe Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Henry Holt, 2014. [Detective mystery] DELUXE EDITION, SIGNED by the author. Number 86 of 100 copies thus. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 290; [4]. Publisher's glit-stamped black leather over marbled paper covered sides, light grey endpapers. Fine / as new. A new novel..... More
Billion Dollar Brain.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. [Cold War thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.312. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine and white braille design to upper. With the metallic-effect dust-jacket designed by Raymond Hawkey, priced at 21s. Jacket shows some rubbing to edges, with several closed tears, and..... More