Crime & Thrillers
So Long at the Fair.
London: William Heinemann, 1947. [Mystery Romance] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[8] 170 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by George Mansell, priced at 7/6. A lovely crisp, clean copy, with just a touch of toning and handling to jacket. Near fine..... More
'A Game of Bridge At Blades' [Moonraker] in Best Gambling Stories.
London: Faber and Faber, 1961. [High stakes anthology] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.215. Publisher's cloth hardcovers in illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 16s. Autographed in black ink to f.e.p. Some spotting to text block else a fine copy in a clean, bright wrapper. Contains the text of the..... 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
Ordeal By Innocence.
London: For The Crime Club by Collins, 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's red cloth, titled in black, with typographical dust-wrapper, priced clipped. Discreet ownership hidden beneath flap. A few light spots/marks to rear but essentially a crisp, fine copy with particularly strong colours. Most..... More
Our Man In Havana.
London: Heinemann, 1958. [Satirical spy novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[6]; 273; [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Donald Green. A few light marks to page edges, price clipped jacket is particularly bright with no toning to the spine whatsoever..... More
Millennium Trilogy. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; The Girl Who Played with Fire; The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest; Afterword—Stieg Larsson: Four Essays and an Exchange of e-mails.
London: MacLehose Press, Quercus, 2010. [Swedish Crime Thriller] FIRST BOX SET, complete in four volumes. Octavo (25 x 17 x 15cm), pp.[8] 454 [2]; pp.[8] 517 [3]; pp.[8] 599 [1]; pp.[8] 85 [3]. Publisher's variously coloured cloth, with gilt titles to spines and maps to endpapers. With a series of..... More
Faceless Killers.
London: Harvill Press, 2000. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 280; [2]. With a map. Signed by the author in blue ink to title page. Publisher's navy cloth with gilt titles to spine. Navy endpapers. With the dust-jacket designed by Peter Dyer, priced at..... More
No More Dying Then.
London: Hutchinson, 1971. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.198; Publisher's black cloth lettered in gilt to spine, dust-wrapper design by Colin Andrews with printed price of £1.60 to flap. Neat ownership to verso of flyleaf, minor spotting to edges. Jacket lightly bruised at the foot of the..... More
The Given Day: An Amsterdam Mystery.
Kuala Lumpur: Art Printing Works, 1964. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 132 [2]. With seven illustrated plates by the author. Publisher's plain soft covers titled in red and blue. A production fault causing creasing to lower corners of pp.21-30, as usual. Light spotting to edges and..... More
Destination Unknown.
London: The Crime Club, by Collins, 1954. [Spy novel] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's cloth binding in dust-wrapper priced at 10/6. No inscriptions. Some toning, spine panel a little browned. Very good indeed. Secret Service thriller from the Queen of Crime; When a number of..... More
Thirty-Seven Dr. Thorndyke Cases.
London: Hodder & Stoughton, No date (1929). [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Crown octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.1080. Publisher's blue cloth trimmed in colours (also issued in tan cloth), illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Contents clean, no inscriptions, some spotting to edges, jacket is dusty/soiled, with a chip to..... More
Strange Stories.
London: William Heinemann, 1929. [Short Stories] FIRST THUS. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[10] 745 [3]. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. Toning to textblock edges, pencil ownership inscription, light spotting to preliminaries, else internally clean. Wearing to edges, more so spine and board corners, shaken in binding, light..... More
The Saint and the Hapsburg Necklace.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1976. [Crime Fiction] FIRST UK HARDBACK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.192; [2], blank. Red cloth hardcover, illustrated dust-jacket priced £3.15. A particularly fine book which appears unread. Jacket similarly crisp and fine, with some trivial wear to spine ends and red lettering slightly sunned..... More
They Came to Baghdad.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1951. [Crime Mystery] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. Recently re-bound in burgundy half calf, with gilt titles to spine, raised bands, and matching cloth over boards. All edges trimmed, with the original publisher's cloth spine bound in..... More
They Do it With Mirrors.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1952. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Farnhill, priced at 10/6. Book is slightly dusty, no inscriptions. Jacket with a little wear to joints and extremities, small amount..... More
Towards Zero.
London: Published by The Crime Club by Collins, 1944. [Crime Mystery] FINELY BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 160 [2]. Recently bound in burgundy half morocco, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. Lightly trimmed for binding. Paper slightly toned as usual. A...... More
The Doomsters.
London: Cassell and Co. Ltd., A Crime Connoisseur Book, 1958. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.[vi]; 225; [1], blank. Publisher's hardback cloth binding in pictorial dust-jacket priced 12/6. A crisp, fine example in like jacket with one creased tear to upper. Near fine- appears unread. Another case for the..... More
Night on The Devil's Pathway. [Night on the Pathway]. A Master Thriller.
London: The World's Work, 1938. [American Crime Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo. Publisher's light green cloth titled in black to spine and upper. With the colour illustrated dust-jacket. Very light wear to spine ends. dustwrapper, bright, sharp and clean with very slight wear to head and tail of spine. Trifling..... More
The Billboard Madonna.
London: Heinemann, 1960. [Ethical Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[4] 316. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to distinctive bookplate on flyleaf: 'A Eileen, avec | mes sentiments | les plus distinguees. | Elleston Trevor | Riviera Palace | Beausoleil (AM) | France.' Also SIGNED in..... More
At Bertram's Hotel.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1965. [Crime Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 256 [2]. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed, with the original cloth spine bound in..... More
Cat Among the Pigeons.
London: The Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Crime Fiction] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[2] 255 [3]. Recently re-bound in navy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed, with the original cloth spine bound in..... More
The Quiet American.
London: William Heinemann, 1955. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 247 [1]. Publisher's dark grey cloth with gilt titles to spine. With dust-jacket illustrated by BGS, priced at 13/6. Contents clean with a very few spots to fore-edge, blue ink ownership hidden beneath flap, jacket..... More
Murder at Eight Bells.
London; Columbine Publishing Company. n.d. [1939]. First EDition. 8vo. Publisher's orange cloth faded to spine and extremities to an attractive poached salmon, possibly that's not a standard book colour.Tight, clean and sharp. Very good indeed (except for being sunned) in a very good, unclipped dustwrapper with corresponding fading to spine..... More
Count On The Saint. The Pastor's Problem [and] The Unsaintly Santa.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. [Crime caper] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[2] 175 [5]. Recently re-bound in red half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. All edges lightly trimmed, with the original cloth spine bound in at rear..... More
Saint Errant.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.253; [1], advert. Elegantly hand-bound in half brown calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents clean with some light spotting to first and final..... More