"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. "
— Oscar Wilde
Crime & Thrillers
Hawksmoor.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[6]; 217; [1]. Publisher's dark brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. Typographic dust-jacket designed by Russell Mills, with printed price £8.95 to flap. Heavy toning to textblock edges, but otherwise a clean, crisp copy. Some minor marking..... More
Hilda Wade.
London: Grant Richards, 1900. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's dark blue cloth titled and decorated in gilt to spine and front board. A used copy with some shelfwear,rubbed to extremities, gilt illustration rubbed to upper, discreet owner stamp to flyleaf, inside paper joint cracked. Very good. Illustrated throughout by Gordon Browne..... More
The Ability to Kill: True Tales of Bloody Murder.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Press, 1987. [True Crime] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xxii; 214 [2]. Letter I of 26 lettered copies, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's deep red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the matching cloth-covered slipcase..... More
The Mask Of Dimitrios.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1939. FIRST EDITION. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone novel. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.320. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine. Internally very clean with no ownership marks, bookplates or inscriptions. Covers are fresh but for a little sunning to spine, a few small marks and the..... More
Uncommon Danger.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1937. [Intrigue] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.314; [6], advertisements. Publisher's pale blue cloth lettered in black, mid-blue endpapers, pictorial jacket by Gibbs, priced 7/6. Trivial toning to edge of text block, jacket with very light rubbing/wear to extremities. Overall a lovely fine copy of..... More
The Riverside Villas Murder.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1973. [Crime Mystery] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's green monogrammed card covers. Light handing to covers. Worn and a little toned to spine, with a reading lean. Very good. An old-fashioned whodunit, set in the 1930s. 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
The Patriots.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp. [6]; 390. Publisher's teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine, illustrative dust-jacket with printed price of 16s to front flap. Toning and spotting to edges of textblock and flyleaf, bumping to spine, price clipped, toning and spotting..... More
The Endless Chain.
London: Alvin Redman Limited, 1956. [Crime Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.256. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'Dear John | For Greene may come and | Waugh may go | But I go on forever | - well, nearly. | Warmest regards..... More
Trent's Own Case.
New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[10] 324 [2]. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue, others untrimmed. With the dust-jacket designed by Hawkins, priced at $2.00. The usual wood-grain pattern browning to preliminaries..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper. Top edge blue. Toronto bookseller's stamp to flyleaf. Erasure of heavy pencil inscription also to flyleaf. Gently toned throughout. Only very minor rubbing to cloth;..... More
Trent's Own Case.
London: Constable and Co., 1936. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[6] 314. Publisher's orange cloth with blue titles to spine and upper, top edge blue, in typographic dust-wrapper priced at 7/6. With author's ink inscription to flyleaf; Neil and Alice / With love from /..... 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
Duane and the Art Murders.
London: Cassell and Company, Limited, 1939. [Dective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[8]; 246; [2]. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine, splendid dust-jacket designed by Ronald Lampitt with printed price of 3'6 net to spine. Bookplate detailing provenance to pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers, spotting and dustiness..... More
The Man in the Shadows.
London: Rich and Cowan, 1954. [Crime Thriller] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.208. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to fly-leaf: 'To | Margaret & Denys | with all my love | Charles "Barker" Bidmead | Charworth | September 1954.' Publisher's navy cloth with silver titles 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 Dreadful Hollow.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1953. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION, Colonial copy. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Book store stamp to rear blank [New Book Co., Bombay]. Contents clean, no inscriptions, Tokyo bookseller Subun-So label and stamp..... More
Head of a Traveller.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1949. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, no inscriptions. Spine sunned; a good, used copy without the jacket. The baffling case of a headless corpse found in..... More
My Mother was a Bank Robber, and Other Stories.
London: Revolver, 1998. [Crime stories] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo, pp.64. No.11 of just 200 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. In original lilac card covers with a colour / black and white photo montage pasted to the front cover. Price label mark to back cover..... More
Inferno.
London: Bantam Press, 2013. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[xii]; [466]. Publisher's pictorial paper covered boards with titles in white to spine, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claire Ward. Some minor bumps and shelfwear. Near fine. The fourth book in the Robert Langdon series; Langdon wakes up with..... More
The Dancing Floor.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, no date [1926]. [Mystery Thriller] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.311 [9]. SIGNED by the author in black ink to title page. With a frontispiece map of the island. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine and upper. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced..... More
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The Island of Sheep. [A Richard Hannay Novel].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. [Spy Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.318 [2]. Publisher's green cloth with gilt titles to spine, gilt 'JB' monogram to upper board, and map printed to front endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Chesterman, priced at 7/6 to spine. Black ink ownership to..... More
The Power-House.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1916. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 14cm), pp.x; 238. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine and upper. Textblock browned as expected, endpapers to rear gutter split with the gauze showing through, binding still sound. Slight reading lean. A few small..... More
Huntingtower.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1922. REGULAR FIRST EDITION and VARIANT FIRST EDITION in publisher's TRIAL BINDING. 2 volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.318; [2], blank. The regular binding in pale blue cloth titled and ruled in dark blue, the advance binding in mid blue cloth more heavily blocked in black..... More
The Power House.
London, William Blackwood. 1916. First Edition. 8vo. Publisher's red cloth, sunned to spine. Inner joint started, contents a little toned as usual A cheaply produced 'shilling' novel- this is a very good example. More