158 pages, with one leaf of Badger books at rear. Soil and wear to covers. Thin black swipe of ink to top edge. Bookseller's stamp to first leaf (half title); else unmarked. 6.9 x 4.5 View More...
307 pages. First edition in book form; published 26 October 1916 [Hillier & Ross 50]; this example in dark green cloth. Half-inch strip of nibbling to top edge of upper board, a dot of white, and light rubbing. Foxing to first few and final few leaves. Lacking front free endpaper (first leaf is the half title). Former owner's faint pencil signature to half title; else unmarked. 7.5 x 5.2 inches. View More...
251, [4] pages. An early issue, with The Mysterious Mr Quin not listed. Rubbing and light soil to cloth; light foxing and a few small stains to first few leaves; small chip off lower outer corner of a number of leaves. Binding is sound; no inscriptions. 7.5 x 5.25. View More...
222 pages. Jacket price clipped, rubbed, half inch closed tear along lower joint at heel; with faint tideline most noticable on verso but visible in white bordered title upper front panel. Tiny ding to upper corner of pages 31-54; else fine, with no inscriptions. View More...
256 pages. Andrew Melrose's "Red Jacket" 2/6 Novels series. "Third Edition" on jacket spine; "Third Impression" on title page. No stated date of issue; 1936 presumed as Creasey's Melrose novels list to Thunder In Europe (not yet The Terror Trap or The House of Ferrars [our sincere thanks to the Classic Crime Fiction page]. Jacket worn, and reinforced with brown paper verso. Also verso a list of dates and names. Top edge tanned and spotted. Binding sound; no inscriptions. 7.5 x 5.4 inches. View More...
193 pages. Boards soiled; foxing to firsr few and final few leaves and occasionally within. 1907 pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is sound. View More...
16 pages. 4 x 2.8 inches. Excellent condition, with no rust to staple. The story had appeared a few months earlier, in the 2 January 1897 issue of Chambers's Journal, under the authorship of W. E. Cule (pp. 12-15). Uncommon; we have handled only four of these in 40 years. View More...
205, [5] pages, with list of new titles in the Flashlight Detective Series on rear cover verso (this title third). No stated date of issue. General wear overall, but sound. 7 x 4.75 inches. View More...
219, [7] pages, with list of new titles in the Flashlight Detective Series on rear cover verso (this title last). No stated date of issue. General wear overall, but sound. 7 x 4.75 inches. View More...
vi, 287 pages. Spine sunned and covers unevenly so; extremities rubbed. Publisher's orange topstain. Light offsetting to endpapers; a solitary tick of ink to front free endpaper. Contents clean and binding sound. First edition stated. Uncommon. Published in the UK by Harrap as Murder Most Artistic. View More...
ix, [2], 267 pages; with 8 page list of Modern Library titles at rear. 95 cent jacket price, with 309 titles verso. Light rubbing, creasing, and toning to jacket; unobtrusive ownership inscriptions to front endpapers; else unmarked. 7.25 x 5 inches. View More...
306 pages. Authorial inscription in red to second leaf dated Dec. 25, 1938; and the recipient's note-to-self penciled on first leaf. Offsetting from binder's paste to gutter front and rear. Binding is sound. 7.75 x 5.5 inches. View More...
181 pages. Price clipped jacket, with ding to lower left right panel of jacket and board; light sunning to pink of Duffy on spine. No inscriptions. Jacket now in a removable archival sleeve. View More...
176 pages. Unabridged and printed in Canada (stated). Publisher's red stain to textblock. Light rubbing only; no spine crease. A few letters inked to first leaf. 7 x 4.2 inches View More...
288 pages. Light wear to covers; spine with creases likely from the binding process. No inscriptions. [The first edition was issued 1941, Boston: Bruce Humphries]. 6.8 x 4.25 inches. View More...
350 pages. "First Cheap Edition". Seventh impression January 1936. Jacket spine and edges toned. Toning and light foxing to textblock edges; ownership signature and light foxing on front free endpaper; leaves toned. Binding is sound. View More...