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Category: Crime / Detective

ABOUT THE MURDER OF A MAN AFRAID OF WOMEN A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery.

Abbot, Anthony: ABOUT THE MURDER OF A MAN AFRAID OF WOMEN A THATCHER COLT DETECTIVE MYSTERY.

New York: Farrar and Rinehart. 1937

First edition, first printing. Original cloth, no dustwrapper. A VERY GOOD copy with no inscriptions or stamps. The cloth is clean but slightly faded to the spine. Feint corner crease to top of the title page.

item reserved £25.00

ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery.

Abbot, Anthony: ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE CIRCUS QUEEN A THATCHER COLT DETECTIVE MYSTERY.

New York: Covici Friede 1932

First edition, first printing. Original cloth, no dustwrapper. A near VERY GOOD copy, the cloth is rubbed to the edges and darkened to the spine. Contents complete with small ink name to the front pastedown and the odd finger mark throughout.

+ add to basket £12.00

ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE NIGHT CLUB LADY A Thatcher Colt Detective Mystery.

Abbot, Anthony: ABOUT THE MURDER OF THE NIGHT CLUB LADY A THATCHER COLT DETECTIVE MYSTERY.

New York: Covici Friede 1931

First edition, first printing. Original cloth, no dustwrapper. A VERY GOOD copy with no inscriptions or stamps. The cloth is darkened to the edges and spine. Contents clean and bright.

+ add to basket £15.00

THE BLUFF

Adams, Herbert: THE BLUFF

London: Collins, The Crime Club. 1938

First edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with black titles to the spine. A VERY GOOD or better copy with fading to the spine but clean boards. There are no inscriptions or stamps and the text pages are clean with only a couple of spots to the text block edges when closed. The binding leans slightly. A nice copy.

+ add to basket £125.00

WELCOME HOME

Adams, Herbert: WELCOME HOME

London: Macdonald. [1946]

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A VERY GOOD copy with no inscriptions or stamps, spine leans a little. Complete with the GOOD original dustwrapper which is chipped with loss to the top of the spine and front panel with rubbing and creasing to the extremities. Archival paper to the reverse. Not price-clipped.

+ add to basket £25.00

DEATH AMONG FRIENDS

Ainsworth, Harriet (pseudonym of Elizabeth Cadell): DEATH AMONG FRIENDS

London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1964

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A lovely NEAR FINE clean, bright and tight copy with no inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the original NEAR FINE lightly creased and price-clipped dustwrapper. Scarce.

+ add to basket £225.00

A LATE PHOENIX

Aird, Catherine: A LATE PHOENIX

London: Collins, The Crime Club. 1970

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A lovely FINE copy with no inscriptions or stamps in very NEAR FINE lightly rubbed dustwrapper. Not price-clipped.

+ add to basket £40.00

TEN CROWDED HOURS

Alington, Cyril. A. (pseudonym of S. C. Westerham): TEN CROWDED HOURS

London: Macdonald. [1944]

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A VERY GOOD copy with no inscriptions or stamps in VERY GOOD lightly worn price-clipped dustwrapper. Hubin.

+ add to basket £45.00

AN INSIDE JOB

Allan, Stella: AN INSIDE JOB

London: Collins, The Crime Club. 1978

First edition, first printing of the author’s first novel for The Crime Club. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A VERY GOOD copy with small ink name to the front free endpaper in VERY GOOD dustwrapper that has a couple of short closed tears and is not price-clipped.

+ add to basket £12.00

BLIND MAN’S DITCH

Allen, Walter: BLIND MAN’S DITCH

London: Michael Joseph. 1939

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY signed and dated by the author on the front free endpaper. A VERY GOOD copy with a little rubbing to the cloth extremities and some spotting to the prelims and text block edges. The binding remains square and tight. Complete with the original dustwrapper which is a little rubbed and nicked to the edges with a couple of short closed tears. Not price-clipped (7/6net). The author’s second novel.

+ add to basket £75.00

DANCERS IN MOURNING

Allingham, Margery: DANCERS IN MOURNING

US: Doubleday Doran. 1937

First US edition. Original cloth, dustwrapper. A VERY GOOD copy in original VERY GOOD bright and attractive dustwrapper. A nice copy.

+ add to basket £90.00

A KIND OF ANGER

Ambler, Eric: A KIND OF ANGER

London: Fontana / Collins. 1976

Reprint of the first Fontana Books edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Original publisher’s card covers pictorial card covers. A NEAR FINE copy. Inscribed by the author to his Finnish publisher in black ink on the title page “To Roland[o] Pierccini from Eric Ambler March 78”

+ add to basket £30.00

CAUSE FOR ALARM

Ambler, Eric: CAUSE FOR ALARM

London: Hodder and Stoughton. 1938

First edition, first printing. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION COPY. Original blue cloth with black titles to the front and spine. A VERY GOOD copy with a little rubbing to the cloth extremities and mild darkening of the spine. The contents are clean and complete with only the author’s inscription to the title page. Scarce in signed state. Inscribed in blue ink “To Auntie Cis and Uncle Arthur, With love and kisses from Eric”

+ add to basket £750.00

THE ARMY OF THE SHADOWS AND OTHER STORIES

Ambler, Eric: THE ARMY OF THE SHADOWS AND OTHER STORIES

Helsinki: Eurographica. 1986

First edition thus. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Original publisher’s card covers in dustwrapper. Printed by Tipografia Nobili on special Michelangelo paper made at the Magnani Paper Mills in Pescia, Italy. A FINE unread copy in FINE dustwrapper. Signed and dated by the author in black ink on the title page. Numbered 264 of 350 copies to the limitation page at the rear.

+ add to basket £65.00

THE INTERCOM CONSPIRACY

Ambler, Eric: THE INTERCOM CONSPIRACY

London: Fontana / Collins. 1977

Reprint of the first Fontana Books edition. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Original publisher’s card covers pictorial card covers. A NEAR FINE copy. Inscribed by the author to his Finnish publisher in black ink on the title page “To Roland[o] Pierccini from Eric Ambler March 78”

+ add to basket £30.00

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Thompson, Flora: LARK RISE

First edition, first printing. Original cloth, in dustwrapper. A superb NEAR FINE clean and bright - more info...
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Auden, W. H.: THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES

First edition, first printing [precedes the UK edition]. AUTHOR’S COPY. Original tan cloth backed - more info...
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Fleming, Ian: GOLDFINGER

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A lovely NEAR FINE copy with no - more info...
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Eliot, T. S.: OLD POSSUM’S BOOK OF PRACTICAL CATS

First edition, first printing. Original cloth in dustwrapper. A FINE copy with bright and clean - more info...
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Lawrence, D. H.: WOMEN IN LOVE

First UK edition. One of only 50 copies. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Bound in the publisher’s brown cloth - more info...
 
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