The Crooked Lip
London: Methuen, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, pp. 256, 8-ads. Orange boards with black lettering, no dust jacket. A couple of light bumps to spine ends. Tight and square boards, near fine copy. More
Detective/Crime Fiction
The Dean's Daughters
London: MacDonald & Co., 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 240p. Green boards with gilt spine lettering, cloth at the corners and spine ends rubbed, spine ends bumped, ink name to paste-down, and author inscription to the front endpaper. The dust jacket not price clipped, with small chips at the corners..... More
The Golden Ape
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. 8vo. Yellow cloth with green lettering to the front board and spine. Yellow boards a little thumbed and lightly bumped at the spine head, but very clean, in a tight and square binding. Dust jacket not price clipped..... More
Oddways
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition. Precedes UK edition. Brown cloth with blue lettering to the front board and spine. Light wear to the corners and one heavily bumped corner, a couple small bumps to the board edges and spine ends, clean throughout and the..... More
Roger Bennions Double
London: The Crime Club/ Collins, 1941. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 252, [3]-ads. Red cloth with black lettering, in the dust jacket. Spine ends bumped, with light bumps to the corners and some sunning to the board edges, clean break in the paper over the front hinge, weak glue in production perhaps..... More
The Sloane Square Mystery
New York: Lincoln MacVeagh/The Dial Press, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Orange cloth with black lettering to front board and spine. Tips of spine very lightly rubbed at the foot, small diamond shaped rubber stamp to pastedown and to foot of jacket spine. Text block tight and square, clean copy in..... More
The Flying Death
Toronto: The Musson Book Co., 1908. Hardcover. 8vo. 239p. 4 illustrations by C. R. Macaulay. Red cloth with white lettering, illustrated front board and spine, spine lettering and illustration yellowed, with some light chipping to the lettering. Light wear or bumping to the board corners and spine ends, with the..... More
The Secret of Lonesome Cove
Indianopolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt letering to front board and spine. Rubbing to head and foot of spine and light rubbing to the board tips, light wear to one corner. Black and white plates, tissue guarded frontis. Tight and square copy. More
An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of The illustrious Colonel Clay.
London: Grant Richards, 1897. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo, viii, 317 p., [2] - ads. Publisher's original green cloth with gilt stamped illustrated front board, with gilt lettering. Spine ends expertly repaired with Japanese tissue and coloured to match, the text block repaired, with a few pencil ticks in the margins..... More
Dancers in Mourning
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 336p. Black cloth with orange spine lettering. Bottom corners and spine ends bumped, bookplate pasted-in to the verso of the intro page facing the half-title. Map endpapers, with a piece of ripped paper glued to the edge of..... More
The Gyrth Chalice Mystery
New York: The Crime Club/ Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Pp. 318, [1] -ad. Black cloth boards with red lettering. Light bumping to the spine ends, else a fresh and tight copy. Dust jacket price clipped, with heavy creasing and chipping along the edges, with..... More
Epitaph for a Spy
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. Hardcover. Second printing, March 1938. 8vo. Black lettered light blue cloth in decorative dust jacket. Very light bump to one corner and a touch yellowed to upper edges of boards and spine. Dust jacket with scuff to front panel and a half inch bite from..... More
The Body on Page One
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1951. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red boards with black lettering. Corners and spine ends bumped, spine darkened at the foot from large chip in the jacket, offsetting to the endpapers and foxing to the text-block edges. Dust jacket not price clipped, chipped at the corners and..... More
Corpse Diplomatique
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with white spine lettering. Very light bumping to the spine foot, with the previous owner's name and address to the front endpaper, else clean throughout and the binding tight and square. The dust jacket price clipped, with a few..... More
Crime out of Mind
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Red cloth with black spine lettering. Book near fine, dust jacket not price clipped, with a few light nicks in the upper edges and spine, spine sunned, overall a nice clean copy in an excellent dust jacket. More
Lucky Jane or For Old Crime's Sake
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1959. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Green boards with gilt lettering. Corners and spine ends very lightly bumped, just slightly cocked, clean throughout. Dust jacket not price clipped, with light wear to the corners, some edge creasing from little rips, spine rubbed and sunned at the bottom..... More
She Shall Have Murder
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Orange cloth boards with red lettering to the front board and spine. Very light rubbing to the spine ends and some thumbing or handling marks to the read board. Ink name and address, with date, on the front endpaper, and a...... More
The James Bond Dossier
London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Gilt lettered black cloth in price clipped pictorial dust jacket. Fullsome inscription on the front endpaper. Overall a good tight copy. More
The Poison Trail (New Ninepenny Novels Number 20)
London: Ernest Benn Limited, 1932. Softcover. 12mo. Original printed covers with short tear in the paper at the spine head and a small nick to the spine foot, else a clean and tight copy. Number 20 in the New Ninepenny Novels series, Leaders of Modern Fiction. Near fine copy... More
The Secret Trail
Philadelphia: Macrae Smith Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. First American edition. Orange cloth with blue lettering to the front board and spine. Very light bumping to the spine ends and a neat name to the front endpaper. Dust jacket not price clipped, lightly nicked corners and a few edges, with..... More
The Strange Case of Mr. Pelham
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. Light coloured boards with red lettered spine. One corner lightly bumped, edges age-toned, light offsetting to the endpapers, clean and unmarked and in a tight and square binding. Dust jacket not price clipped, some light foxing to..... More
The Adventures of Romney Pringle
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1968. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Piece of tape to each flap from being taped to the pastedowns, with evidence of bookplate removal from the front endpaper, otherwise a good clean copy in a dust jacket that is faded at the spine. More
From A Surgeon's Diary
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1977. Hardcover. Brown cloth with gilt lettering in the dust jacket. Spine fade to jacket. Good clean copy, binding tight and square. More
The Further Adventures of Romney Pringle
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1969. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt lettering. Piece of tape to each flap from being taped to the pastedowns, with evidence of bookplate removal from the front endpaper, otherwise a good clean copy in a dust jacket that is faded at the spine. More
The Queen's Treasure
Philadelphia: Oswald Train, 1975. Hardcover. Navy coloured cloth with gilt lettering in the dust jacket. Spine fade to jacket. Good clean copy, binding tight and square. More