Resultados de búsqueda: Crime Fiction from Clearwater Books

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1934. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing - with the Scribner seal and 'A' on the copyright page). 8vo. 283pp + [vii] publishers advertisements. Black cloth lettered and ruled in green at the spine and upper board. Top edge lightly dust soiled and with just a trace of wear to the head of the backstrip. Former owner name inked to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in slightly rubbed and edgeworn non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a light but quite lengthy vertical crease to the front flap. The eighth Philo Vance detective story..

Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1924. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first American edition of the author's first novel, issued four years after the fugitive UK edition. 8vo. 319pp. Brown cloth lettered in red at the spine and upper board (although the spine lettering is now somewhat tough to make out). Cloth rubbed, chafed and a little worn at the extremities. Hinges tender yet binding still firm. Paperstock tanned with the occasional light miscellaneous marginal blemish. A good copy. Originally published by Collins in June 1920 in a print run of 1,000 copies, Crofts' Haycraft Cornerstone was an immediate success, launching his career as one of the great writers of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction..

Robert Hale Ltd., London, 1985. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 189pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. A fine copy in lightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A posthumously-published crime novel..

Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1958. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 192pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A very light scattering of spotting to the fore edge and free endpapers, and a tiny dealer plate to the front pastedown (obscured by the wrapper flap). Very good indeed in non-price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper, lightly soiled at the rear panel with several tiny slivers of edge-loss. The author's first book, and the first of his Inspector Purbright-featuring series of Flaxborough crime novels. Uncommon..

Hutchinson, London [1950]. Book. Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) of the author's second crime novel. 8vo. 192pp. Brown cloth lettered in black at the spine. Top- and fore edge quite spotted, and with a touch of additional spotting and browning to several preliminary leaves. Quite a crisp copy in publisher clipped and re-priced dust wrapper, a somewhat handled example with several short closed tears and accompanying creases and four or five area of loss to spine ends and tips of several corners. Fleming published five children's books before her first crime novel, 'Two Lovers too Many', in 1949. Her second, 'A Daisy-Chain for Satan', was published the following year followed by over thirty further crime novels, two of which won her the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger Award: 'When I Grow Rich' (1962) and 'Young Man I Think You're Dying' (1970)..

Orion Books Ltd., London, 1999. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 1st Edition. An uncorrected proof copy of the first edition. 8vo. 406pp. Publisher's lettered glossy card wrappers featuring a black and white photograph of the author on the upper wrapper. A single light but lengthy readership crease to the spine and a touch of very light wear to the wrappers. A nice crisp uncorrected proof of the tenth volume in the author's Inspector Rebus series..

Macmillan, London, 1981. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 224pp. Black boards lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. Several tiny indentations to the rear board and the faint ghost of an almost entirely erased pencilled notation to the head of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, fractionally toned at the spine panel and with a small series of corresponding indentations to the rear panel. The fifth instalment on the author Inspector Morse series (but the first story to be adapted for television)..

William Heinemann, London, 1955. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition. 8vo. 212pp. Black boards lettered in slightly dulled gold at spine. A small area of spotting to fore edge, occasionally encroaching to extreme margins of text leaves. A very good copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly edgeworn with several short closed tears, several tiny slivers of loss and some dust soiling to the predominantly white rear panel. The third and final of Vidal's pseudonymous Peter Cutler detective novels..

Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1936. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 318pp + a multi-panel folding map at the rear. Black cloth lettered in red at the spine. Some spotting to the edges, encroaching a fraction to occasional leaf margins, and some further spotting a dozen or so preliminary leaves and to three or four concluding leaves. The map lightly creased where it has at some point been mis-folded. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the black and pink lettered yellow first state dust wrapper, with some toning to the spine panel and just a trace of light spotting and edgewear. A super copy of the author's elusive first novel, and the first of his Detective Inspector John Appleby 'entertainments', a 'closed circle of suspects' mystery set in a fictional Oxford college..

Constable, London, 1987. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 222pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. Leaf margins a little tanned, else a fine copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a single small crease to the head of the rear panel. The fourth instalment of Sylvia Haymon's acclaimed series of East Anglian crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Ben Jurnet..

Faber, London, 1977. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 265pp. Red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Very good indeed in non-price-clipped dust wrapper with several tiny areas of chafing and just a little fading to the publisher's red spine panel lettering. Former owner initials and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper. The sixth Adam Dalgliesh mystery..

Macmillan, London, 1983. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Signed by Author(s). 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 192pp. Brown boards lettered and ruled in silver at the spine. The merest hint of tanning to the leaf margins, else a fine copy in fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper..

Faber, London, 1991. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 241pp. Black boards lettered in white at the spine. Boards lightly marked in one or two places and top edge lightly speckled. A hint of tanning to leaf margins. A very crisp and bright copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed and chafed at head of spine panel and several other extremities. Dibdin's sixth novel..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1980. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 181pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge spotted and the tips of two corners gently knocked. A little very light browning and spotting to the front free endpaper. Very good indeed in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author's first pseudonymous crime novel, of which there would eventually be four, detailing the exploits of his bi-sexual sleuth Duffy..

The Book Club, London [1938?] Book. Good. Hardcover. The first illustrated edition, with four half-tone captioned plates depicting scenes from the novel which were created specially for this "special edition" for the Book Club. 8vo. 316pp. Quarter cloth with textured paper-covered sides, lettered in black at the spine. The red backstrip cloth considerably faded and with a touch of marking to the boards and a small area of surface abrasion. Free endpapers browned. Some fading to the publisher's red top edge stain and a little light spotting to the fore edge. Quite a nice bright copy, lacking the dust wrapper. The fourteenth Poiret mystery..

Jarrolds Ltd., London [1944]., 1944. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First UK Edition (first printing), issued a year after the US edition. 8vo. 168pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine. A touch of wear to the corner tips, and a single tiny indentation to the head of the upper board. A very good copy in slightly rubbed and dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The author [Hilda] Van Siller's first crime novel. This UK edition being especially uncommon..

Collins, 'The Crime Club' series, London, 1945. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first UK Edition (first printing) - originally issued in the US a year earlier. 8vo. 192pp. Red cloth lettered in black at the spine. A sliver of discolouration to the spine ends, and with two tiny pin-pricks of spotting to the head of the half-title and title page. A very good copy - albeit printed on slightly substandard wartime economy paperstock - in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust soiled, with some edge creasing, and with a little loss to the spine panel ends, two corner tips and with a further half inch of loss form the head of the front panel. Quite uncommon in the first UK edition state..

Jonathan Cape, London, 1981. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 173pp. Blue boards lettered in gold at the spine. Edges, endpapers and occasional leaf margins lightly spotted. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a touch of spotting to the wrapper flaps. The author's second pseudonymous crime novel, detailing the exploits of his bi-sexual sleuth Duffy. The identity-concealing blurb on the rear panel of the dust wrapper a delight: "Dan Kavanagh was born in Co. Sligo in 1946. After an uncompromising adolescence, at nineteen he became assistant entertainments officer on a Japanese supertanker and travelled the world. He has been a pianist in a waterfront bar in Macao, a baggage handler at San Francisco International Airport, and has flown light planes on the Colombian cocaine route"..

Quercus, London, 2010. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 468pp. Black boards lettered in silver at the spine. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends, and several small indentations to the upper board. A very good copy, in fine state internally, housed in the non-price-clipped silver dust wrapper which is very slightly rubbed and with a series of corresponding indentations to the front panel. The seventh book in Kerr's superb Bernie Gunther series..

Secker & Warburg, London, 1974. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. The first printing of the first UK edition. 8vo. 254pp. Black boards, lettered and ruled in gold at the spine. A tiny trace of spotting to top edge and a small scuff to the tip of the front free endpaper. A virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly rubbed at two extremities and with a single tiny nick..