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New York: Cupples & Leon Company, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. tan cloth, stamped vignette to front board. 212 pp. B&W frontis. Spine tilted. Boards are coxed and rubbed to extremities, worse at spine. Soiling to boards. Rust staining to rear endpapers. Sporadic spotting to interior. Cracking to inner hinge at p. 89.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1987. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. SIGNED by author with inscription to title page. Quarter blue cloth, blue paper boards. 166 pp. Spine tilted. Dust jacket is tanned to flaps. Near fine overall. An Inspector Charlie Salter Mystery.

Toronto: Little, Brown Canada, 1997. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Orig. red paper boards. 383 pp. Very light toning and bumping to edges of dust jacket, else a fine copy.

New York: Viking, 2013. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Quarter black paper, tan paper boards. 352 pp. Front board slightly bowed and spine slightly tilted, else fine. A mysterious portrait ignites an antiquarian bookseller's search through time and the works of Shakespeare for his lost love.

[Toronto]: Random House Canada, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo. Black cloth, 258pp. Signed on title-page by author. Bruising on spine head and rear top-edge, o/w near fine in fine d/w.

Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1948. Soft cover. Very Good. 4" x 7" Paperback. 250 pp. Covers and spine sunned, some light staining to rear cover. Light creasing to corners.

Toronto: Random House Canada, 2006. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Orig. orange paper boards. 308 pp. Light bumps to spine ends, else fine in a fine jacket. Detective John Cardinal faces his most personal case yet...For years, Cardinal's wife had battled severe depression. When she finally takes her own life, people are saddened but they are not really surprised. Except for Cardinal, who is not only surprised but completely devastated. Despite the suicide note in Catherine's own writing and teh coroner's finding that there is no evidence of foul play, Cardinal cannot brig himself to believe that Catherine has really killed herself. When hateful notes taunting him about his wife's death begin to arrive in the mail, he begins to suspect that maybe someone he has put in jail over the years has murdered his wife as an act of revenge...Part of the series upon which the CTV crime drama Cardinal is based.

[Toronto]: Random House Canada, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 12mo. Orange cloth, 308pp. Signed on title-page. About fine in d/w. A Detective Cardinal novel.

Boston: Hill & Company, Publishers, 1961. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Full blue cloth. 166 pp. Light bumps to spine ends. Some light wear to extremities of dust jacket, else fine. George Smiley, the world's most famous secret agent, is about to retire. But suddenly there is the suicide of a Foreign Office clerk - and with it, many questions. Who wrote the letter denouncing him as a security risk? Why did he take his own life just after Smiley himself had assured him of his clearance? Why would he order a wake-up call the morning after his planned suicide? Who was his wife meeting every other Tuesday night at the theater? What terrible secret was she hiding? The case is as baffling as it is intricate. In this, his first novel, as in all those since, John le Carre gives us a compelling and brilliantly crafted thriller of the quality that has elevated the author and the genre to literary prominence. Here is a spy story that delivers all the best - chilling excitement, superb characterization, moral… Leer más

s.l. [New York]: Walker & Company, 1962. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. In custom blue clamshell case. SIGNED by author to title page. Quarter aqua cloth, brown paper boards. 128 pp. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. Spine sunned and few spots of very light wear to extremities of dust jacket. Harbourfront Reading Series signing event tickets laid in, dated March 25, 1999. A signed copy of Le Carre's first novel, which introduces George Smiley, one of his most famous recurring characters.

New York: Doubleday, 2017. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Quarter green paper, black paper boards. 290 pp. Fine.

E.P. DUTTON & CO, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo. Black cloth binding with original dust jacket. 219 p.p. Some tearing to extremities of jacket and spine, with brown staining on front and rear cover, but otherwise very good. Light rubbing to head and tail of spine, with heavy yellowing of front and rear endpapers. Crisp pages. In very good condition. William Campbell Gault (1910-1995) was an award-winning American writer remembered for his crime and sports fiction. Dutton Guilt Edged Mysteries published 82 novels of detective fiction between 1947 and 1956 and was recently relaunched in 2012 as a digital imprint by Penguin Group.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1968. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Orig. purple paper boards. 223 pp. Spine tilted, extremities sunned, bruising to corners. Dust jacket is sunned, bumped to edges, light chipping to spine ends.

London: John Long, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Orig. black paper boards. 183 pp. Light foxing to text block. Dust jacket is age toned, foxed, sunned to spine, chafed and lightly bumped to extremities.

New York: Lawrence E. Spivak. Soft cover. Good. Square 8vo. (Copr. 1936). Bestseller Mystery Series No. B19. Original pictorial wrappers, 126 (1)pp. ads. Some creasing to pages and tiny tears to some outer margins (not affecting text), some soiling to wrappers with wear along corners and edges, spine darkened with small tears at head and foot but otherwsie good.

New York: Walter J. Black, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. 166 p.p. Cloth. Nicks to edges and tear to spine of dust-jacket. Slight bumping to extremities. Otherwise, book is in fine condition. Gardner was an American lawyer and author. He is best known for the Perry Mason series of detective stories. He wrote numerous other novels and also a series of nonfiction books.

New York: The Macmillan Company of Canada, 1958. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Full tan paper boards. 192 pp. Spine cocked. Ex libris stamp to ffep. Dust jacket is price clipped, edge worn, moderately foxed.

Toronto: RondezVous Crime, 2008. Soft cover. Fine. 8vo. Paperback. 289pp. Signed by author on title-page. About fine. Rick Blechta's jazz tale about songstress Olivia Saint, who is "an angelic songbird with a troubled, violent past.

New York: Pocket Books, 1950. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo. Paperback. A.E.G. 243 pp. Spine tilted, light rubbing to extremities. Stamp reading "#3" to tail edge. Stamp of Athena Used Books to blurb page. The ingredients for murder were: a poisoned kitten; a missing uncle; a slow-speaking gardener; a prospective bride-groom's "accident"; and a domineering aunt. Perry Mason was called in to prevent a murder. But he was too late. And Mason had to race the police to a killer who was almost clever enough to outwit the famous lawyer-detective.

New York: William Morrow, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Quarter black cloth, yellow paper boards. 256 pp. Bruising and faint damp stain to spine foot, slight sunning to edges. Slightly age toned to interior. Dust jacket is age toned, light bumping to edges, damp stained to spine foot (mostly visible to reverse).