Resultados de búsqueda: Crime from Foster Books - Stephen Foster, ABA, ILAB, PBFA

London: The Crime Club by Collins 1957. Small 8vo. First Edition. 256 pp. Recently bound half terracotta morroco with raised bands and gilt lettering to spine. Occasional minor spots and marks to leaves. . Near Fine. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1956.

London: The Crime Club - Collins 1971. 8vo. 254 pp., Hardcover with pictorial jacket. Minor wear and faint mark to the jacket spine. Boards fresh and internally clean with minor mark to the top edge. 0002310090 . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. 1971.

London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd. N.d. [1927]. 8vo. 318 pp. Pictorial dark blue cloth with light blue lettering. Spine & board edges faded. Boards slightly marked and wear to the spine ends. Early ink owner's name to front endpaper. Binding firm. With stories especially written for this volume by J. M. Barrie, W. Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Machen and other well-known names. . Good. Cloth. Second Edition. 1927.

London: Hutchinson & Co., Ltd. N.d. [1927]. 8vo. 318 pp. Decorated dark blue cloth with light blue lettering. Spine faded but lettering mostly legible. Boards slightly marked. Tattered remains of original dust wrapper loosely laid in. Binding firm. With stories especially written for this volume by J. M. Barrie, W. Somerset Maugham, D. H. Lawrence, Arthur Machen and other well-known names. VG . Very Good. Cloth. Second Edition. 1927.

London: Hamish Hamilton 1965. Small 8vo. First UK Edition. 157 pp. Blue boards with gilt lettering on spine under illustrated blue jacket, not price clipped, designed by Youngman Carter. Jacket marked, chipped at spine, with some loss to rear panel. Otherwise near fine inside and out. . Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition in English. 1965.

London: John Murray 1929. 8vo. First cheaper edition. 320 pp. Blind-stamped blue cloth in pictorial dw. Price printed on dw at 2/- with cover illustration by J. Abbey. Dw edgeworn & chipped and spine darkened. Pages browned due to poor paper quality. No names or other markings. Publisher's 'Fiction Library' list on rear dw panel and flyleaves. Good/Good . Good. Cloth. 1929.

London: Pan Books Ltd 1959. Small 8vo. Fourth Printing. 158, [2] pp. Colour illustrated paperback; classic Pan pulpy cover. Slight wear to joints with minor loss to corner of front board. Yellowed, slightly scratched and spotted boards. Pages yellowed, with occasional minor spots (especially at endpapers). The first James Bond novel. . Very Good. Paperback. 4th Printing. 1961.

London: The Folio Society c. 2003. 8vo. xv, 296 pp., Brown publisher's cloth in slipcase. Still shrinkwrapped, with minor mark to the head of the spine as printed. . As New. Publisher's Cloth. 2003.

London: Griffin, Bohn, and Company 1862. Small 4to. First Edition. xii, 634 pp. Recent half brown speckled calf over marbled boards, with raised bands, maroon title label, gilt-stamped devices and lettering to spine. In fine condition externally, as new - one or two spots to prelims but generally internally clean. A few tears that have been repaired within, and it is an ex-library copy, so a few faint traces of stamps here or there. Fold-out frontispiece print. Numerous in-text and full-page illustrations, depicting prisons, prisoners, London, etc. Lots of facts and figures as well. Volume Three in Mayhew's 'Great Metropolis' set, but complete in itself. A very interesting book. . Very Good. Half Calf. First Edition. 1862.

London: Chapman & Hall, Ld. 1895. 8vo. vii, 306 pp. Half green morocco over light green boards with raised bands, gilt-stamped borders, devices and lettering to spine; marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Minimal rubbing in a few places on the spine and corners; slight slant to binding. A little yellowing to page edges, a few minor spots, but otherwise generally clean. Eight black & white illustrations by G. Gulich. Sensationalist stories of crimes, prison breaks and law-breaking from a major Victorian prison administrator. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1895.

London: The Crime Club by Collins 1949. Small 8vo. First Edition. 192 pp. Recently bound red morroco with gilt lettering and raised bands to the spine. Occasional minor spots and some scratching to the outer edge of leaves. . Near Fine. 1/4 Morocco. First Edition. 1956.

London: The Crime Club by Collins 1956. Small 8vo. First Edition. 256 pp. Recently bound half terracotta morroco with gilt lettering and raised bands to the spine. Top edge gilt. With Occasional minor spots, otherise in near fine condition. . Near Fine. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1956.

London: Michael Joseph 1969. 8vo. 224 pp., First edition. Hardcover with pictorial jacket. Some creasing to the edges of the jacket. Internally clean with slight lean to the spine. 0718104315 . Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1969.

London: Jonathan Cape 1967. 8vo. First edition. 254 pp. Hardback in dust wrapper. Jacket spine faded with short tear to top edge of front panel. Lean to spine. Jacket not price-clipped. With the 'Top Secret In Transit Docket' wallet laid in. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1967.

London: John Murray 1962. Small 8vo. x, 313 pp. Hardcover in illustrated jacket (not price clipped). Light rubbing and selotape marks to jacket. Slight rubbing to book's spine. Internally clean. From the flap: 'a collection of entirely new Sherlock Holmes stories written by the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and that master of detective fiction John Dickson Carr'. . Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 1962.

London: Michael Joseph 1965. 16mo. 225 pp., Green, half morocco binding with blue marbled boards, gilt decorated spine and red title label. Internally clean with slight darkening to the leaves. A former full time jump jockey and winner of over 350 races, Dick Francis went on to a successful literary career with many of his novels focusing on crime in the world of horse racing. . Near Fine. Half Morocco. First Edition. 1965.

London: The Tallis Press 1905. 8vo. First edition. 224, (1) pp. Publisher's yellow / orange cloth with black lettering. Stamped in black on the front cover is the enticing offer to the reader: "£500 Reward. A Remarkable Offer is made in connection with this Novel. ...The Publishers invite the reader to solve this mystery and offer Prizes to the value of £500 (First Prize £250) to the readers who will furnish on the form provided the explanation of Sir Philip Ramon's death." A few light marks to boards. Foxing to prelims & fore-edge and endpapers browned. Early ink name to half-title. Frontis with folding illustration of 44 Downing Street. With the solution competition leaf still intact at rear. Cloth bright and fresh. VG . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1905.

London: John Murray 1917. 8vo. 305, (2) pp. Red cloth. First edition. Cloth is worn and spotted. Spine is faded with wear to head & foot, but spine lettering is quite legible. Front and rear hinges split. Dampstaining to front & rear paste-downs and ffep. Early ink inscription dated 'Xmas 1917.' Two leaves torn at rear from publisher's catalogue. In Fair to Good condition. . Fair. Cloth. First Edition. 1917.

London: Robert Hale 1996. 8vo. 285 pp. Author's second novel. 0709056729 . Very Good. Hard Cover. First Edition. 1996.

New York: Permabooks / Pocket Books, Inc. 1962. 12mo. 181, (1) pp. Original pictorial wrappers. Minor wear to covers. Ink notation & stamp to front endpaper. Leaves age-darkened. Binding firm. . Good. Wraps. 1962.