Parker Pyne Investigates de Agatha Christie - 1967

New York: Scribners, 2001 Limited edition: special fingerprint edition: Ring finger. approximately 20% of 2500 copies printed. Signed by John Dunning, with finger print. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

First edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with light edge wear, starting at title page, spine lightly pushed top and bottom and very slight bump top front corner, in Very Good dust jacket that is price clipped, edge and corner wear with couple spots of very slight loss, several small creases along edges, mild sun fade on spine and some over write incisions front cover that do not penetrate the mylar, a classic signed by Block on the title page.

328+[5 ad] pages with diagrams and fold out plan. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition with the first printing "A" on copyright page, second state with the dates 1929, 1930. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright… Leer más

U. S. A.: William Morrow. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060583304 . First edition/First printing. Signed on title page and on their respective story page by the following 9 authors: Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Peter Robinson, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mark Billingham, John Connolly, Denise Mina, Kelley Armstrong, and Laura Lippman. Book is in unread condition; however there is wear at the bottom (bump) and top of the spine. Dust jacket is Fine.

U. S. A.: Soho. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1616954558 . First edition/First printing. Signed in Japanese & dated ("2014-11-13") by author on title page. Book is in unread condition; however, there is a small tuck at the base of the spine. Dust jacket is Fine.

New York: Scribners, 2001 Limited edition: special fingerprint edition: Ring finger. approximately 20% of 2500 copies printed. Signed by John Dunning, with finger print. Book and dust jacket in fine condition.

First edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with light edge wear, starting at title page, spine lightly pushed top and bottom and very slight bump top front corner, in Very Good dust jacket that is price clipped, edge and corner wear with couple spots of very slight loss, several small creases along edges, mild sun fade on spine and some over write incisions front cover that do not penetrate the mylar, a classic signed by Block on the title page.

328+[5 ad] pages with diagrams and fold out plan. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition with the first printing "A" on copyright page, second state with the dates 1929, 1930. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright… Leer más

U. S. A.: William Morrow. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2004. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0060583304 . First edition/First printing. Signed on title page and on their respective story page by the following 9 authors: Karin Slaughter, Lee Child, Peter Robinson, Jerrilyn Farmer, Mark Billingham, John Connolly, Denise Mina, Kelley Armstrong, and Laura Lippman. Book is in unread condition; however there is wear at the bottom (bump) and top of the spine. Dust jacket is Fine.

U. S. A.: Soho. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2014. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 1616954558 . First edition/First printing. Signed in Japanese & dated ("2014-11-13") by author on title page. Book is in unread condition; however, there is a small tuck at the base of the spine. Dust jacket is Fine.