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  • SHOT WITH CRIMSON

  • Author: Nicola UPSON
  • Publisher: Faber & Faber
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Price still on dust jacket.  Read once very carefully.

    A Josephine Tey Mystery.

    SYNOPSIS:  “September 1939.  The worries of war follow Josephine Tey to Hollywood, where a different sort of battle is raging on the set of Hitchcock’s Rebecca.

    Then a shocking act of vi....

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  • DEATH BEFORE DINNER

  • Author: E C R LORAC
  • Publisher: Collins
  • Comments:

    This is an undated White Circle paperback edition.  The hardback was published in 1948.  In the US it was published as A Screen for Murder.   The book is a little fragile.   Heavy age tanning to pages making them very brown but still eminently readable.  At some point it looks like the bottom of the book has perhaps been wet as there is a faint water mark along the bottom of some of the ....

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  • THE BOOK OF GAHERIS (Signed Numbered Limited)

  • Author: Kari SPERRING
  • Publisher: NewCon Press
  • Comments:

    A first signed numbered limited edition hardback (50 copies only) with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.

    Book #14 of 50.  SIGNED by Kari Sperring on the limitation page.

    SYNOPSIS:  “No one remembers Gaheris when they talk about the Orkney clan, and he likes it that way. But then, without any intent on his part, that all changes. Against ....

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  • THE BOOK OF GAHERIS (Signed Numbered Limited)

  • Author: Kari SPERRING
  • Publisher: NewCon Press
  • Comments:

    A first signed numbered limited edition hardback (50 copies only) with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.

    Book #12 of 50.  SIGNED by Kari Sperring on the limitation page.

    SYNOPSIS:  “No one remembers Gaheris when they talk about the Orkney clan, and he likes it that way. But then, without any intent on his part, that all changes. Against ....

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  • A PRINCESS OF ROUMANIA

  • Author: Paul PARK
  • Publisher: TOR
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition paperback with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Unread.  Some age tanning to pages.  Light crease at bottom edge of front cover.

    SYNOPSIS:  “In an alternate 18th-century world, America teems with blond savages whilst “Roumania” and Germany battle for European domination.  A magic book concoted by conjuress Aegypta Schen....

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  • FINAL ACTS (Theatrical Mysteries)

  • Author: Martin EDWARDS (Editor)
  • Publisher: British Library
  • Comments:

    First UK edition B format paperback (130 mm x 198 mm).  Edited by crime fiction expert Martin Edwards who also wrote the introduction. The book has been read once very carefully.  The rear cover is actually a darker blue than it appears in the photo.

    SYNOPSIS:  “Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings.  The mysteries in th....

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  • DEATH ON THE DOWN BEAT

  • Author: Sebastian FARR
  • Publisher: British Library
  • Comments:

    This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1941 by J M Dent.  Read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:   “As a rousing Strauss piece is reaching its crescendo in Maningpool Civic Hall, the talented yet obnoxious conductor Sir Noel Grampian is shot dead in full view o....

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  • SUDDENLY AT HIS RESIDENCE

  • Author: Christianna BRAND
  • Publisher: British Library
  • Comments:

    This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1947 by The Bodley Head.   Published in the US as The Crooked Wreath.   Read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:   “While the Blitz bombards London, the boisterous grandchildren of Sir Richard March have descended upon Sw....

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  • FEAR STALKS THE VILLAGE

  • Author: Ethel Lina WHITE
  • Publisher: British Library
  • Comments:

    This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1932 by Ward Lock.  Read once very carefully.

    SYNOPSIS:   “Ambling along the lanes of a sleep village in the Downs, passing cosy Tudor cottages rustling with wisteria, a novelist imagines the sordid truth hidden behind ....

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  • MAKING MONEY

  • Author: Terry PRATCHETT
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Age tanning to pages.  The leading edges on the first 57 pages are not as heavily tanned as the rest of the leading edges.   The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price but is showing signs of wear.  Creasing to edges.

    A Discworld Novel.

    ....
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  • THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS

  • Author: Terry PRATCHETT
  • Publisher: Doubleday
  • Comments:

    A first UK edition hardback in very good condition for its age.  Bumped at head and tail of book spine.  Heavy age tanning to pages.  The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price but has some minor creasing along the top edge and also at the fold in of the flaps.  The dust jacket is actually darker blue than it appears in the photo.

    This is the first book for young readers s....

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  • TRACKLESS PATHS (Limited Edition)

  • Author: Benjamin TWEDDELL
  • Publisher: Egaeus Press
  • Comments:

    A limited edition hardback limited to 325 copies only.  Published without a dust jacket.  Unread.

    SYNOPSIS:  “A collection of unsettling, esoteric, melancholic tales.  Rarely are the realms of the unseen, the unknowable secrets of human life and death, so masterfully evoked than in Tweddell’s meticulous prose. Rarely do we find ourselves sharing the same deadly longings, ....

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