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A book in the Penguin Classics Series. Light age tanning to pages. “Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of the Joad family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering, Steinbeck created a dram....
The book is in very good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Age tanning to pages. Unpriced dustjacket. Published by Hutchinson of Australia. “With naval action at its most authentic, A ship Must Die, is set in the rolling wastes of the southern oceans; with strongly drawn characters, magnificently described backgrounds and stirring scenes of naval battles. ....
Age tanning to pages. Price still on dustjacket. First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. A Ben Abbott Mystery. “The Fisks’ weekend party, a ‘sleepover’ for select couples, remains the talk of the town long after Reg Hopkins’s body turns up in an insolated cogered bridge. For Reg may have paid the party a fleeting visit ....
Book club edition. Tanning to pages making them quite brown. Fading to dustjacket spine. “AFSIC Kampfental was a very special military establishment tucked away in a corner of the Bavarian Alps. In 1944, with every German front collapsing, the Armed Forces Special Instruction Centre was allegedly still training men for ‘the last decisive battle of the war’. AFSIC Kampfenta....
First edition with a stated first world edition. Price still on dustjacket. Pictorial boards. This is NOT an ex-library book. “The story of a trip up the Nile taken by Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert told through the eyes of their dragoman (guide).” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DESPATCH
First American edition with a stated first edition. Rough cut leading edges, very common in American books. The book is in good condition for its age. The book is generally grubby (especially the rear panel of the dustjacket). The pages are tanned. The dustjacket is basically complete with just a few nicks missing at the edges but it is scuffed. Price still on dustjacket. Bumped at head a....
Price still on dustjacket. Age tanning to pages making them quite brown, especially at the edges. Pictorial boards. First edition with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing. A fourth novel to feature Detective Superintendent Macrae and Detective Sergeant Silver. “A case takes a terrifying turn when a battered body is found in a flat.” IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DE....
First UK edition which is in very good condition for its age. Unpriced dustjacket. The pages are heavily tanned making them very brown. Previous owner’s name and March 1983 written on ffep. The front board is slightly faded across the top edge. The third Matthew Hope novel. “Topless bathing was allowed on Sabal Beach, but if any other form of intimate exposure occurred for the....
First UK edition with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing. Age tanning to pages. Price still on dustjacket. “Jail doesn’t agree with Tony Curbel. That’s not surprising: he used to be a proper businessman, a currency trader. it also happens that he’s innocent of any crime. Worse still, Tony was framed, and he suspects that his father is respon....
First UK edition. A Collins Crime Club book. The book is in very nice condition. Price still on dustjacket. “They couldn’t have been more different. Ann Koppleman was an attractive, wealthy widow who lived alone in her beautiful Californian home high on a hillside above the Pacific. Eugenie – just Eugenie – was a bag lady who slept rough and snatched a night’....
First UK edition. Price still on dustjacket. Inside flaps discoloured (yellow rather than white). Author’s first novel. “Rich and beautiful, living in the great TwelveOaks mansion, the Andover sisters seemed to possess all that anyone could hope for. Yet one has been murdred and the other, an invalid, is possibly the murderer. When young Alexandra Townsend arrives at TwelveOak....
First edition trade (large sized) paperback. (The book was first published as a hardback by Arcane Wisdom). “The Great Wyrm Ouroboros – the ceaseless cycle of destruction and renewal. In a small coastal town, an ancient force stirs, drawn by the cumulative power of life and death, grief and sorrow, and, ultimately, endless love. Ouroboros – life out of death. Tom Christiansen....