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Author’s debut novel. First US edition with a stated first edition. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Previous owner’s small label on front pastedown. Price still on dustjacket. “Jewel Cobb had come to Saint Bruno to dip his spoon into the fabled gravy train of the big city, and as he tucked the .32 Beretta into the waistband of his trousers, he just knew he was abo....
First UK edition. The book is in very good condition for its age. Bumped at head and tail of book spine. Slight damage to rear pastedown. Some age tanning to pages. Flaps of dustjacket ar slightly yellow rather than white, and there is a tiny piece missing at the top of the dustjacket spine. Price still on dustjacket. “When Simon was living in Africa he had been very ill and had had ....
First UK edition with a full 1 to 9 number sequence indicating a first printing. Tanning to pages. Price still on dustjacket. “A brutal serial killer stalks the Seattle nights. Regina Greenleaf was one of the victims. Her beautiful twin sister, Renata, is deeply traumatized. Renata barely knows she’s alive…” Part murder mystery, ghost story and psychological thril....
First UK edition. Rubbing to head and tail of book spine. Price still on dustjacket. An impressive mystery debut. “At the far end of Nikki’s precinct in Brooklyn lies a neglected area frequented mostly by sea gulls and lovers. It is here that the body of Frankie Sunmann, a small-time gambler is discovered. Sunmann was a failure. One of life’s losers. Why then did he ha....
Reprint with an 8-10 number sequence. Minor bump to base of book spine. Price still on dustjacket. Light age tanning to pages. “On the hottest day of the summer of 1935, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, ha....
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....