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Published by Pocket Books, New York, NY, 1950
Seller: Orpheus Books, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pocket Books No.742, first printing with sensational cover art by Warren Baumgartner; this copy is VG with vertical cover crease, running the length of the book and moderate rubbing on one spine edge, contents very bright and unmarked.
Published by Diogenes Verlag, 2000
ISBN 10: 3257231334ISBN 13: 9783257231335
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Book
Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
ISBN 10: 3257228619ISBN 13: 9783257228618
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Book
Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
Published by Diogenes Verlag, 1999
ISBN 10: 325723113XISBN 13: 9783257231137
Seller: medimops, Berlin, Germany
Book
Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.
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Published by Harper & Row, New York, 1966
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In the final Nigel Strangeways novel, Nigel is at a campus in Boston and asked by the local police to assist in a murder investigation. Spine ends bumped with rubbing at the tips. Jacket lcrimped with a touch of wear at the edges, laminate wrinkled on the front, in Brodart.
Published by Pan, London, 1971
ISBN 10: 033002633XISBN 13: 9780330026338
Seller: Klanhorn, Queanbeyan, NSW, Australia
Book
Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Pan Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, mild spine lean, small stain on front cover, browning. Psychological crime drama. Photo on request.
Published by The Thriller Book Club, London, 1968
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Hardback. Book Club Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Interior uniformly age-toned. 223 pages. A murder mystery set in 1930s Ireland. The author was the Poet Laureate from 1968 - 1972. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Published by Harper, NY, 1957
Seller: MURDER BY THE BOOK, Warwick, RI, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 1st edition, so stated. . Near fine copy in dust jacket, tape ghosts to flaps, not price clipped, $2.50 intact, very light wear at extremeties. Nigel Strangeways was employed to investigate a minor mystery in the offices of the publishing house of Wenham and Geraldine. Someone had maliciously tinkered with the proofs of an autobiography in which a retired and outspoken General had savagely attacked one of his colleagues. Consequently the firm was threatened with a disastrous libel suit. Strangeways had not made much headway before somebody's throat was cut on the actual premises of that discreet and reputable firm. Book.
Published by Published for The Crime Club By
Seller: Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.
Published by Collins for the Crime Club, 1949
Seller: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pages tanned, small gift inscription on front endpaper, else internally in good condition; cover has some fading and tanning, a few bumps, some shelfwear and rubbing, in particular the backstrip extremities, and a few splash marks. No wrapper.
Stockholm; Norstedts, 1937. Originalets titel: Thou Shell of Death (London, 1936). 19,5x13,5 cm. 305, (1) s. Samtida blått halvfranskt band med förgylld ryggtitel, upphöjda bind och marmorerade pärmpapper. Främre omslag medbundet. Omslag av Jurgen von Konow. Med deckarexperten Jan Brobergs namnteckning och exlibris, samt med en annan namnteckning på halvtitelbladet. Främre omslaget är något hårt beskuret i nedre marginalen. Fint ex. Första svenska utgåvan. Contemporary blue half leather, with gilt title and raised bands on spine. Front wrapper is preserved, but a bit too trimmed. A fine copy. With an unknown signature on the half-title, and with Jan Broberg's bookplate and signature. Broberg (1932-2012) was one of the leading Swedish experts on crime fiction. First Swedish edition of Thou Shell of Death.
Published by Collins Crime Club, 1968
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Crime novel set in Ireland in the 1930s. VG in Good- price clipped jacket which has some soiling, is slightly marked to edges/age toned and has some closed tears.
Published by Collins Fontana Books, 1958
Seller: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages tanning and cover a little shelfworn, still a good, tight copy.
Published by Collins Fontana Books, 1956
Seller: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good-. Some page tanning, previous owner's initials on half-title page, else internally a good, sound copy; cover has some wear and rubbing, back cover has a corner crease.
1st Penguin edition, and the first of Nicholas Blake's detective novels published under the Penguin imprint. "The finding of the body is a masterly scene of the macabre. Incidents, recalled one by one, are assembled into the story of a twisted life calculated to make anyone wince." (T.L.S. review). Pp.220/4(publisher's catalogue), pages toned. Paperback, a little dusty with toning to spine, small tear to top of spine and wear to spine edge. G+.
Published by Collins Crime Club, 1968
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
Crime novel set in Ireland in the 1930s. VG in Good price clipped jacket which slightly marked to edges/age toned and has some closed tears.
Published by Collins Crime Club, London, 1963
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A couple settles in a small town, home to a practical joker. The pranks escalate until someone dies. Gently bumped with short tears to the spine head, spine just slightly darkened. Binding square and solid.
Published by Harper & Brothers, NEW YORK, 1957
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jim Murphy (jacket) (illustrator). First Edition Stated. Refurbished former private lending library copy with clean new front endpapers and NO library markings. Author's small photo pasted in rear pastedown. Covered in a lightly worn, unchipped jacket with $2.95 price. Terrific copy of a Nigel Strangeways mystery.
Published by Popular Library, New York, 1945
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Small octavo, cover art by Hoffman, pictorial wrappers. First paperback edition. Popular Library #60. A Nigel Strangeways mystery. Mild edge crease, a nearly fine copy. (#127168).
Published by Collins for The Crime Club, 1940
Seller: Nigel Smith Books, Gunnislake, United Kingdom
Book
Paperback. Condition: Good-. Mild page tanning and some foxing to endpapers and page edges, else internally in very good condition; cover is foxed with light wear, and a very small amount of loss to spine extremities.
Published by Diogenes Verlag, 1997
ISBN 10: 3257229313ISBN 13: 9783257229318
Seller: Gerald Wollermann, Bad Vilbel, Germany
Book
Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. 0 Innerhalb Deutschlands Versand je nach Größe/Gewicht als Großbrief bzw. Bücher- und Warensendung mit der Post oder per DHL. Rechnung mit MwSt.-Ausweis liegt jeder Lieferung bei. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 272.
Published by The Crime Club / Collins, E-370, 1957
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1957. 191 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Nigel Strangeways was employed to investigate a minor mystery in the offices of the publishing house of Wenham and Geraldine. Someone had maliciously tinkered with the proofs of an autobiography in which a retired and outspoken General had savagely attacked one of his colleagues. Consequently the firm was threatened with a disastrous libel suit. Strangeways had not made much headway before somebody's throat was cut on the actual premises of that discreet and reputable firm. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages.
Published by Collins (The Crime Club), London, 1960
Seller: CURIO, Grimsby, N. E. Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 256pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (23/3).
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Cecil Day- Lewis was poet laureate who wrote mysteries under the name of Nicholas Blake. US title was "Death and Daisy Bland". "A chance meeting in a London street in the 1950s. and fate is sealed for carefree cat burglar Hugo Chesterman and Daisy Bland, the girl eager to become his mistress. When a police offer is murdered in Brighton, though, neither is prepared for the suspicion that falls upon them." CONDITION Blck bds (clean and unworn) pp 254. Copy is bright and crisp, inscription inside front and light dust spotting to ends and edges. DJ has loss botttom front though missing pieces laid in. a bit chipped to spine ends and small chip top rear, not price clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Published by Collins, London, 1980
ISBN 10: 0002315971ISBN 13: 9780002315975
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. First Edition. One of the twelve Jubilee Reprints published to celebrate the Crime Club's Golden Jubilee. Originally published in 1947. Selected and introduced by Julian Symons. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. A mystery featuring Nigel Strangeways. ; Octavo.
Published by London; Collins, The Crime Club, 1980., 1980
ISBN 10: 0002315971ISBN 13: 9780002315975
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hard Cover. FIRST THUS. Octavo, pp. 234. Publishers' dark green leatherette with gilt titles to spine and Crime Club roundel in gilt to upper board, in unclipped gold pictorial dust-jacket. Tips of lower corners bruised otherwise a clean tight copy, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little toned to edge (mainly to reverse) with minor stain at top of front fold. A Near Fine copy in very good jacket. One of twelve Jubilee Reprints specially selected and introduced by Julian Symons to mark the Crime Club's Golden Jubilee, and chosen from titles which appeared under the Crime Club imprint during the years 1930-55 which were out of print at the time of selection. Detective novel featuring Strangeways of Scotland Yard, originally published in 1947; to supplement his literary income, poet Cecil Day Lewis (1904-72) wrote 20 detective fiction novels under the pseudonym of Nicholas Blake, though at time of first publication this identity was publicly unknown.
Cloth. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A lovely first edition thriller mystery novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, one of this exciting Nigel Strangeways detective novels. The first edition of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper.'The Private Wound' is a thrilling mystery novel, following the murder of a free-spirited young woman in Ireland. One of four stand-alone Nigel Strangeways novels.By Cecil Day-Lewis under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. Day-Lewis was an influential figure of the twentieth century, the Poet Laureate from 1968 until 1972, and working for the Ministry of Information during World War II. He is also the father of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, with just a couple of very light marks to the boards. Dustwrapper is lightly discoloured with very light edge wear. Minor marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.
Published by Collins Crime Club, London, 1968
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Association Member: IOBA
First Edition
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. pp. 223. A fine copy sans dustwrapper.(Hubin. pp36), KEATING 100 Best # 68. Silver Dagger runner up. One of Cecil Day Lewis's [writing as Blake] four non 'Nigel Strangeways' mysteries. Lewis the Poet Laureate superlative forays into the Mystery & Detective genre. He was an academic, critic, translator & literary figure & father to actor Daniel Day Lewis.
Published by Collins Crime Club, London, 1961
Seller: SAVERY BOOKS, Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good. EX-BOOTS LIBRARY BOOK. Hardback. 19x12cm. 256 pages. Front board has the remnants of a Boots Green Shield label. NO OTHER LIBRARY MARKS. Clean & tight book. Front paste-down has a written name. No other inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with TRACKING next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard ref zx-mrp.
Published by Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, London First Edition . 1935., 1935
Seller: Little Stour Books PBFA Member, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Association Member: PBFA
First Edition
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pale green finely grained cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, publisher's device to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains (xvi), 156 printed pages of text. Off-setting to the second end papers where dust wrapper flaps where folded-in. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper marginal line across the bottom edge and front fore edge, slight age darkening down the spine, without any chips or tears. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.