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Three Thousand Dollars

By: Green, Anna Katharine

Price: £7.50

Publisher: Boston (Mass), Richard G. B adger, The Goreham Press: 1910

Seller ID: VN1251

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Illustrated. Original fine-ribbed grey cloth, lettered and decorated in yellow and orange. Spine dulled, small brown stain on bottom corners of all pages (text unaffected), damp mark on lower corner of rear board. A good reading copy of this mystery/crime novel.
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The Rome Express (1907)

By: Griffiths, Arthur

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, L. C. Page: 1907

Seller ID: VN2627

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed cream cloth, lettered and illustrated in red, black and white. Lacks frontispiece. Corners scuffed/rubbed, some light marks on text, inner joint papers lightly cracked (joints tight), good only.
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Criminals I Have Known (1895)

By: Griffiths, Major Arthur

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1895

Seller ID: 86062

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Illustrated. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; publisher's brown-and-white monogrammed endpapers. Spine sunned and rubbed at foot, a few marks on cloth, light foxing, armorial bookplate of John Rashleigh on front pastedown, good. Sixty-two stories and sketches of criminals and crime.
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Tales of a Government Official (1902)

By: Griffiths, Major Arthur

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1902

Seller ID: 95087

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original orange cloth, framed and lettered in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Lightly scuffed, owner's signature (1905) at head of front board and (1907) on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Griffiths was H. M. Inspector of Prisons from 1878 to 1896, and had a lifelong interest in crime and criminology. The stories in this volume are based on his own experiences: "Moving episodes in town and country; gaol outbreaks, affrays, assaults; escapes that have succeeded or failed; sentences borne by the wrong people; great frauds that failed; wild schemes of vengeance for wron...
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A Modern Siren (1896)

By: Harvey, Julian

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, John Long: 1896

Seller ID: VN0988

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered in gilt; green patterned endpapers. Spine tips rubbed, W. H. Smith's Subscription Library plate on front pastedown, inner joint paper chipped (but joints tight) good. A late sensation novel dealing with adultery.
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Princess Mazaroff

By: Hatton, Joseph

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1892

Seller ID: VN3534

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Fifth Edition. Original blue cloth with speckled patterning on boards, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, very good.
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The Perilous Transactions of Mr Collin translated [from the Swedish] by Pauline de Chary (1924) [Herr Collins affrer i London, 1914]

By: Heller, Frank [ie Martin Gunnar Serner]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, John Lane, The Bodley Head: 1924

Seller ID: 94088

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blindstamped red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, endpapers tanned, very good. Early Swedish crime fiction: the eponymous Mr [Philip] Collin is both a criminal and a detective.
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The Dis-Honourable (1896)

By: Hennessey, J. D. [John David Hennessey]

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1896

Seller ID: 93120

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first edition [1896]. Original olive brown cloth with wavy-line blocking on front board, lettered in gilt. Small scratch to front board, good. Crime novel, listed in Hubin. Hennessey was an Australian writer (although born in England), and the novel -- the author's first -- is set in Queensland.
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Sir Vincent's Patient (1914)

By: Hill, Headon [ie Francis Grainger]

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1914

Seller ID: 87015

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Original blindstamped black cloth with repeated pattern of small red rectangles on front board and spine. Lightly scuffed, some foxing spots, very good. 36.00
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The Strange Cases of Mason Brant (1916)

By: Hopkins, Nevill Monroe

Price: £35.00

Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1916

Seller ID: VN2329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Four illustrations in colour. Variant binding: original red cloth lettered in white (other copies have white lines on front board and a gun in white on the spine). Spine sunned, some light foxing, very good. Three detective stories: the first set in London, the second two in America. Uncommon
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The Silent Gate: A Voyage into Prisons (1900)

By: Hopkins, Tighe

Price: £45.00

Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1900

Seller ID: 92092

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Title page printed in red and black. Original pale green cloth, illustrated (prison warder and door) in black, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, a little faint foxing, very good. Inscription on front free endpaper reads: Mrs Leaf with the sincere regards of Tighe Hopkins, September 1 1900. Eleven stories of imprisonment, prisoners, criminals and their families.
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The Fever of Life

By: Hume, Fergus

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, Richard Edward King: 1900

Seller ID: VN1226

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

"New Edition". Undated reprint, c1900. Original grey green cloth, with impressed art-nouveau flower design on front board. Both board edges damp-marked, paper lightly browned throughout, bookplate on front pastedown. A reading copy of a scarce title.
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The Wandering Romanoff (1898)

By: Kennedy, Bart

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898

Seller ID: 04415

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Title page printed in red and black. Original fine-ribbed black cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine faintly sunned, light foxing, very good. Kennedy's second novel, a melodrama set in the Alaskan goldfields, involving Russian nihilists and the illegitimate son of Tsar Alexander II
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Captain Shannon (1897)

By: Kernahan, [John] Coulson

Price: £20.00

Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1897

Seller ID: 03678

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original black cloth with title in red. Endpapers browned, inner joint papers lightly cracked (but joints tight), light brown stain on bottom inner corners (text not affected), foxing spots, good. A crime-thriller. The hero tracks down "Captain Shannon", a murderer and terrorist.
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Passion's Slave (1889)

By: King, Richard Ashe [aka "BASIL"]

Price: £40.00

Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1890

Seller ID: 96058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Late C19th rebinding in black leather over black glazed cloth; raised bands, gilt decorations and red leather title label on spine; green endpapers. A few light marks, near fine. The Rev. Ashe King was Irish, and a Churchman: he produced Irish novels (as "Basil") and sensational romances. His last novel seems to have been published in 1892, although he lived until 1932. Passion's Slave is a sensational romance involving seduction and suicide.
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The Lady in the Car in Which the Amours of a Mysterious Motorist Are Related (1908)

By: Le Queux, William

Price: £25.00

Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1908

Seller ID: 04240

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned with small chips to cloth head and foot; endpapers tipped in, lacks half-title; undated signature on front pastedown: thus fair only. A reading copy of a scarce Le Queux title: "I hereby tender an apology to the reader for being compelled, in these curious chronicles of an adventurous motorist and his actions towards certain of his female acquaintances, to omit real names, and to substitute assumed ones. With the law of libel looming darkly, the reason is obvious".
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The Luck of the Secret Service Being the Startling Adventures of CLAUD HEATHWAITE, C. B., of His Britannic Majesty's Foreign Office, related by himself and edited by William Le Queux (1921)

By: Le Queux, William

Price: £35.00

Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1921

Seller ID: 94037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Original blindstamped red cloth, lettered in black on spine. Last page (an advertisement for Pelmanism) used as rear pastedown. Lightly scuffed on edges, small chip at foot of spine, paper tanned on page edges, good. The book has the appearance of a pocket edition or cheap reprint, but states "First published in book form 1921" on verso of title page and matches the physical description of the copy held at the British Library.
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Cheri-Bibi and Cecily (1923)

By: Leroux, Gaston

Price: £16.00

Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1923

Seller ID: 01498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Undated first [1923]. Original red cloth, blocked in black. Corners rubbed, foxing spots throughout, good.
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The Uttermost Farthing (1908)

By: Lowndes, Mrs [Marie] Belloc

Price: £30.00

Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1908

Seller ID: 86058

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

"Heinemann's Shorter Novels Series". Original patterned green cloth, with gilt decorative panel on front board and on spine. Minimal scuffing, light foxing, very good. A married woman and her lover elope: on their train journey death unexpectedly intervenes.
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Eugene Aram (1832)

By: Lytton, Lord [Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton]

Price: £12.00

Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1895

Seller ID: VN1097

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

[Florin Novels]. Original fine-ribbed maroon cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine; publisher's own monogrammed endpapers. Lightly scuffed, foxing, inscriptions and bookplates on prelims, good.
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