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Price: £12.00
Publisher: Glasgow, Cameron & Ferguson: 1900
Seller ID: 00717
Undated reprint, c1900. Late C19th mauve cloth over mauve/black mottled boards. No title appears on board or spine. Paper faintly browned and foxed/spotted throughout. A reading/working copy of this American novel, uncommon in a British edition; from an unusual Scottish publisher. View more info
By: Dowling, Richard
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Swan, Sonnenschein & Co.: 1887
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91002
Recently rebound in dark green cloth, lettered in gilt. Clean, bright, now very good. Topp [IX, p.106]. Originally issued as a yellowback. A very scarce collection of grim stories, focussing on those who have deserved hanging for their crimes, but somehow escaped justice. View more info
By: Dowling, Richard
Price: £150.00
Publisher: London, Tinsley Brothers: 1881
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91095
Two numbers bound (without original wrappers) in late C19th grey-green cloth, lettered in gilt; yellow endpapers. A few light marks, very good. Two short crime/mystery novels. Scarce. View more info
By: Dowling, Richard
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Ward & Downey: 1892
Edition: First One-Volume Edition
Seller ID: 92021
New Edition. Original red cloth with raised design: alternating squares of flowers and blanks; grey-and-white patterned endpapers. Lightly scuffed, signature of front free endpaper, very good. Scarce. Crime story originally serialised in Cassell's Saturday Journal, and then published as a three-decker in 1891. This is the first single volume edition. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Stanley Paul & Co.: 1920
Seller ID: 01697
Reprint: The International Library, no date (c1920). Frontispiece. Original blindstamped navy blue cloth, decorated in gilt on spine. A crisp, bright copy, very good. View more info
By: Eldridge, G. D [George Dyre Eldridge]
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1907
Edition: First English Edition
Seller ID: 03726
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. A few spots on front board, trace of plate on front pastedown, very good. A crime novel set in the New England state of Maine. The original sub-title had, indeed, been A Maine Mystery of To-day. View more info
By: Farjeon, B. L. [Benjamin Leopold Farjeon]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92041
Original dark green cloth with red panel on front board, lettered in gilt. A few light marks, scuffed with a couple of small nicks on spine ends, light foxing, signature (1902) on front free endpaper, very good. View more info
By: Farjeon, B. L. [Benjamin Leopold Farjeon]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1899
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: 92045
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine a little scuffed, endpapers browned, gift inscription (1906) on front free endpaper, very good. View more info
By: Farmer, Lucy
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1891
Seller ID: VN2692
Idle Hour Series. Undated, c1891. Frontispiece. Dark grey cloth spine lettered in gilt, with blue title label; dark green and gilt boards with blindstamped designs; grey and white patterned endpapers. Extremities scuffed, edges of spine label chipped, child's doodling (with spirograph) on 3 prelims. Doodles apart, a good copy of this collection of twelve crime/mystery stories originally published in Cassell's Family Magazine. The narrator/heroine is (at least initially... View more info
By: Fendall, Percy & Fox Russell
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Co.: 1897
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2851
Original fine-ribbed royal blue cloth, lettered in gilt, with small blindstamped art-nouveau design around title on front board, black endpapers. Lightly scuffed, very good. The story of a femme fatale and forbidden passions: when Sir Eustace Bevan QC falls seriously ill, he needs the loving care of his beautiful wife Angela. Unfortunately she is less than pleased as she has recently acquired a hot-blooded Spanish lover, Gonzalo.... View more info
By: Fletcher, J. S. [Joseph Smith Fletcher]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1912
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 88109
Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine a little sunned and gilt lettering dulled/oxidised, undated signature on front free endpaper, good. One of Fletcher's early crime novels. View more info
By: Gaboriau, Emile
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.: 1910
Seller ID: 03518
Undated English edition (c1910), printed in the U. S. A. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt. A few light marks on cloth, corners bumped, light foxing, very good. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1932
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2596
Original blue cloth, lettered in black. Lightly scuffed, light foxing on prelims, good++ View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, George A. Morton: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2272
Original pink cloth, lettered in dark red (gilt on spine); dark red endpapers. Spine rubbed on tipped and sunned to brown, some sunning and marking on boards, corners lightly rubbed, undated inscription on verso of front free endpaper, good. Scarce and obscure novel with elements of crime and mystery. The narrator hero rescues the mysterious Ombra from a suicide attempt: she influences his life as the action moves to Edinburgh and later Venice and an unexpected end.... View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Boston (Mass), Richard G. B adger, The Goreham Press: 1910
Seller ID: VN1251
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. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1890
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: VN1819
Late C20th rebinding in navy blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine, A few faint marks, bookplate on front pastedown, very good. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, L. C. Page: 1907
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: VN2627
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. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86062
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. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89038
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... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1902
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89120
Original orange cloth, framed and lettered in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Board edges speckled, small holed on spine, bookplate on front board: fair to 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; sente... View more info
