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Price: £45.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, George A. Morton: 1904
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2272
Condition: Good
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
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. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, L. C. Page: 1907
Edition: First American Edition
Seller ID: VN2627
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. View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86062
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. View more info
By: Harvey, Julian
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, John Long: 1896
Seller ID: VN0988
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. View more info
By: Hay, Mary Cecil
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Tyler: 1875
Edition: First One-Volume Edition
Seller ID: VN2998
Condition: Good
Mid C19th black leather over dark-grey beaded cloth-covered boards. Spine ends rubbed, with small chips at head, front inner joint paper cracked, fair/good. Domestic mystery/sensation novel in the school of M. E. Braddon and Mrs Henry Wood. View more info
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By: Heller, Frank [ie Martin Gunnar Serner]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, John Lane, The Bodley Head: 1924
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 94088
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. View more info
By: Hennessey, J. D. [John David Hennessey]
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1896
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 93120
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. View more info
By: Hill, Headon [ie Francis Edward Grainger]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1899
Seller ID: 84085
Condition: Very Good
Yellowback, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated [1899]. Frontispiece. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed blue cloth spine lettered in gilt. Light edgewear, very good. Topp [II, p.362]. Mystery thriller set on board the ship of the title. View more info
By: Hill, Headon [ie Francis Grainger]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1914
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87015
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 View more info
By: Hill, Headon [ie Francis Grainger]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Various: 1907
Seller ID: 87115
Condition: Very Good
By a Hair's-Breadth. A Romance of the Russian Terror (1897). Paperback: Cassell & Co., 1907. Bound with: The Duke Decides (1903). Paperback: Cassell & Co., 1906. Bound with: The Avengers (1906). Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., nd. Bound with: Millions of Mischief. The Story of a Great Secret (1905). Paperback: Ward, Lock & Co., nd. Four Edwardian paperbacks bound as one (without original wrappers) in beaded maroon binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Gilt lettering oxidised, stamps for Lynn Briggs Temperance Hotel, Louth, on front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Four crime and adventure... View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1916
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2329
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 View more info
By: Hopkins, Tighe
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Hurst & Blackett: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Inscribed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 92092
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. View more info
By: Hume, Fergus
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Richard Edward King: 1900
Seller ID: VN1226
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. View more info
By: Hume, Fergus
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Richard Edward King: 1900
Seller ID: 04084
Condition: Good
Undated reprint (c1900). Original grey green cloth, with blindstamped flower on front board, brush-stroke lettering in gilt. Gilt dulled, spine sunned, paper lightly browned, but still a tight clean copy, good. View more info
By: Hume, Fergus
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, John Long: 1900
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2862
Condition: Fair
Original illustrated red cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Rear board extensively damp-marked, short tears on ends of hinges, endpapers browned, fair only. A reading/working/binding copy only. View more info
By: Hume, Fergus
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, C. Arthur Pearson: 1910
Seller ID: 94039
Condition: Fair
Sixpenny Novels. Undated (c1910). Original card wrapper. Chipped along spine and on spine edge of rear cover, paper lightly tanned throughout, fair. Scarce. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Hansom Cab Publishing Company: 1887
Seller ID: 89027
Condition: Fair
One Hundred and Seventy-Fifth Thousand. Undated, c1887. Bound (without original wrappers) in simple (probably amateur) green cloth with double yellow endpapers; title hand-written on front board. Small chip to cloth at head of spine; title page and final leaf have tears to edges (text unaffected); staples rusted, thus only fair. Hume's first book and a runaway bestseller; issued as a paperback and rarely surviving in anything like good (or better) condition. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: Edinburgh & London, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier: 1895
Seller ID: 84093
Condition: Very Good
Pocket Edition. Original green cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt; brown-and-white patterned endpapers. Minimal scuffing, very good. Short crime novel, issued in a specific series from this publisher called "The Pocket Edition". View more info
By: Jackson, Wilfred Scarborough
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, John Lane: 1903
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04208
Condition: Good
Original grey cloth, illustrated (a train and a suitcase) in brown; lettered in gilt. Light discolouration to bottom of rear board, small circular stamp on front pastedown, good. Crime novel: listed in Hubin. The adventures of Richard Wayzgoose, a bank clerk who is inadvertently involved with a burglary. View more info
