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Price: £65.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1902
Seller ID: 91096
[Reprint]. "Profusely illustrated". Three volumes in early C20th maroon leather over crimson cloth, lettered in gilt on spines. Light scuffing, otherwise very good/near fine. True crime stories. Griffiths was an Inspector of H. M Prisons, and wrote about crime and criminals both in non-fictional and fiction forms. A very heavy set which will require additional charges for delivery by courier. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1915
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91043
Original blue cloth, lettered in black on front board, in gilt on spine. Spine lettering a trifle dulled, light scuffing, foxing spots, good. Philip John Davenant is a schoolboy detective, secret service agent and spy-catcher. "P. J. Davenant is one of the most glorious human boys we have ever come across. His role is to out-Sherlock Sherlock in the capture of German spies " (The Times). Listed in Hubin. View more info
By: Harvey, Julian
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, John Long: 1896
Seller ID: VN0988
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: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Tyler: 1875
Edition: First One-Volume Edition
Seller ID: 81073
Late C19th beaded blue-green binder's cloth, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Light scuffing, otherwise very good. Mystery-thriller. Who murdered Old Myddleton? Who will inherit his fortune? And who is the handsome stranger who asks a lot of questions..? View more info
By: Hay, Mary Cecil
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Tyler: 1877
Seller ID: 85112
First Thus. Recently rebound in black cloth with bold, large gilt lettering on spine; blue endpapers; all edges stained blue. A little light foxing, very good. Topp [II, p 173] incorrectly identifies this as the first edition. The novel (Hay's first) was originally published in three volumes as The Arrandel Motto by "Mark Hardcastle", by T. Cautley Newby in 1871. Hay revised the title spelling (and possibly the text) for this one volume edition of 1877. View more info
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Edinburgh, Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier: 1889
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89026
Original green cloth, lettered and illustrated in black; decorated endpapers with publisher's booklists. Spine ends scuffed, inner joint papers cracked, but tight: good. The half-title reads: Clues. Real Detective Stories. View more info
By: Hennessey, J. D. [John David Hennessey]
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co.: 1896
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04382
Undated first edition [1896]. Original olive brown cloth with wavy-line blocking on front board, lettered in gilt. Small scratch to front board, front free endpaper tipped in, good. A crime story, concerned with the death of Constant M'Watt, and set in Queensland. Hennessey was an Australian writer (although born in England). The Dis-Honourable was his first novel. View more info
By: Hill, Headon [ie Francis Edward Grainger]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1899
Seller ID: 84085
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
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
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 ox... View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, James Blackwood: 1865
Seller ID: 87074
Undated, reprint , c1865. Illustrated. Original dark green cloth, blocked in black and gilt; yellow endpapers. Corners scuffed, a few specks and spots on pages, a little shaken, good. A confession of many amazing crimes ("How we robbed the Great Western Railway", "How we robbed the Bank of England", "How we robbed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte"). Originally issued as a yellowback and included by Sadleir [3522] in his section on "Detection, Criminol... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward & Lock: 1860
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 91098
Mid C19th rebinding in brown binder's cloth. Boards lightly marked, lacks title label on spine, foxing spots throughout, fair/good. Criminal confessions: whether this is a genuine confession or (more likely) fiction; and whether Holt is Horsleydown (or vice versa) is unclear. Originally a yellowback: Topp lists it under Horsleydown (mis-spelled), and Sadleir under Holt. View more info
By: Hope, Andree [ie Annie Jane Harvey]
Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Wilsons & Milne: 1894
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87023
Original crimson cloth, lettered in gilt. Minimal scuffing, light foxing, very good/near fine. Two short novels: The Secret of Wardale Court & Princess Ariane -- and two shorter pieces: Beneath the Dark Shadow & Lady Loraine. Mystery, secrets, murder, vendetta, execution... Hope/Harvey was also the author of Vyvyans: or, The Murder in the Rue Bellechassse (1893). View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company: 1916
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2329
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
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
"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
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: £25.00
Publisher: London, Digby, Long & Co.: 1904
Edition: 2nd Edition
Seller ID: VN2456
Times Book Club binding in green cloth, lettered in black. Corners rubbed, spine ends chipped, boards sunned, foxing, signature (1906) on prelims; fair. A reading copy of a scarce Hume title. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Hansom Cab Publishing Company: 1887
Seller ID: 89027
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
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
