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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: Hornung, E. W. [Ernest William Hornung]
Price: £8.00
Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons: 1907
Seller ID: VN0483
Reprint. Original fine-ribbed crimson cloth. Chipped at head of spine. Spine sunned with lettering oxidised. A collection of short stories 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: £40.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne: 1898
Seller ID: 86019
Yellowback. Undated [1898]. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Corners worn on free corners, hinges lightly rubbed, otherwise very good. Topp [IV, p. 238]. The publisher's catalogue contains new titles issued in 1898. The novel was previously issued in a similar binding, but as a paperback. 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
By: Jackson, Wilfred Scarborough
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, John Lane: 1903
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04208
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
By: Kennedy, Bart
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 79046
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 View more info
By: Kent, Edward
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Leadenhall Press: 1899
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86030
Unattributed silhouette illustrations. Original pale blue cloth, lettered and decorated in black on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine yellowed, front inner joint paper just starting to crack, good. The heroine is imprisoned in an attempt to force her into an illegal marriage. Listed in Hubin. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1897
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03678
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. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1900
Edition: 3rd Edition
Seller ID: 84057
Yellowback, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated [1900]. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Light rubbing to edges, spine faintly sunned, undated signature on front free endpaper, very good. Todd [II, p.368] lists second edition of 1897 and notes "also 1900". A detective novel in which the criminal is apparently the eponymous Irish terrorist. Setting: Canvey Island in Essex. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1900
Edition: 3rd Edition
Seller ID: VN1912
Yellowback, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated [1900]. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Light rubbing to edges, spine darkened, endpapers, tanned, good. Todd [II, p.368] lists second edition of 1897 and notes "also 1900". A detective novel in which the criminal is apparently the eponymous Irish terrorist. Setting: Canvey Island in Essex. View more info
Price: £7.50
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1913
Seller ID: VN1230
Reprint. Original blue cloth with impressed design (radiating rays) on front board, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, a little foxing, lacks rear free endpaper, good reading copy View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 80068
Frontispiece. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Small chip at foot of spine, and corner at head of spine, light foxing, good. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1896
Edition: First Thus
Seller ID: VN1618
Frontispiece. Original dark green cloth, lettered and decorated in red and black (gilt lettering on spine); black endpapers. Front board damp-marked along right side with some roughness along edge; some evidence of old damp damage to edges of front endpaper; similar but much less marked on lower corner of rear board. Frontispiece orn on edges. Text clean and in good order. Fair only: a reading copy. "English readers...will doubtless recognise a few of the following c... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04240
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. Wit... View more info
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Nash & Grayson: 1930
Seller ID: VN2607
Undated reprint, c1930. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine ends rubbed, small scribble on front pastedown, good. View more info
By: Leblanc, Maurice & Edgar Jepson
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Mills & Boon: 1909
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87047
Thrilling Adventure Library. Oval portrait of George Du Maurier (who played the character on stage) inset on front board. Original blue-black cloth, lettered in red on front board, in gilt on spine. Occasional foxing spots, otherwise near fine. View more info
