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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 Edward Grainger]
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1899
Seller ID: 84086
Yellowback, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated [1899]. Frontispiece. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Light edgewear, corners rubbed, paper chipped on corners of front board, 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: 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: £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: £20.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04415
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
