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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
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
By: Kennedy, Bart
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Thomas Burleigh: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04415
Condition: Very Good
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
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Good
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: £7.50
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1913
Seller ID: VN1230
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Good
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
Condition: Fair
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 chapters as having appeared in my Strange Tales of a Nihilist" (Author's Preface). A Secret Service, is a partly re-writt... View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 04240
Condition: Fair
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. With the law of libel looming darkly, the reason is obvious". View more info
Price: £45.00
Publisher: London, F. V. White & Co.: 1898
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92075
Condition: Good
Frontispiece. Original fine-ribbed navy-blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Corners scuffed and lightly bumped, afew light marks on board edges, endpapers browned, good+. A murder mystery. View more info
By: Leblanc, Maurice & Edgar Jepson
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Mills & Boon: 1909
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87047
Condition: Near Fine
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
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1906
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86006A
Condition: Good
Original light brown cloth, framed and decorated in black, lettered in gilt. Extremities scuffed, a little dulled, good. Crime novel by one of the authors of Convict 99. View more info
Price: £75.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1919
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 90131
Condition: Good
First Edition "For Sale Abroad". Frontispiece. Original light blue glazed cloth, framed and lettered in black. Oval impressed stamp ("For Sale Abroad") at bottom on rear board. Spine sunned (slightly streaked) with short closed split at head, scuffed, undated signatures on prelims, otherwise good. Very scarce crime novel, featuring a female detective. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1907
Seller ID: VN2582
Condition: Very Good
Unstated, but second edition, in Cassell's standard second edition binding of fine-ribbed navy blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt on spine. Illustrated. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, otherwise very good. A crime/mystery novel View more info
By: Leroux, Gaston
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, T. Werner Laurie: 1923
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 01498
Condition: Good
Undated first [1923]. Original red cloth, blocked in black. Corners rubbed, foxing spots throughout, good. View more info
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By: Leroux, Gaston
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Eveleigh Nash: 1914
Edition: First British Edition
Seller ID: 88096
Condition: Good
Original deep purple cloth, framed and lettered in red. Spine sunned, and spine portion of rear board speckled/discoloured, good. The adventures of Leroux's amateur detective, Joseph Rouletabille, in Russia. View more info
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, William Heinemann: 1908
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 86058
Condition: Very Good
"Heinemann's Shorter Novels Series". Original patterned green cloth, with gilt decorative panel on front board and on spine. Minimal scuffing, light foxing, very good. A married woman and her lover elope: on their train journey death unexpectedly intervenes. View more info
