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By: Mathers, Helen [ie Ellen Mathews]
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1878
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 87099
Original red cloth, lettered and decorated in black and gilt; black endpapers. Staple bound: staples rusting. Dark red stain on upper portion of front board and more widely on rear board, with some white marks along bottom edge, a little shaken; a fair copy of a scarce item. A confessional crime novel. Also contains the short story Stephen Hatton. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, T. Fisher Unwin: 1885
Edition: First English Edition
Seller ID: 80061
Original red cloth. Lettered and illustrated in black on front board, in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers. Lightly scuffed, spine faintly sunned, front inner joint paper lightly cracked (but joint tight), a little foxing, otherwise very good. Crime/mystery story: why has Frederick Olyphant disappeared? First published in New York in the same year. View more info
By: Meade, L. T [Elizabeth Thomasina Meade]
Price: £18.00
Publisher: London, John Long: 1909
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2697
Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. Spine sunned, board edges marked; staining on endpapers, and lacking front free endpaper. A good reading copy of an uncommon Meade title, aimed at adults rather than children. Listed in Hubin's Crime Fiction. View more info
By: Merriman, H. S. [ie Hugh Stowell Scott]
Price: £7.50
Publisher: Leipzig, Tauchnitz: 1902
Edition: Copyright Edition
Seller ID: VN0111
Early C20th green cloth. Signature on front pastedown, otherwise very good. Todd [3550a] First issue; series half-title bound in View more info
By: Meyer, Charles
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Frederick Warne & Co.: 1894
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 89005
First Edition (?). Undated (1894?), yellowback edition. Original pictorial paper-covered boards. Boards rubbed with some light wrinkles/creases; top layer of paper on spine mostly missing (only a small part of title is visible) although lower white paper layer of spine remains intact, inner joint papers cracked (but joints tight), thus only fair. Topp [IV, p. 234] records the existence of the book, but adds "I cannot trace it". Listed in Hubin. It is unclear how ... View more info
By: Moodey, Martha Livingstone
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Cassell & Co.: 1888
Edition: First English Edition
Seller ID: VN2126
"Cassell's American Library of Fiction". Undated [1888]. Original pictorial paper-covered boards; spine and front board blue-black rather than yellow or white. Spine ends rubbed, chipping along hinges, undated signatures on prelims, good. Topp [VII, p.206] describes the later (1890) issue in the Railway Library. Publisher's catalogue code dated 5G.7.88 bound in at end. View more info
By: Morrison, Arthur
Price: £65.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1896
Seller ID: 83068
Second Edition, yellowback, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated [1896]. Illustrated by T. C. S. Crowther. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Corners and board edges rubbed, spine a little darkened, light foxing, good. Topp [II, p.372 & 389 for later reprint issues]. The third collection of Morrison's Hewitt detective stories; this series also originally appeared in The Windsor Magazine. View more info
By: Morrison, Arthur
Price: £95.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1895
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 85047
Original red cloth on bevelled boards with small gilt vignette bottom right on front board, lettered in gilt. Spine a little darkened and rubbed at top, light mark on corner of front board, signature (and matching name stamp) dated 1901 on front free endpaper, light foxing throughout, good. The second collection of six Martin Hewitt detective stories; this series originally appeared in The Windsor Magazine. View more info
By: Morrison, Arthur
Price: £40.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1900
Seller ID: VN2271
Yellowback, 2/- Copyright Novels. Undated, c1900. Illustrated by D. Murray Smith. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Corners rubbed, rear board grazed with some light staining, good. Topp [II, p.384]. The second collection of Morrison's Hewitt detective stories; this series originally appeared in The Windsor Magazine. View more info
By: Morrison, Arthur
Price: £26.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1895
Seller ID: VN2565
Undated reprint, c1895. Illustrated. Same binding style as the first edition: blue cloth with illustration (pieces of paper) in black and white, lettered in gilt. Some wrinkling of cloth on lower part of front board and on spine; spine a little dulled and rubbed, inner joint papers chipped (but joints tight), some foxing spots, thus only fair/good. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: Glasgow, James Hedderwick & Sons: 1926
Edition: 1st Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author(s)
Seller ID: 88067
Original light grey-green cloth, lettered and illustrated in black. A little foxing, very good. Inscribed on front free endpaper: Alexander Morton, Author 6 Sep/28. View more info
By: Moser, Inspector [Maurice] and Charles F[rederick] Rideal
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, George Routledge & Sons: 1890
Seller ID: 88057
Hearth and Home Library. Undated [1890]. Original red front board and spine, with series title blindstamped at head of front board. Inner joint papers lightly cracked, page edges lightly tanned, but binding clean and bright: good. "All these stories. . . are founded upon facts" View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1884
Seller ID: VN2494
New Edition. Late C19th rebinding in crimson cloth with leather title label on spine. Spine and board edges sunned to brown, otherwise a tight copy, good. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1909
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: VN2643
Original blindstamped black cloth with repeated motif in red on front board and spine, lettered in gilt. A few light marks, a little scuffing, undated name on front free endpaper, very good. View more info
By: Murray, David Christie & Egmont Hake
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Everett & Co: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 03978
Original red cloth. Spine lightly sunned and scuffed on ends, owner's address stamp on front free endpaper, a little foxing, very good. One of two novels by Murray (the other being The Heavenly Hand) co-written with Egmont Hake. Scarce. View more info
By: Murray, David Christie & Egmont Hake
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Everett & Co: 1907
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: VN2642
Original red cloth. Spine and board edges lightly sunned, a little foxing, very good. One of two novels by Murray (the other being The Heavenly Hand) co-written with (or, rather, completed by) Egmont Hake. Scarce. View more info
By: Murray, David Christie & Henry Herman
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co.: 1891
Seller ID: 03440
Second Edition. Original red cloth. Spine lightly sunned, signature (1892) on front free endpaper, very good. Crime novel: listed in Hubin View more info
By: Oakley, John:
Price: £20.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1902
Seller ID: 02080
First Edition. Frontispiece. Original blindstamped black cloth, with white border. Corners rubbed, light speckling on spine, good. Crime novel, listed in Hubin View more info
By: Old Sleuth
Price: £25.00
Publisher: New York, J. S. Ogilvie: 1905
Seller ID: 82068
[Dime Novel], Old Sleuth's Own, no 103. Undated, c1905. Original illustrated pale green light card wrappers, printed in red and black. Spine sunned and chipped on tips; paper tanned on edges throughout, good. Part of an ongoing series, supposedly by one author but probably by many, which was started by Ogilvie in 1898 as a follow up to an earlier series. Uncommon. View more info
By: Oppenheim, E. Phillips [Edward Phillips Oppenheim]
Price: £16.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1927
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 00831
Undated [1927]. Original deep yellow cloth, blocked in black: inverted green triangle with author's signature at head of spine. Lightly soiled, spine faintly sunned, a few foxing spots, otherwise good. Uncommon title. A collection of short stories concerning a gang of criminals (the "Virgins") under the leadership of "Madame". View more info
