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Price: £50.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1890
Seller ID: 87029
New Edition. Undated, c1890. Original deep red cloth with raised design of chrysanthemums on front board, lettered in gilt on spine. Spine lightly sunned, prize plate (1907) on front free endpaper; otherwise crisp, bright, very good. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1890
Seller ID: VN2549
Hutchinson reprint edition, from around 1890. Lacks all prelims before contents leaf. Original maroon cloth, with raised pattern of chrysanthemums. Corners and spine ends rubbed and worn. With all faults - strictly a reading copy only of an uncommon book. View more info
Price: £12.00
Publisher: London, R. E. King: 1900
Seller ID: VN2696
Undated reprint, c1900. Original maroon cloth on bevelled boards, ruled in blind, lettered in gilt; brown endpapers. Spine lightly sunned, with 3mm loss on cloth head and foot; contents clean and tight, good. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1890
Seller ID: VN2751
Undated New Edition (c1890). Original grey cloth with blue speckled pattern on boards, lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Staple bound. Spine ends nicked and bumped, inner joint papers lightly cracked, some rusting of staples, good. View more info
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Hutchinson & Co.: 1895
Seller ID: VN2766
New Edition. Undated, c1895. Original crimson cloth with raised pattern of chrysanthemums on front board. Lettered in gilt on spine; brown endpapers. Lightly scuffed, light foxing, front inner joint papers chipped, otherwise very good. View more info
By: Mason, A. E. W. [Alfred Edward Woodley Mason]
Price: £35.00
Publisher: London, Hodder & Stoughton: 1910
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 88087
Original red cloth with two sets of vertical yellow lines on front board, one on spine: front board lettered in white, spine lettered in gilt. Lightly scuffed, armorial bookplate on front pastedown, a little light foxing, otherwise very good. Crime novel which introduces the character of Inspector Hanaud. View more info
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: £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: £35.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1899
Seller ID: 91037
2/- Copyright Novel. Undated [1899]. Illustrated by D. Murray Smith. Original pictorial paper-covered boards, with fine-ribbed maroon cloth spine lettered in gilt. Corners and edges rubbed, spine a little darkened, light foxing, good. Topp [II, p 368]. The second collection of six Martin Hewitt detective stories; this series originally appeared in The Windsor Magazine. View more info
By: Morrison, Arthur
Price: £30.00
Publisher: London, Ward, Lock & Co.: 1897
Edition: 1st Edition
Seller ID: 92134
Undated first edition [1897]. Twelve plates by Sydney Cowell and Stanley L. Woods. Original maroon buckram on bevelled boards, lettered in gilt, with gilt vignette at foot of spine. Corners rubbed, small chip at foot of spine, inner joint papers chipped, trace of removed bookplate on front pastedown, two plates have tears to edges, fair/good. A collection of six detective stories, but not featuring Morrison's best-known detective, Martin Hewitt. There may be up to three ... 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
