THE TERRIBLE DOOR by Sims, george - 1966 first edition

New York: Pocket, 1966. First edition. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket. Tanned pages. Spine has small stress cracks.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 175 p. Red page blocks. Mystery fiction: A bookseller sets out to find some valuable letters, but, whoops, he opens "the terrible door" of the past; themes of a sexy widow, a sinister tycoon, a web of blackmail and murder. "Every sort of oddness", back cover.

pocket, 1966 first edition . 50241, very good, crease, name written on the ep, , paperback,

pocket, 1966 first edition . 50241, very good - fine, crease, , paperback,

United States: Pocket, 1966. Solid with a bump on the top of the front cover with a tiny tear, a few thin creases on the covers, and the covers show light wear from rubbing.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good -.

Penguin, 1967. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York: Horizon Press, 1964. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Good +/good +. 176p. Pages 70-76 are brown from newspaper clipping stored there, jacket has chips to edges especially at corners. Author's first mystery. Death of a bookseller leads to the search for the Ibiza letters in London, Naples, and the Riviera. [Hubin; p. 369] (7-1/2"x5-1/8")

Horizon Press. Good/Good. 1964. Hard Cover. (I235) .

New York: Horizon Press, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The first novel by Sims, who was a journalist and in British Intelligence in World War II before finding his place as a dealer in rare books and manuscripts in London, features Robert Seldon, an English bookseller who has been offered a large sum of money to find the correspondence of an eccentric writer with unusual sexual tastes. Seldon's search finds a strange variety of people and a considerable amount of danger. Top edge of text block shows some foxing, o/w text and boards are clean and unmarked, tight and square. The dustjacket shows a touch of edgewear, else Fine; no tears, no creasing or chipping, not price-clipped. A collectable copy of this highly-praised bibliomystery.

The Bodley Head, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. Reprint. 176 pages. Purple dust jacket with B&W lettering over blue cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Moderate sunning to spine. Notable foxing and soiling to DJ.

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, edges foxed. Lengthy pencil note to ffep connecting characters and settings to British booksellers and quoting Sims, some foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. In Bernard Blatch's original pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned, score to front panel, else, sharp and bright. A pleasing copy of Sims' first biblio thriller. George Sims (1923-1999) was a well-known antiquarian bookseller and crime novelist; a number of his novels have been re-issued in the British Library Classic Thrillers series.