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The Sedan Murder Mystery
by Wallace, John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Australasian Edition
- Published
- 1938
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$194.64
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Octavo, one page advertisements, discreet owner's stamp on endpapers, leaves slightly tanned, but very good in bright original teal blue cloth.
First edition. Wallace's second novel. Very scarce.
Wallace subsequently published his books in Melbourne under his own imprints, Crime Book Publishing Co. and Popular Publications, also writing as 'Aintree', 'Texas Ranger', and 'Gerald Grantham'. Item Price
NZ$194.64
The Myth is Murder
by Johnston, George H. writing as 'Shane Martin'
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1959
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$367.03
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Octavo, edges tanned and some pale staining to early leaves, original plum boards lettered in silver on spine with bright William Randell dustwrapper priced at 10s.6d.
First UK edition.
Scarce pseudonymous George Johnston novel. Out of print. Item Price
NZ$367.03
Death of a Swagman
by Upfield, Arthur W.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First UK edition
- Published
- 1946
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$367.03
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Octavo, original dark blue cloth with chipped dustwrapper priced at 8/6 (some tape repairs on verso, spine sunned, lower panel a bit rubbed).
First UK edition. Precedes the Australian edition published by Angus & Robertson. Item Price
NZ$367.03
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The Bone is Pointed
by Upfield, Arthur W.
- Condition
- Used - Very Good-
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1938
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$194.64
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Octavo, neat contemporary inscription on half-title page, endpaper maps printed in blue, original red cloth slightly sunned on spine.
First edition. Item Price
NZ$194.64
Millionaire Gangster Again
by Wallace, John
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1942
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$139.02
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Octavo, [3]pp. publisher's advertisements, original orange cloth (bit sunned on spine).
First edition. Very scarce.
Sequel to Wallace's first novel Millionaire Gangster (1937). Item Price
NZ$139.02
A Chip on My Shoulder
by Cronin, Bernard writing as 'Eric North'.
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- circa 1950s
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$50.05
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Octavo, cheap paper browning and spotting, original pictorial wrappers (repaired on spine and a bit creased).
Scarce paperback edition with fabulous pulp art wrappers. 'A Tough thriller…Murder…Drugs, and…...' Item Price
NZ$50.05
Nobody Stops Me
by Cronin, Bernard writing as 'Eric North'.
- Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1960
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$139.02
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Octavo, usual paper toning, original blue boards with pictorial dustwrapper (few chips).
First edition. Scarce. 'A typical Eric North situation—the pyjama-clad hero is walking down the corridor of the Kalgoorlie-Melbourne express when he bumps into the body of a dead man.' Item Price
NZ$139.02
The Mystery of Swordfish Reef
by Upfield, Arthur W.
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- First edition
- Published
- 1939
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$194.64
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Octavo, map on front free endpaper, contemporary name on front pastedown, foxing and offsetting on endpapers, original green cloth (sunned on spine).
First edition. Item Price
NZ$194.64
The Shadows Mystery
by Cronin, Bernard
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- circa 1955
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$194.64
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Octavo, very good in original period pulp wrappers.
Magpie Books, second series, no. 95; originally published as no. 46 in the first series in typographical rather than pictorial wrappers. Scarce. Item Price
NZ$194.64
"Rubicon Outlaws"
by John Wallace
- Condition
- Used
- Published
- 1939
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
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ARMADALE, Victoria, AUS
- Item Price
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NZ$305.86
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Octavo, very good in original orange cloth with pictorial dustwrapper.
First edition.
An Australian 'Western' set in north-east Victoria.
Scarce.
John Wallace was a Melbourne publisher & writer. Item Price
NZ$305.86