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Penguin Books, 1961. Very Good. Second Penguin impression. MMP. Sunning, light creasing and rubbing to wrappers. Tanned edges. POI to half title. Else, clean and tight. PB no. 1292.
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Buried for Pleasure
by CRISPIN, Edmund [MONTGOMERY, Bruce]
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[Cranford interest?]; The Commandant
by ANDERSON, Jessica; HENDERSON, Ian (dust jacket design)
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London: Macmillan, 1975. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black buckram, spine lettered in white. Illustrated endpapers, the "design taken from a sketch of Moreton Bay held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney" (author's note). Bruising to head of spine. Toned, erratum slip (originally inserted at author's note), pasted directly, by PO, to p. 232, over incorrect lines. Else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket: edgewear and creasing. A solid copy of Anderson's own favourite novel (not the Regency Romance it appears). Very good/ very good Jessica Anderson (1926-2010) was a prize-winning Australian novelist, whose third, true crime, novel recounts the murder of Captain Patrick Logan, the notoriously brutal Commandant of the Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, 1826-30. The novelist's version uses Logan's young (fictionalised) sister-in-law to offer her own commentary on events. Anderson once drew parallels between the Moreton Bay social climate and Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford!
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Dance on Blood
by LINSCOTT, Gillian
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London: Virago Crime, 1998. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Trade paperback. Light edgewear, else, clean and tight. Near fine. The seventh outing of Nell Bray, Linscott's suffragette sleuth.
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Dial 577 R-A-P-E
by O'DONNELL, Lillian; STOREY, John (DJ illustrator)
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London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1974. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original black buckram, spine lettered in red. Pushing to spine ends, elsem clean and tidy. In John Storey's striking monochrome dust jacket, lettered in red: edgewear, rear panel shelf-soiled. Still, a pleasing copy of the second Nora Mulcahaney novel. Very good/ very good
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The Fair Venetian
by FARJEON, Eleanor; [BLAKELOCK, Denys]; [HAGART/ ROSE, Bertha]
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London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1943. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Unevenly sunned and rubbed, pushing to spine ends, edgewear, bottom corners bumped, a few scores to bottom board. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue pen to ffep: "Dearest Denys � Nollekins �/ from Eleanor � Nellikins �/ to mark The Silver Curlew's / second London year./ Dec. 22nd 1950" with another inscription below in blue ink: "Bertha Rose./ given to me by Ren�e / in memory of Denys./ March 15. 1971." Closed tear to bottom edge of pp. 211-2, nick to rear hinge, else, clean and tidy, especially given the wartime paper stock. A unique association copy of Farjeon's only crime novel. Good+ Aptly, with a printed dedication to Farjeon's brother, who was a crime novelist by trade: "To Joe from a novice in his craft". Inscribed to "Denys" in 1950, the first year of Blakelock and Farjeon's friendship, and subsequently re-gifted to another friend Bertha Rose (n�e Hagart) by…
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Give the Little Corpse a Great Big Hand
by BAGBY, George [pseud. Aaron Marc Stein]
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London: Macdonald, 1954. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Bruising to spine ends, edges dusty with a few spots. Else, clean and tidy. A very good copy of the 23rd Inspector Schmidt novel. The prolific US novelist received the Grand Master Edgar award in 1979 from the Mystery Writers of America.
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The Merry Hippo
by HUXLEY, Elspeth
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London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 253, [1]. Original turquoise cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends bruised, scant spotting to top edge. Else, clean and tidy. In Rosemary Grimble's illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned, rear panel shelf-soiled, wear and chipping, heaviest at spine ends, small loss and creasing to bottom edge of front panel. Still, a nice copy of Huxley's stand alone, satirical "novel of suspense", set in the fictional Protectorate of Hapana ("a cross between Kenya and [what was] Northern Rhodesia") during independence negotiations. Very good/ very good
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Murder Off Miami: A new era in crime fiction; A murder mystery planned by J. G. Links
by WHEATLEY, Dennis; LINKS, J. G.
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London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd/ Crime Book Society, 1936. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WHEATLEY. Ribbon-tied 4to dossier, ff. [136], incl. blood-stained textile extract, hair sample and a match + b/w plates. Buff card wrappers printed in blue and red, seal to rear crudely opened. Grubby, a little wrinkled, spine ends and edges creased and dog-eared, commensurate with its age. Inscribed in slightly faded and smudged blue pen to back wrapper: "For/ Girl Friday/ With the best of good/ wishes/ Dennis Wheatley". Else, internally clean and tidy. An interesting association copy of Wheatley's first case file experiment with good friend, furrier and Canaletto-expert Joseph Gluckstein Links. Very good. Murder in Miami was the first outing in Wheatley and Links' novel crime series, with titles presented as case files and including testimonies, police reports, photographs, and so-called pieces of evidence like hair or pills. Readers were invited to peruse the evidence and solve the mystery, with the…
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Murder at the Nightwood Bar
by Forrest, Katherine V.
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Grafton Books, 1993. Good+. First Grafton paperback edition, reprinted from original 1987 Naiad Press edition. Trade paperback, pp. 188. Edgewear, tanning to edges. Else, clean. Good+ Forrest pioneered lesbian crime fiction in the US.
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Playback
by CHANDLER, Raymond
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London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [208]. Red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Pushing to spine ends, head of spine sunned, dusty top edge. POI to front pastedown, offsetting to feps. Else, clean and tight. In the Patricia Davey-designed dust jacket: sunned, spine ends and corners chipped, creasing and edgewear, scoring to panels, foxed on reverse. Good+/ good+ The final Marlowe novel to be published in Chandler's lifetime.
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She Came Too Late
by WINGS, Mary.
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London: The Women's Press, 1987. Very Good. FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION (preceding the US edition). Tanned, bottom corners bumped, else, a clean, tight copy. Very good The debut of lesbian private eye Emma Victor. She Came Too Late featured on the London City Limits Bestseller List for seven weeks and won Best Novel of the Year in the 1986 Reader's Poll. The Women's Press Crime series.
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Speak No Evil
by EBERHART, Mignon G.
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New York: Random House, 1941. "Second printing before publication" i.e. second impression. 8vo, pp. [282]. Grey cloth, lettered and decorated in blue. Top edge blue. Gentle bruising to extremities. POI to ffep, marginal nicking to pp.127-130, else, clean, tight and bright. In the rather fabulous midnight blue and gilt illustrated dust jacket (first state?): a little rubbed, edgewear, nicking to extremities. Near fine/ very good. Random House Mystery Stories
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Stranger than Truth
by CASPARY, Vera; CRAIGIE, [Dorothy]
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London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, a few minor marks. In Craigie's perfect illustrated dust jacket: chips to spine ends, edgwear and creasing. Very good/ good+ A nice copy. As Dorothy Craigie's dust jacket neatly encapsulates, Caspary's novel is set in a pulp crime publishers, with Noble Barclay inspired by Bernarr Macfadden, the American magazine publisher and advocate of physical culture. Caspary had worked briefly on one of Macfadden's magazines in the 1920s, getting to know his daughter, Eleanor (the namesake of Barclay's daughter).
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The Terrible Door
by SIMS, George
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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.
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Un �chec de Maigret
by SIMENON, George
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Paris: Presses de la Cit�, 1956. Good. In French. Trade paperback, appears to be issued the same year as the limited edition (of 100), pp. [192]. Purple illustrated wrappers. Spine sunned. Creased and significantly rubbed. Tanned, a few marks to the copyright page, ink spot to p. 131, a few dog-eared pages. Else, clean and tidy. During the 1950s (?) and '60s, Presses de la Cit� issued Simenon's trade titles with the same wraparound illustration of Maigret in silhouette, smoking his pipe, set against a variety of background colours. Good+.
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The Underground Man
by MACDONALD, Ross [MILLAR, Kenneth]
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London: Collins/ The Crime Club, 1971. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bruising to spine ends, reading crease to spine. Edges toned. Else, clean and tight. In the Roy Belcher dust jacket: rubbed and creased at edges, extremities and joint of front flap. Still, an appealing copy. Very good/ very good. The sixteen Lew Archer novel.
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The Water Horse: A novel
by SCOTT, Genevieve
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London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1974. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, top corners bumped. Some foxing to edges. Else, clean and tight. In the original yellow, black and plum dust jacket: creasing to top edge and extremities. Very good/ very good. Gollancz Thriller Series.
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