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Price: £30.00
Publisher: Macdonald: London.: 1959.
Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 37255
Condition: Neat inked name and date on front free endpaper, lightly bruised top front corner tip, otherwise a fine copy in a VG pictorial dustjacket with some dust-soiling along spine panel and rear panel.
Classic pulp adventure that had first appeared as a long story - ''The Curse of Capistrano'' - by McCulley in All-Story Magazine in 1919, then made into a 1920 silent film starring Douglas Fairbanks and Noah Beery. followed by a US hardcover in 1924. Uncommon UK hardcover. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Wildside Press: USA.: Nd.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45970
ISBN: 0809511452
Condition: Fine (as new) copy.
222 pages. Collects six crime stories from the pulp magazines, though no other information is given as to their original publication history, no introduction, no publication date. As a print on demand book, I am reluctant to describe it as a ''First Edition''. View more info
By: McDevitt, Jack
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Citadel Press: NY.: 1976.
Edition: First paperback edition.
Seller ID: 02772
ISBN: 0806506199
Condition: VG+ copy.
248 pages: b/w stills throughout. View more info
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Pluto Press: London.: 1987.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 31990
ISBN: 074530124X
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with price sticker on inner front flap.
Mystery/private eye novel. View more info
By: Melville, James
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Secker & Warburg: London.: 1980.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 11990
Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine price-clipped dustjacket.
Crime novel: the author's second book. View more info
Price: £18.00
Publisher: Pluto Press: London.: 1997.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 40193
ISBN: 0745310176
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
252 pages. View more info
By: Michie, David
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Little, Brown: London.: 2001.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 15289
ISBN: 0727854534
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Thriller. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: The Beckford Society: UK.: 2014.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 37284
Condition: Fine (as new) copy.
Price: £50.00
Publisher: Ian Henry Publications, Ltd: UK.: 1994.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 28865
ISBN: 0860254615
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
By: Moloney, Susie
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Headline: London.: 1997.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 15736
ISBN: 0747219044
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket with promotional letter laid in (as new) but for a touch of edge wear.
Fantasy novel: ''a dying town, a desperate woman, then comes the Rainmaker''. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Uncommon UK hardcover. View more info
Price: £95.00
Publisher: New English Library (NEL): London.: 1983.
Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 31997
ISBN: 0450060322
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Jerry Cornelius spy novel (as alter ego ''Jerry Cornell''), sequel to THE CHINESE AGENT (1970) with an introduction by Jack Trevor Story. First published by Savoy Books as a paperback original in 1980. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Very uncommon UK hardcover. View more info
By: Morland, Nigel
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Cassell and Co.: London: 1956.
Edition: Reprint.
Seller ID: 45472
Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine copy in a good pictorial dustjacket with edge wear and dustsoiling to rear (white) panel.
Crime thriller, first published in 1935. View more info
By: Morrell, David
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Severn House: London: 1989.
Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 13600
ISBN: 0727817884
Condition: Page edges a little browned and lightly spotted, else a fine copy in a fine dustjacket(as new).
Sequel to FIRST BLOOD (which was the basis for the film RAMBO - and indeed this Seven House cover depicts the main character as Sylvester Stallone). Uncommon UK hardcover (most Severn House titles - as with Robert Hale - were printed for the library market). View more info
By: Morrissey, J. L.
Price: £75.00
Publisher: John Gifford: London.: Nd (1949).
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 42781
Condition: Near fine copy in a good (bright, unfaded) pictorial dustjacket with shallow chipping, creasing and several small closed tears along the edges.
Thriller. Very uncommon UK hardcover (there was a more common Thriller Book Club edition the following year). View more info
By: Mosley, Walter
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Serpent's Tail: London.: 1996.
Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 21458
ISBN: 1852425660
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket as new) but for a little browning along page edges.
An Easy Rawlings mystery. WITH TIPPED-IN BOOKPLATE SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. View more info
Price: £8.00
Publisher: 1987.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 38191
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Third Quarter 1987 (no. 27). Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. French sf magazine. View more info
By: MYSTERY FANCIER, (ed. Guy M. Townsend)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Guy M. Townsend: Madison, IN.: 1990.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 46069
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Summer 1990 issue: 104 pages. Magazine devoted to crime/mystery. View more info
By: MYSTERY FANCIER, (ed. Guy M. Townsend)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Guy M. Townsend: Madison, IN.: 1992.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 46070
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Fall 1992 issue: 104 pages. Magazine devoted to crime/mystery. View more info
By: Nash, Jay Robert
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Headline: London.: 1992.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 32694
ISBN: 0747206252
Condition: Fine copy in a nearly fine dustjacket.
434 pages. Dictionary of real crime (not crime writers and their fiction!) - over 16000 entries covering the slang used in law, police work, forensic science, drug & prison cultures, the media and criminals themselves. View more info
By: Nevins Jr., Francis M. (ed.)
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Bowling Green State University Popular Press.: 1970.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 36710
Condition: G/VG copy.
338 pages: collection of essays. View more info
By: NEW BLOOD, (ed. Chris Lacher)
Price: £35.00
Publisher: 1987-1990.
Edition: First editions.
Seller ID: 31233
Condition: Fine (unread) copies.
Seven issues of this small-press horror fiction magazine were published between 1987-1990, the first (''Premiere'') issue as an A5 booklet in plain red stapled wrappers, the next two as (larger) A4 perfect bound magazines in illustrated wrappers, and issues 4 - 7 as A4 stapled magazines. By issue seven it had become a slick professional newstand magazine with colour covers - and promptly folded. This is a fine/as new (unread) set of all seven issues. View more info
By: Newman, Sharan
Price: £10.00
Publisher: St. Martin's Press: NY.: 1981.
Edition: First paperback edition.
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 39131
Condition: VG copy.
Historical fantasy. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED, SIGNED AND DATED TO THE UK SF WRITER KEITH ROBERTS/''For Keith Roberts, with thanks and many wishes for a happy holiday, Sharon Newman, 1991''. View more info
By: North, John
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Ian Henry: Essex.: 1990.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 17272
ISBN: 0860252701
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
By: O'Connell, Jack
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY.: 1996.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 11059
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Thriller. View more info
By: O'Donnell, Peter
Price: £125.00
Publisher: Souvenir Press: London.: 1996.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 00015
ISBN: 0285633325
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Modesty Blaise novel. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. View more info
By: O'Donnell, Peter
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1984.
Edition: First paperback edition.
Seller ID: 41932
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
A Modesty Blaise thriller. View more info
By: O'Donnell, Peter
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Pan Books: London.: 1982.
Edition: First paperback edition.
Seller ID: 41947
ISBN: 0330268473
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
A Modesty Blaise thriller. View more info
By: OFF BEAT DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE,
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Pontiac Publishing Corp: Holyoke, MA.: 1959 (January).
Edition: First edition.
Seller ID: 38325
Condition: Tiny nick in front cover, a NF/Fine (unread) copy.
Volume 2, number 6 (January 1959). Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by Carl Pfeufer, pictorial wrappers. Mystery magazine which emphasized sex and violence. Note: previously titled SURE FIRE DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE for nine issues from 1956-1958, with a title change to OFF BEAT DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE from the September 1958 issue (with no change in volume numbering) for a further 26 issues till May 1963. See Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. 394-96. View more info
By: OFF BEAT DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE,
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Pontiac Publishing Corp: Holyoke, MA.: 1958 (November).
Edition: First edition.
Seller ID: 38328
Condition: A bright, NF/Fine (unread) copy.
Volume 2, number 5 (November 1958). Octavo, single issue, cover illustration by M. E. Sherwood, pictorial wrappers. Mystery magazine which emphasized sex and violence. Note: previously titled SURE FIRE DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE for nine issues from 1956-1958, with a title change to OFF BEAT DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE from the September 1958 issue (with no change in volume numbering) for a further 26 issues till May 1963. See Cook, Mystery, Detective, and Espionage Magazines, pp. 394-96. Note: although Harlan Ellison is listed on the cover, there is actually no story by him in this issue. View more info
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Corgi: London.: 1977.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Inscription: Signed
Seller ID: 43773
ISBN: 0552104655
Condition: Page edges browning, a NF/Fine (unread) copy..
Anthology: reprints with a checklist of Frankenstein films. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE EDITOR TO FELLOW UK HORROR EDITOR HUGH LAMB AT TIME OF PUBLICATION/''To Hugh - another chop off the Axeman's Block! Best wishes Michel , June 1977''. With Hugh Lamb's signature at top corner of the same page and his initials rubber-stamped on the inside rear cover: Hugh has also highlighted some of the film titles in the checklist at the back of the book. Laid in is a clipping from the Sept/Oct 1979 BFS Bulletin which has a review by Hugh Lamb of the book. View more info
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Berkley: NY.: 1998.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 11394
ISBN: 0425161439
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
Mystery novel by a writer better known in the horror field. View more info
By: Paul, Elliot
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Random House: NY.: 1945.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 46025
Condition: Bottom corners bumped, else a near fine copy in a fair dustjacket.
Two mystery novels. ''First printing'' stated on copyright page. View more info
By: Pearsall, Jay
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Fireside: NY.: 1995.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 35604
ISBN: 0671872370
Condition: Fine (as new) copy.
176 pages. View more info
By: Pendo, Stephen
Price: £50.00
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press: USA.: 1976.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 36913
ISBN: 0810809311
Condition: Page edges show light spotting,, else a fine copy as issued without dustjacket (as new).
240 pages. View more info
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company: Boston.: 1978.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 35572
ISBN: 0316698830
Condition: Fine copy in a fine price-clipped dustjacket.
Interviews with 26 crime/thriller writerrs: ''twenty-six masters of contemporary detective fiction are put on the stand and asked many questions about the private and professional lives of their sleuths''. View more info
By: Perowne, Barry (aka Philip Atkey)
Price: £25.00
Publisher: Dean & Son Ltd: London.: Nd (1968).
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 45471
ISBN: 0603035043
Condition: Inked name on inside front board, page edges browning, else a fine (unread) copy in pictorial boards (as issued).
Small pocket-sized hardcover. Originally published in 1937 in The Sexton Blake Library no 601 (and published two years later in the USA as ''They Hang Them in Gibraltar'').''Barry Perowne was a pseudonym of the British writer Philip Atkey (1908 - 1985), best known for his crime fiction. Another pseudonym he used was Pat Merriman and also published books under his own name. By agreement with the E W Hornung Estate, he continued the A. J. Raffles series after its creator E. W. Hornung's death, as well as other stories with his own characters. Four hardbacks designed for the younger mar... View more info
By: Petit, Chris
Price: £5.00
Publisher: Scribners: London.: 2002.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 11988
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Thriller. View more info
By: Petit, Chris
Price: £10.00
Publisher: MacMillan: London.: 1999.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 33391
ISBN: 0333622782
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new) with publicity material laid in.
Thriller. View more info
By: Petrie, Glen
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Bantam Press: London.: 1989.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 17260
ISBN: 0593016963
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
By: Poe, Edgar Allan
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Orion: London.: 2002.
Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 12314
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collects the title story plus four others: 166 pages. Part of the Crime Masterworks series. View more info
By: Pohl, Frederik
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Sidgwick & Jackson: London.: 1976.
Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41315
ISBN: 0283983418
Condition: Page edges browned, bruising to bottom corner tips, a near fine copy in a near fine dustjacket.
Collects nineteen sf stories. Seven-page introduction by Lester del Rey: six-page afterword (with story notes) by Pohl. First published in the US in 1975 as a Ballantine paperback original, and also as a Nelson Doubleday Book Club edition. Uncommon UK hadcover. View more info
By: Pointer, Michael
Price: £15.00
Publisher: David & Charles: London.: 1975.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 08141
ISBN: 0715367498
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
200 pages: ''the first book to recount the many ways in which the entertainment industry has used, and misused, the best-known character in all fiction''. View more info
Price: £15.00
Publisher: Aspen Press: Boulder, CO.: 1974.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 41436
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Collects four Uncle Abner detective stories, edited and with a five-page introduction by Tom Schantz and Enid Schantz. View more info
By: Price, Anthony
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1981.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 10608
ISBN: 0575030283
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
Espionage novel. View more info
By: Priestley, J. B.
Price: £30.00
Publisher: William Heinemann: London.: 1938.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 40675
Condition: Page edges browning, a VG+ copy (dark blue cloth) in a G/VG price-clipped dustjacket with shallow chipping along the edges and a little browning to thespine panel (background only, not affecting red lettering).
SF novel.''a surprising amount of his work makes use of sf or fantasy themes and devices, though sometimes in a delusional frame, as with Albert Goes Through (1933), whose eponymous hero's experiences in an absurd cinematic universe are explained as a fever-dream. But sf concerns do to some extent propel Adam in Moonshine (1927), featuring a Ruritanian-flavoured conspiracy to restore monarchical rule to the UK, and Benighted (1927; vt The Old Dark House 1928) - and appear more overtly in THE DOOMSDAY MEN (1938), where a Mad Scientist has housed a doomsday Weapon in a tower in Los Angel... View more info
By: Pronzini, Bill
Price: £20.00
Publisher: Mysterious Press: NY.: 1987.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 35576
ISBN: 0892962873
Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).
By: PULP CLASSICS, (ed. Robert Weinberg)
Price: £8.00
Publisher: Robert Weinberg: Chicago.: 1980.
Edition: First edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 34689
Condition: Fine (unread) copy.
21st issue. 22 issues of this pulp reprint small-press magazine were published by Robert Weinberg 1972-1979. Reprints four stories from the detective pulps, two from TEN DETECTIVE ACES and two from FEDERAL AGENT in the 1930s. View more info
By: Queen, Ellery
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Lippincott: NY.: Nd (1961).
Edition: Book Club Edition.
Seller ID: 45980
Condition: Fine copy in an almost fine dustjacket.
Omnibus of three crime novels. Book Club Edition. View more info
By: Queen, Ellery
Price: £10.00
Publisher: Victor Gollancz: London.: 1970.
Edition: First British edition (& 1st printing).
Seller ID: 46003
ISBN: 0575005270
Condition: Page edges a little browned, an almost fine copy in a VG dustjacket.
Detective novel. View more info
By: Queen, Ellery
Price: £5.00
Publisher: International Polygonics Ltd (IPL).: NY.: 1987.
Seller ID: 46209
Condition: Fine (as new) copy.
First published in 1933 as by ''Barnaby Ross'' (though ''Ellery Queen'' itself is a House Name). A Drury Lane Mystery. View more info
