Spring 2009

PART ONE: A TO F

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	Adams, Herbert. A WORD OF SIX LETTERS. London: Collins Crime Club, 1938. First edition, fourth printing. Paperback. Near fine in dust-wrapper. Scarce in wrapper. £20
	Ambler, Eric. A COFFIN FOR DIMITRIOS. New York: Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Very good plus to near fine in dust-wrapper (spine ends and corners very lightly chipped; light wear and tear). A clean, attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone, the jacket colouring unusually bright and fresh. £750
	Ambler, Eric. THE MASK OF DIMITRIOS. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1940. First edition, fifth printing. Very good (previus owner's inscription to front free endpaper) in dust-wrapper (overall dustiness; Hodder price sticker to spine; a few tears including a crease-tear and small chip to the lower front panel). Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone. Scarce printing. £25
	'B.B.' THE LITTLE GREY MEN. London: Eyre & Spottiswood, 1942. First edition. Near fine (foxed) in a very good d/w (a few chips and closed tears held on the verso with archival tissue tape). £250
	'B.B.' THE BADGERS OF BEARSHANKS. London: Benn, 1961. First edition. Near fine in dustwrapper (top corner of ffep clipped, presumably to remove a bookseller's price). Super copy. £125
	Block, Lawrence. A LONG LINE OF DEAD MEN. London: Orion, 1994. First edition. Near fine in dust-wrapper. £10
	Block, Lawrence. EVERYBODY DIES. London: Orion, 1998. First edition. Signed by the author. Fine in d/w, unread, retaining the original bookseller's (Waterstone's) protective wrapping. £15
	(Boxing) Henderson, Eugene. BOX ON. London: Stanley Paul, 1957. First edition. No d/w. Near very good (abraded patch to upper board, spine gilt dulled). £10
	(Boxing) Platt, Charles. FAMOUS FIGHTS AND FIGHTERS. London: Odhams, no date [1920]. First edition. No d/w. Very good (pages tanned, spine lettering faded). Hinges intact. A sound, tidy copy of a delicate production. £35
	Brock, Lynn. THE DAGWORT COOMBE MURDER. London: Collins Crime Club, 1938. First edition, seventh printing. Paperback. Very good plus to near fine in dust-wrapper. Scarce in wrapper £20
	Brookmyre, Christopher. ONE FINE DAY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT. London: Little, Brown, 1999. First edition. Near fine in dust-wrapper (vertical crease to back panel). £15
	Burke, James Lee. SUNSET LIMITED. London: Orion, 1998. First British edition. Fine in d/w. £10
	Campbell, Alice. DESIRE TO KILL. London: Collins Crime Club, 1937. First edition, fifth impression. Paperback. Near fine in a very good plus dust-wrapper. Scarce in wrapper. £12
	Carr, John Dickson. IT WALKS BY NIGHT. New York: Harper, 1930. First edition. Near very good (some marks to cloth) in a worn and torn dust-wrapper (large chips to head and tail of faded pink spine taking title, author and publisher imprint; large chips to back panel clipping headline and taking a little text; front panel virtually all there; flaps intact; hinges and folds strengthened on verso with acid-free tissue; other, non-archival repair to verso). Worthy of restoration, this is the first example of the jacket I have seen for several years, in any condition. £625
	Carr, John Dickson. IT WALKS BY NIGHT. New York: Harper, 1930. First edition. No d/w. Near very good (light wear and marking to cloth and extremities; the paper seal on page 211 roughly removed taking top inner corner of page and losing a few words). £55
	Carr, John Dickson. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS MURDER. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1936. First edition. No d/w. Slightly shorter, fawn binding lettered black, 'Ex-Libris' logo to front (not ex-library). Very good. £35
	Carr, John Dickson. TO WAKE THE DEAD. New York: Harper, 1938. First American edition. Very good (tiny bookseller's label to rear pastedown; occasional faint stains to gutters and upper margins) in dust-wrapper (a few small stains; corner chips and faint crease to left of spine; spine and back panel a little dusty). Scarce in jacket, the front panel and spine of which are identical (aside from 'Harpers') to the Hamilton edition. £450
	Carr, John Dickson. DEATH TURNS THE TABLES. New York: Harper, 1941. First edition. Very good plus (some tiny spotting to cloth; offsetting to endpapers and previous owner's name to front free endpaper) in slightly edge-worn very good dust-wrapper (rubbing to back panel slightly affecting a few letters; short closed tear to front panel held on verso with archival tape; light chipping to spine foot). £175
	Carr, John Dickson. TILL DEATH DO US PART. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1944. First edition. Very good plus (tiny bump to upper front corner; foxing to pastedowns; cheap paper tanned at edges) in a very good dust-wrapper (very slightly rubbed and nicked at spine ends; a few tiny corner chips and creases; couple of tiny pieces of archival tissue tape to verso). £95
	Carr, John Dickson as 'Carter Dickson'. THE LORD OF THE SORCERERS. London: Heinemann, 1946. First edition. Near fine (red 'D' to front free end-paper) in a very good dust-wrapper (a little rubbing to folds; small chip to top edge of back panel, smaller chips to spine ends; a few small pieces of clear tape to verso). £75
	Carr, John Dickson. BELOW SUSPICION. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1950. First edition. Very good (slightly foxed; ghost of pencilled '10p' price to front free endpaper) in near very good price-clipped dust-wrapper (chip to head of spine not affecting title; a few small corner chips and short closed tears held on the verso with archive tissue tape; small '6s. net' stamp next to price-clip on flap). Quite scarce in wrapper. £45
	Surprisingly uncommon Carr, John Dickson. MERRIVALE, MARCH AND MURDER. Edited and with an introduction by Douglas G. Greene. New York: International Polygonics, 1991. First edition. Fine in dust-wrapper. From the wrapper: 'First book publication, contains previously uncollected material'. Includes two Merrivale stories, all nine Colonel March 'Department of Queer Complaints' stories, and seven other stories. £75
	Cary, Joyce. AN AMERICAN VISITOR. London: Benn, 1933. First English edition. No d/w. Original black cloth, gilt. About very good (corners rubbed, short tear to top left corner of spine). Author's second novel. £12
	Cather, Willa. SHADOWS ON THE ROCK. London: Cassell, 1932. First British edition. Very good in a good dust-wrapper (loss at head of spine and top corner of back panel, closed tear across full width of back panel). £45
	Chandler, Raymond. THE BIG SLEEP. New York: Knopf, 1939. First edition, second printing ('First and Second Printing before publication'). No d/w. Very good plus to near fine (just starting to fray at spine head; cloth rubbed through on one corner; usual browning to gutters). £175
	Chandler, Raymond. THE HIGH WINDOW. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1943. First British edition. No d/w. Good plus (cloth dusty and faded; inscription to pastedown; contents generally clean but showing production creases to several pages and a small chip to the title page). Scarce. £45
	Chandler, Raymond. THE LADY IN THE LAKE. New York: Knopf, 1943. First edition. Near fine (faint stain to top edge which just shows on upper margin of some early pages) in a very good dust-wrapper (small chips to corners and spine ends, just taking part of 'The' in spine title; a little darkening to spine lettering and white back panel; slight rubbing to front flap fold and back panel's right edge; small stain to verso of foot of spine which I didn't notice until I removed the jacket protector). A clean copy with a crisper, sharper jacket than usually found. £1,250
	Chandler, Raymond. SMART-ALECK KILL. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. First edition. Near fine in dust-wrapper (wrapper with a couple of short closed tears; red spine faded as usual). £150
	(Chandler, Raymond) Norman, Frank. BANG TO RIGHTS. London: Secker & Warburg, 1958. First edition. Very good in dust-wrapper (bookplate; browning to spine and back panel of wrapper). With a foreword by Raymond Chandler. £12
	Charteris, Leslie. THE SAINT IN PURSUIT. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1971. First edition. Very good plus in dust-wrapper (crease to ffep, very slight foxing or to page edges, titles ticked to listing page). There is a production flaw to the bottom edge of the half-title and the ffep - an abrasion mark where the two were once stuck together. Scarce. £85
	Charteris, Leslie. THE SAINT IN TROUBLE. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1979. First edition. Very good plus to near fine in dust-wrapper (creasin to front flap). Scarce. £65
	Charteris, Leslie. SALVAGE FOR THE SAINT. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1983. First edition. Fine in d/w (crease to back flap corner). Superb copy. Scarce. £295
	Chase, James Hadley. THE FLESH OF THE ORCHID. London: Jarrolds, no date [1948]. First edition. Very good in dust-wrapper (head of spine and corners bumped; jacket with a few internal tape repairs and a neatly repaired closed crease-tear to the lower left corner of the front panel). Follow-up to 'No Orchids for Miss Blandish'. £25
	Christie, Agatha. THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD. London: Collins, 1926. First edition. No d/w. About very good (spine a little darkened with edges rubbed; semi-circular stain to front board; marginal stain to a few pages including front endpapers; pencilled previous owner's name to front pastedown). A solid copy of this important Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone £395
	Christie, Agatha. SPARKLING CYANIDE. London: Collins Crime Club, 1945. First edition. No d/w. Near fine (corners slightly pushed; small bump to top of rear board; a few tiny marks to cloth). £18
	Clavell, James. WHIRLWIND. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1986. First edition. Near fine in dust-wrapper. Heavy volume: enquire re. postage. £12
	Cole, G.D.H. & M. BIG BUSINESS MURDER. London: Collins Crime Club, 1938. First edition, fifth printing. Paperback. Near fine. £10
	Cole, G.D.H. & M. DEATH OF A STAR. London: Collins Crime Club, 1938. First edition, sixth printing. Paperback. Near fine in dust-wrapper. £20
	Colfer, Eoin. ARTEMIS FOWL. London: Viking, 2001. First edition (first printing with '1' on number line). Inscribed by the author to the title page: "To Lesley / Best wishes / Eoin Colfer / 11.7.01". Near fine in dust-wrapper (very faint creasing to head of spine). £45
	Cronin, A.J. THE STARS LOOK DOWN. London: Gollancz, 1935. First edition. Very good in near very good dust-wrapper (minuscule previous owner's name and date to front free endpaper; wrapper with creasing and showing a few chips, the largest at the lower edge of the front panel and spine taking parts of some letters; closed tears and some archival tissue tape to verso). Scarce in d/w. £75
	Cronin, A.J. THE CITADEL. London: Gollancz, 1937. First edition. Very good in dust-wrapper (inscription to ffep; wrapper with a few chips to corners and head of spine, just affecting lettering; a few marks and chips to lower pane). £45
	Deighton, Len. BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN. London: Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition. Very good plus in dust-wrapper (small production flaw mark to corner of back flap and rear endpaper). £25
	Deighton, Len. LEN DEIGHTON'S CONTINENTAL DOSSIER. London: Michael Joseph, 1968. First edition. Pictorial boards without d/w, as issued. Non-criminous. A travel guide. Very good plus to near fine. £8
	Doyle, Arthur Conan. THE VALLEY OF FEAR. New York: Burt, 1915 (or thereabouts). First edition, early reprint. Printed from the original Doran plates; jacket with same front panel illustration and spine lettering font as the first. Near fine (pencil name to front free endpaper; tiny bookseller's label to rear pastedown; pencil numbers and mark to one page which appear to have been made on the sheets, i.e. before the book was bound) in dust-wrapper with rubbing to folds, chipping to edges, and a few closed tears). Very scarce. £250
	Duffy, Maureen. HOUSESPY. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1978. First edition. Very good plus in dust-wrapper. £8
	Eberhart, Mignon. THE HOUSE ON THE ROOF. London: Collins Crime Club, 1939. First edition, fourth printing. Paperback. Near fine in dust-wrapper (front flap fold split half way up). Scarce in dust-wrapper. £12
	Eddings, David. THE SAPPHIRE ROSE. London: Harper Collins, 1991. First edition. Fine in dust-wrapper. £10
	Ellroy, James. WHITE JAZZ. London: Century, 1992. First edition. Fine in dust-wrapper (very slight creasing to edges). Nice copy. £25
	Farjeon, J. Jefferson. THE OVAL TABLE. London: Collins Crime Club, 1946. First edition. Very good in price-clipped dust-wrapper (corners bumped, d/w with a few closed tears, dusty back panel and small chips). £15
	Faulkner, William. PYLON. London: Chatto & Windus, 1935. First edition. Top page edges not coloured, indicating second state of binding. Dust-wrapper not clipped, with '7s.6d. net' to flap. Very good plus to near fine in dust-wrapper (light wear to board edges, a few tiny marks to cloth; wrapper with tiny nicks to corners, sunning to spine and what appears to be a damp mark to the foot of the spine). £250
	Ferguson, John. DEATH COMES TO PERIGORD. London: Collins Crime Club, 1936. First edition, fifth printing. Paperback. Near fine in a very good plus dust-wrapper (name and address to first page). Scarce in dust-wrapper. £12
	Ferguson, John. THE GROUSE MOOR MYSTERY. London: Collins Crime Club, 1938. First edition, fifth printing. Paperback. Near fine in d/w. Scarce in d/w. £12
	Fletcher, J.S. THE MURDER OF THE ONLY WITNESS. London: Harrap, 1934. First edition, second impression (first Jig-Saw Mystery printing). Very good plus to near fine in suberb, bright dust-wrapper (offsetting to endpapers, residue from tissue seal on jig-saw box at rear). An excellent copy, but lacking the jig-saw pieces. £50
	Footner, Hulbert. MURDER RUNS IN THE FAMILY. London: Collins Crime Club, 1938. First edition, sixth printing. Paperback. Near fine in a very good dust-wrapper . Scarce in wrapper. £10
	Footner, Hulbert. MURDER OF A BAD MAN. London: Collins Crime Club, 1939. First edition, fifth printing. Paperback. Near fine in d/w. Scarce in wrapper. £12
	Forester, C.S. GOLD FROM CRETE. London: Micheal Joseph, 1971. First edition. Very good plus to near fine in dust-wrapper (slight, faint foxing to verso of wrapper). Short stories. £15
	Francis, Dick. IN THE FRAME. London: Michael Joseph, 1976. First edition. Inscribed by the author to the front free endpaper: "December '76 / Dick & June / Love and very best / wishes for Christmas - / and afterwards. / Dick Francis." Very good plus to near fine in dust-wrapper (faint foxing to page edges). £38
	Francis, Dick. REFLEX. London: Michael Joseph, 1980. First edition. Very good in dust-wrapper (ghost impression of old price to front free endpaper). £12
	Fraser, Antonia. QUIET AS A NUN. London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1977. First edition. Near fine in dust-wrapper. The first Jemima Shore mystery. £15
	Fraser, George Macdonald. FLASH FOR FREEDOM. London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1971. First edition. Near fine in dust-wrapper (tiny abrasion to title; copyright date and border on rear endpaper map highlighted). Aside from the curious flaws an excellent copy in a superb dust-wrapper, the spine of which is completely unfaded. £60
	Freeman, R. Austin. THE GREAT PORTRAIT MYSTERY. London: Hodder & Stoughton, no date [1918]. First edition. No d/w. Scarce short story collection, not published in the US. Comprises seven stories, two of which feature Thorndyke. Good plus or better (cloth somewhat rubbed and dusty, worn at spine ends; cheap war-time paper tanned; internal hinges cracked but firm; previous owner's pencil name to front free endpaper; tiny previous owner's book-ticket to pastedown). We had a rebound copy of this title about ten years ago; this is the first we have listed in the original cloth. £100
	Freeman, R. Austin. THE STONEWARE MONKEY. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1938. First edition. No d/w. Very good (cloth slightly rubbed; two previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown, the first being Adrian Homer Goldstone's). £35
	Fyfield, Frances. PERFECTLY PURE AND GOOD. London: Bantam Press, 1994. First edition. Near fine in dust-wrapper (slightly bumped to corners). Signed by the author on the title page. £12
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