Illustrated with drawings by Bert Kitchen, octavo, pp xxx, 146, very clean internally, black cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is just very slightly worn, with a small closed tear on its lower cover.. View More...
First edition. Octavo, pp (2), 312, very clean internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, and is just vey slightly creased along the top edge. A very good copy with full number sequence - 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1. ["On a cold Sunday morning, ex-copper Ray Flowers has little more to worry about than tackling the unwieldy honeysuckle in his garden. But his weekend peace is suddenly interrupted by an unexpected phone call. Martin Galloway, Ray's old colleague, has become emotionally involved in one of his cases. Three years ago, Damien Pinsent fell into a co... View More...
8vo, pp 452 (16 pages of Cassells publications), navy cloth with bevelled edge has slight wear, gilt lettering on spine, corners slightly rubbed, spine slightly sunned, hinges cracked, top edge gilt, bookplate of A.B. Raffle on front paste down endpaper, small hole on front free endpaper, partially erased inscription on half-title, slightly dusty, slight foxing on the fore-edge. View More...
First edition. Small octavo, pp 282, the top edge and fore-edge rather heavily foxed, endpapers unevenly age-toned, otherwise clean and sound internally, blue cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is age-toned on the foldover flaps and unevenly age-toned on its lower cover, just slightly worn and marked generally. [With a contemporary book review loosely inserted. The dustwrapper is designed by Biro.] View More...
First edition. Small octavo, pp 191, very clean internally, red cloth slightly faded at head and tail of spine otherwise very good; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped, it is very slightly worn along the margins, the fore-edge fold is cracking with slight loss of surface, the spine is faded with slight fading over to the upper cover. View More...
Small octavo, pp 255, fore-edge a little age-toned and foxed, otherwise clean internally, red cloth slightly faded, the spine with a vertical crease; the dustwrapper is not price-clipped but is a little frayed at the margins, the lower cover a little soiled. View More...
Small octavo, pp xii, 322, a very good copy in dustwrapper showing only very slight signs of use. [A murder mystery novel set in a European garden tour]. View More...
Octavo, pp 252, very clean internally, green cloth in good condition, the dustwrapper is price-clipped and very slightly used, the foldover flaps are a little age-toned, it is now protected in a removable clear film. View More...
New and revised edition. Illustrated with 4 tipped-in colour plates by Mary G.W. Wilson, small octavo, pp (4), 178, edges uncut, very slight age-toning otherwise very good internally, white and grey printed boards, slightly marked and worn. [Four fictional essays - The Haunted Garden, The Old-Fashioned garden, The Poor Man's Garden, The Rich Man's Garden.] View More...
Tower Books edition, first printing 1948 - the first hardback edition ? Slim octavo, pp 123, age-toned, otherwise clean and sound internally, blue cloth slightly rubbed at the extrmities, the dustwrapper is a little worn and rubbed, with slight loss at the corner and the head and tail of its spine. View More...
[A Fingerprint Book]. Octavo, pp 223, slightly age-toned, a signature on the front endpaper, otherwise clean internally, grey cloth very slightly worn, the corners very lightly bumped, the dustwrapper is lsightly age-toned and slightly worn, price-clipped by the publisher with a £3.50 price label added. [Notable for its removal of Marlowe from his usual Los Angeles environs for much of the book, the novel's complicated plot initially deals with the case of a missing woman in a small mountain town some 80 miles (130 km) from the city. The book was written shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbo... View More...
Small octavo, pp 208, very clean internally, blue cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper (by Broom Lynne) is price-clipped, slightly rubbed around the edges, the lower cover slightly age-toned. Overall a very pleasing copy. View More...
[Le Grand Livre de Mois]. pp 292, a good copy in a dustwrapper which is slightly browned and very slightly worn. [Le Grand Livre du Mois]. View More...
Second impression. Octavo, pp 156, extremely clean internally, red cloth very slightly bowed but otherwise very good, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped (21/-), and has only slight signs of wear. View More...
Octavo, pp 216, a slight suggestion of foxing to the fore-edge, a bit age-toned but otherwise extremely clean and sound internally, half-cloth and marbled boards in very good condition. [Limited edition of 150 numbered copies, signed by the author.].{Catherine Hillery, recently widowed and a biographer of modest attainments is pleased to be asked to write the authorised life of Neil Campion, a politician of the 1930s, now dead. With the apparent approval of the Campion family she begins to investigate the life and early death of this once promising public man. It soon appears that someone else... View More...
Octavo, pp (6), 306, very clean internally, black cloth-backed boards very good, the dustwrapper is a little rubbed at the margins and the corners. View More...
Second edition. Illustrated, small quarto, pp x, 341, a good copy in a a dustwrapper which is a little creased and wrinkled along the top edge. [The standard work] View More...
Small octavo, pp 260, clean and sound internally, blue cloth very slightly marked, the dustwrappe is price-clipped, a bit worn and creased with several tiny pieces missing, stretched but now preserved in a removable clear cover. View More...
First UK edition. Large octavo, pp viii, 376, age-toned around the margins, otherwise very clean and sound internally, black cloth in very good condition, the dustwrapper is not price-clipped and has only very slight signs of use. [Louis de Bernières' magical, tragic and hilarious South American odyssey. When the spoilt and haughty Dona Constanza tries to divert a river to fill her swimming pool, she starts a running battle with the locals. The skirmishes are so severe that the Government dispatches a squadron of soldiers led by the fat, brutal and stupid Figueras to deal with them. Despite vi... View More...
pp 316, slightly age-toned, endpapers slightly foxed, otherwise a good copy in a slightly worn dustwrapper which is slightly torn at the spine head and slightly wrinkled on its lower cover. [From the library of the naturalist and conservationist Richard Fitter, with a presentation inscription from the author, and a brief note on a loosely inserted card.] View More...
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