Lorac, E C R Edith Caroline Rivett (23 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book Club Edition. Doubleday and Company, Garden City, NY. 1953. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the FFFP. Book Condition: Very Good; light bumping and shelfwear to head, tail, and tips; slight spine roll. DJ: Good; light sunfading to spine; shelfwear and missing small pieces at head, tail, and tips; wear to spine shoulders and flap folds. Green buckram over boards and spine with light blue lettering on the spine. Green tinted textblock top. Clean internals. Inner hinges are sound and not split. 189 pp 8vo. "Never make trouble in the village" is an unspoken law, but it's a binding law. You may know about your neighbors' sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It'd make trouble, and small societies want to avoid trouble.' When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets - envy, hatred and malice. A few months after the Ferens' arrival, the body of Sister Monica, warden of the local children's home, is found floating in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.

1st ed. thus pictorial wrappers Near Fine octavo 160pp., Originally published 1945.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG-. Reprint. Undated [c.1950]. A White Circle Crime Club. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & a little creased, fraying at spine ends, paperstock slightly toned, else internally clean); pp. 192. A very good copy of an uncommon novel.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. A White Circle Pocket Edition. No. 204. 191, [1] p. 18 cm. Paperback. Light wear to extremities. Some soiling. Dampstains. Pink text block edges have "bled" a bit onto margins. Paper browning. "Lorac" was an anagram for "Carol." The mystery features Chief Inspector Macdonald.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. 1Ş Edición. LORAC. E.C. R. (Edith Caroline Rivett (1884-1959) ASESINATO EN EL MOLINO (MURDER IN THE MILL RACE). ED. ZIG- ZAG CHILE .SERIE EL SABUESO. 1953 1° ED.COLECCCIÓN. BIBLIOTECA DE NOVELISTAS . TRADUCTOR: G. GARIAZZO.246 PP, cubiertas ilustradas, muy buen estado. Edith Caroline Rivett (1884-1959) (la cual escribió con los seudónimos de E.C.R. Lorac y Carol Carnac) fue una escritora británica de narraciones de misterio. Nació en Hendon, Middlesex (actualmente parte de Londres). Se educó en la South Hampstead High School y en la Central School of Arts and Crafts de Londres. Fue miembro del Detection Club. Fue una escritora muy prolífica, con un total de 48 obras de misterio bajo su primer nombre literario, y otras 23 con el segundo. Fue uno de los más importantes autores de la edad dorada del género. NOVELA MISTERIO- POLICIAL. VID 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price; owner's name; 284 clean, unmarked pages , in mylar; red c w/black spine titles; 256 clean, unmarked, bright pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. first edition 1941 Collins Crime Club paperback volume 150c,in good well read condition. some shelf wear on the spine and edges, some discoloration on cover and edges, 160 pages, 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Inspector Macdonald investigates a suspicious death in a rural village involving a local doctor. A classic fair-play mystery from one of the most underappreciated Golden Age authors.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. One in a popular series of mysteries published under this pseudonym by British crime writer Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958). This was only the 5th book in her most well-known series featuring Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald (which she would write across the next quarter century). First published in Great Britain in 1946 under the title, "The Theft of the Iron Dogs,'' this is the First US Edition from 1947, which is decidedly more scarce! 12mo, 286 pages, with gray cloth over boards lettered in blue to front & spine. Condition is just Good: generally clean with offsetting & old tape marks to endpapers/both boards, from where DJ was attached to book. Spine cracked at title page, pages moderately tanned, unmarked save for remnants of old homemade library slip in rear. Light soil, some foxing, rubbing to extremities, bumped corners & spine tips. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.00 price intact to front flap) is Near Fine, having been protected under mylar, which has been carefully removed & replaced with new nonreflective mylar cover. Tiny chip to heel of spine is only flaw! would grow to include books). . Orig. published in Britain (though not noted here), this is the First American Edition, First printing for the Crime Club by Doubleday from 1950. With matte black cloth-covered boards lettered in white to spine, this hardcover small 8vo is in VG+ condition: very clean, binding straight & strong, very little edgewear save or sight rubbing to spine tips & all corners. Pages are heavily tanned, particularly around edges. Former owner's name & date in pen inside front cover, else, unmarked. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.25 price intact) is VG, with minor rubbing to extremities & a small chip to lower edge of back cover. Protected by former owner in nonreflective mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. One in a popular series of mysteries published under this pseudonym by British crime writer Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958). This was book #33 in her most well-known series featuring Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald. Orig. published in Britain (though not noted here), this is the First American Edition, First printing for the Crime Club by Doubleday from 1950. With matte black cloth-covered boards lettered in white to spine, this hardcover small 8vo is in VG+ condition: very clean, binding straight & strong, very little edgewear save or sight rubbing to spine tips & all corners. Pages are heavily tanned, particularly around edges. Former owner's name & date in pen inside front cover, else, unmarked. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.25 price intact) is VG, with minor rubbing to extremities & a small chip to lower edge of back cover. Protected by former owner in nonreflective mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Book Club Edition. Vintage book club edition. Minor tanning to the endsheets, else near fine in red boards; in a near fine dust jacket with a short closed tear to the front panel, and the front flap has been clipped at the lower edge. The thirty-ninth well-plotted mystery featuring Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald, the 'London Scot' of the Scotland Yard, by the critically acclaimed Golden Age Detective author of BATS IN THE BELFRY, CROSSED SKIS, and CHECKMATE TO MURDER. This mystery uses the historical thick and oppressive London Smog of 1952 for its crime concealing plot, and murder at Paddington Station. An excellent copy of this classic mystery.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, second printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in gilt to spine, binding likely a secondary binding. Dust-jacket designed by J Z Anderson, with printed price of 4s. 6d. net to front flap. Textblock toned, some spotting to top edge. Cloth a little rubbed. Dust-jacket shows well, some spotting, chips, tears and creases. Very good. A death occurs in rural Lancashire during the Second World War, Inspector MacDonald of the Yard investigates.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. Scarce title. No dust jacket. A few small marks to the boards. A tan to the page edges. Ex library copy with usual stamps & stickers. Half title page missing. Contents otherwise clear and firm within. A good condition book overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine dj. Reprint. [no significant shelfwear, but with a handful of diagonally-creased upper page corners, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase and brief comment written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap); the jacket itself is very nice, with just a bit of abrasion at the spine ends]. Reprint of this Inspector MacDonald mystery, originally published by Collins in 1955. "An elderly lady, whose appearance gave her an Edwardian dignity, reported to the St. John's Wood police that her nephew had disappeared. At first it seemed that this was just a routine investigation, but a chance clue reveals that the police are faced with a case of murder. The nephew, Keith McAmboine, was an Australian journalist and, when enquiries in Fleet Street were followed by serious accidents to two of the few potential witnesses, it was obvious that the murderer was both dangerously active and well informed." Most of the works of this prolific mystery author, who also wrote as "Carol Carnac," remained out of print between her death in 1958 and the early 2020s, when a number of her books (as both Lorac and Carnac) -- not including this one -- were reprinted in the British Library Crime Classics series.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6. In post-war Lancashire, Chief Inspector MacDonald investigates what begins as the odd theft of two iron andirons and other items from a farmer's cottage. Attractive armorial bookplate to front pastedown; cloth slightly bumped around top edge; jacket with some rubbing and minor creasing, but overall very good. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. (White Circle 285c). [moderately worn, encased in a plastic protective cover (as received, and which I've opted to leave in place, especially since it's taped to the book's inside front cover); previous seller's large business card affixed to inside front cover, one-time owner's ink notes on inside rear cover]. (A White Circle Crime Club) Series Mass Market PB Undated paperback reprint of this Lorac novel, originally published by Collins in 1954. A fairly late entry in this author's long-running series of Inspector MacDonald mysteries (she died in 1958), this deals with two young couples who to "escape from their drab and squalid London lodgings," take up residence in The Old Court House in Devon; attracted by its cheap rent, they are initially disdainful of its "mystery and sinister past" -- but then they discover a dead body in one of the outbuildings. The works of this prolific mystery author, who also wrote as "Carol Carnac," remained largely out of print between her death in 1958 and the early 2020s, when a number of her books (as both Lorac and Carnac) were reprinted in the British Library Crime Classics series. This is evidently one of her scarcest titles, with no copies of any edition listed online at the time of this listing. This book bears no publication or copyright date, although its catalog number (285c) marks it as one of the final dozen or so titles issued in the White Circle series, which ended in 1959.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dj. First Edition. (price-clipped) [minor shelfwear, light foxing/staining to endpapers, one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase and brief comment written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap); the jacket shows some wear at the extremities, wrinkling and soiling on the rear panel]. The final book by this prolific mystery writer (published the year after her death), the last entry in her long-running series of Inspector MacDonald mysteries. "When Superintendant MacDonald visited Fellcock Farm, bought against the day of his retirement, he put all thoughts of crime and criminals out of his head. But even there, high the fell country above Lunesdale, he was forced to face again the fact that a policeman is never off duty. The discovery of a dead body in the deserted house at High Garth set him to unravel a fascinating and baffling case and put him on to a trail which led him from the fells to Dartmoor and to a figure in prison uniform vanishing into the mist." Published in the U.S. as "The Last Escape." Most of the works of this author, who also wrote as "Carol Carnac," remained out of print between her death in 1958 and the early 2020s, when a number of her books (as both Lorac and Carnac) -- not including this one -- were reprinted in the British Library Crime Classics series.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Bright red cloth boards with black text to spine; pictorial dust jacket. Includes a small advertising pamphlet titled Mystery Guild Clues, The January 1955 Selections published by the Dollar Mystery Guild. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light foxing to top edge of pages, otherwise bright and clean pages throughout. Soiling and small losses to dust jacket (see image). 221 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Chief Inspector Julian Rivers investigates murder & blackmail on the Welsh border. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners, tanned pages; jacket edgeworn, chipped & foxed with long tear to front panel, crease. Text clean, no names or marks; 190 pages. Size: Octavo.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. Two very scarce Crime Club first editions by E. C. R. Lorac, exemplary works of mid-century British police-procedural crime fiction. In the publisher's original cloth bindings.First editions.Two classic British police procedurals by E. C. R. Lorac, the principal pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett, featuring Lorac"s quietly authoritative Chief Inspector Macdonald.(1949) Policemen in the Precinct. This work depicts day-to-day police work within a Midlands town and focusing on collective investigation rather than a single puzzle solution. (1957) Dangerous Domicile. This novel centers on a murder within a shared house in North London, combining domestic tension with Macdonald"s methodical analysis of conflicting evidence and motive. In the publisher's original cloth bindings. Externally, smart. Slight rubbing and bumping to extremities. Slight fading to spines and extremities. Library stamps to front free endpaper of "Policemen." Previous owner's bookplate to front paste downs. One or two marks to rear boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean if slightly age toned with one or two spots to fore edge. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Very Good DJ. First edition. First American edition, very good black cloth hardcover shows mild rubbing at cover edges, rubbing and soil to cover near bottom edge, age toning to pages, name, date and ink stamp to front endpaper, along with some other mild trace wear, in very good - dust jacket (price at flap) that shows rubbing, soil, heavy soil at reverse, wrinkles and edgewear that includes closed tears and shallow open chipping (3/4 inches deep at spine tail) mainly at spine ends. 221 pages. Still a solid copy in jacket of this mystery featuring Inspector MacDonald from the noted British author of detective fiction that was first Published in the U.K. in 1949 under the title Policeman in the Precinct.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not Stated (illustrator). First edition. A bright example of the scarce and sought after first edition of this Chief Inspector MacDonald murder mystery by E. C. R. Lorac, the pseudonym of Edith Caroline Rivett. The scarce first edition, first impression of this work.In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A thrilling tale in which the body of a man is discovered at Paddington Station, dead as a result of a beating that took place during the Great Smog of London in 1952.This is the thirty-ninth of Edith Caroline Rivett's Chief Inspector Macdonald series. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Small loss to dust wrapper back strip tail, with major loss to tail of rear wrap. Light handling marks to rear wrap, with light edgewear to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, first printing. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 9s. 6d. net to front flap. Internally clean, toning to edges and endpapers, light spotting to edges, neat ownership in pen to pastedown. Cloth shows well, marginally sunned to spine. Dust-jacket shows very well, a couple of small closed tears to upper, small area of loss to top rear corner, red text to spine faded. An elusive title especially so in the dust-jacket. Very good. A boy just alighted from the Exeter to Paddington train is found murdered whilst still within the station, Chief Inspector MacDonald investigates.