Barbara Heygate (4 results)

Condition: Good. No edition remarks. 256 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are moderately tanned with heavy foxing. Notable cracking to gutters, however binding remains firm. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper. Mild thumb-marking present. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Notable sunning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to boards. Book has forward lean.

Condition: Fair. 1939. First Edition. 219 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Green cloth with black lettering to spine. Formerly of Drummond's Lending Library, Hawick, with expected inserts, stamps and marks. In the Silver Star Library series with its logo on front board. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters heavily cracked with exposed netting; feels slightly shaky. Foxing and tanning more noticeable towards start and end of book and on text block edges. Traces of library plates to FEP and pastedown. A few dog-eared corners. Library stamp to first page of chapter 1. Sporadic mild marks within. Block edges very foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards rather rubbed and marked overall. Mild dust stains and other marks (predominantly to spine). Boards are notably bowed. Book has an intense forward lean. Slight denting to edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 250pp. HARDCOVER Very clean copy inside & out. No inscriptions. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. **Very scarce title. Size: 12mo - over 63/4" - 73/4" tall. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The very scarce first edition of this exciting murder mystery by Barbara Hepgate, in the original illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition of this very scarce work.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A thrilling murder mystery, following Miriam Blake as she meets the man her sister is supposed to marry. As soon as she sees this man she believes he is the Sabbath Slayer, a homicidal maniac, who murders a young woman every Sunday. Sure enough, Miriam's sister is found murdered on her wedding night, but Miriam cannot help being pulled into the Slayer's web.By Barbara Heygate, her other works include 'Loving Dangerously', 'Unholy Wedlock', 'Forbidden Honeymoon', and 'Unless a Child is Born -'. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A little fading and bumping to the head and tail of the spine and to the extremities. Some spots to the fore edge and endpapers. Dust wrapper is edge worn with small chips. Minor marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.