Berkeley Anthony a B Cox (20 results)

Softcover. Condition: Poor. Reprint. Reading copy, tatty paperback, binding shaken, spine creased and split, card covers creased and grubby, pages age tanned, name on half title page and some scribble on title page and in text. 214 pages.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Eight short mysteries, with two appendices by Cox/Berkeley and a checklist of the Sheringham and Moresby mysteries, 188 pages. Foxing to the interior of the jacket, with the upper edges of the flaps lightly tanned, in Brodart.

Softcover. Condition: Fair. First Paperback Edition. Reading copy, tatty paperback, spine creased and split with small area of loss at base, card covers creased and grubby, page edges age tanned, no inscriptions. 214 pages. Penguin mystery and crime no. 591.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Roger Sheringham investigates the apparent suicide of a woman found hanging by her stockings. Early reprint. Bumped with a touch of wear at the corners and fraying to the spine ends. Binding square, hinges just beginning to crack.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. For the first time Roger Sheringham finds himself a suspect. Early reprint. Bumped and rubbed with wear at the edges, rear end paper has been repaired. Jacket has been glued to a stiff paper backing with the flaps glued to the pastedowns. Torn and edgeworn with large chips, a couple of pieces of old tape on the spine.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Roger Sheringham investigates the apparent suicide of a woman found hanging by her stockings. Bumped and rubbed, hinges a bit loose with the binding just beginning to crack.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Roger Sheringham investigates what at first appears to be a hunting accident. Berkeley (Cox) edges away from the plot focused whodunit to examining the motivation of the murderer. First U.S. edition. Bumped with rubbing at the corners, short tears to the spine heel, and 1/4" loss to the spine head. Binding cracked at page 16.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A man is found shot in his library, with the doors and windows locked from the inside, and a suicide note. Adey 159. Undated early reprint of the first Roger Sheringham mystery, originally published anonymously by Jenkins in 1925. Blue boards with bright red print, lightly bumped with a touch of rubbing at the tips. Rear hinge just slightly loose, previous owner's name (Helen Read) on the front end paper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Douglas Sewell investigates the murder of a friend who had been poisoned with arsenic. First U.S. edition, British title "Not to be Taken." Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges. Rear hinge cracked, front a bit loose. British title written in ink on the title page. Date in pencil on the front end paper.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Roger Sheringham attends a party at which a thoroughly disagreeable woman apparently commits suicide. His poking around raises suspicions of murder, and he becomes the prime suspect. Early reprint. With a four page biography of Sheringham preceding the first chapter. Ex-library with a stamp to the upper edge of the text block and scuffs to the lower spine where a sticker was apparently removed. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges. Hinges have been reglued, front end paper removed. Ex-Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. First U.S. edition, published in England as "Mr. Priestley's Problem." It began with an arguement: How would a respectable, ordinary man behave if he thought he'd committed a murder? Ex-library with stamps to the rear pastedown. Yellow, soiled boards with black print and a beverage ring on the front. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges. Spine darkened, 2" tear up the lower front spine fold with the remnants of brown tape across. Hinges cracked, rear breaking, binding loose, page 335 detached and laid in. Jacket blurb glued to the front end paper. Still, a very scarce first edition. Ex-Library.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Roger Sheringham investigates when the body of a woman is found buried under a basement floor, nude but for a pair of gloves. First edition stated. Bumped with light wear at the corners and spine ends, spine very slightly sunned. Previous owner's name and address stamped on the front pastedown, binding square and solid. Jacket lightly rubbed with small chips and tears, price intact, in Brodart.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Ambrose Chitterwick witnesses the death of a lady just after her nephew had dropped something in her coffee. Chitterwick's role as the star witness is complicated by the fact that he thinks the nephew is innocent. First U.S. edition. Gently bumped with the slightest bit of wear at the corners and spine ends. Red upper edges of the text block a bit faded. Binding square and solid.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. The evidence is overwhelming that Mrs. Bentley poisoned her husband, but Roger Sheringham is not convinced. Undated early reprint, first published in 1926. Bumped with a bit of wear at the corners and spine ends. Three tiny drip marks on the fore edge of the text block. Binding square and solid, previous owner's name stamped on the front end papers. Original publication dates (1926, 1930) in ink on the title page. Jacket gently rubbed, spine a bit darkened, with light wear at the edges, in Brodart.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The scarce first U.S. edition of the second Roger Sheringham mystery. Bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the corners and short tears to the spine head. Spine lightly sunned, hinges loose. Pages tanned with pencil scribbles on the front free end paper, a small sticker scuff on the front pastedown, and a light drip mark on the rear end papers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

First Edition. JUGGED JOURNALISM, Herbert Jenkins, 1925, first edition, 5 leaves missing a small chip at the fore edge margin nowhere near the text, t.p.e.'s a bit age toned, else a very bright, vg+/near fine copy in the publishers original green cloth in a vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and soil and professional reinforcement to the inner rear dust-wrapper spine hinge. Illustrated by George Barrow. Many of these humorous essays were first published in Punch the year previously. Three titles were published of Anthony Berkeley in 1925; this one, another under the pseudonym of A.B. Cox entitled BRENDA ENTERTAINS and THE LAYTON COURT MYSTERY, which was released anonymously.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Herbert Jenkins Limited 1925. First UK Edition. Octavo. 280, [8, ads]. Frontispiece and thirty-one additional inserted plates by George Morrow. Publisher's green cloth, stamped in dark green. A slightly darkened spine, a touch of wear at the top right hand corner of the spin, a former owner's neat name to the front free end-paper which is creased. In the RARE D/W pricedv7/6 net to the spine as called for. The D/W is a solid near fine example with just a hint of darkening to the spine and with a reduced price (1/-) sticker to the front panel. In our experience, these stickers are removable but tend to leave a lighter patch underneath. A nice copy. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. COX, A. B. (Anthony Berkeley). THE AMATEUR CRIME. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. 1928. First Edition of this extremely scarce Hubin listed classic Golden Age mystery by this author best known for his works written under the names Anthony Berkeley and Francis Iles including, 'The Poisoned Chocolates Case' and 'Malice Aforethought'. 8vo. 349 pp. A very good or better copy in yellow cloth, black titles to spine, in a nearly Very Good dust jacket, shallow chips to spine ends and top edge, half dollar sized chip at lower front panel, modest darkening to spine, inch closed tear at top rear panel. Published in the U.K. as, 'Mr. Priestley's Problem'. Barzun & Taylor, A Catalogue Of Crime. Pronzini & Muller, 1001 Midnights. $850.00.

FIRST EDITION, publisher's slip tipped in at rear 'To the Reader' (exhorting them to spread positive notice of the work through word-of-mouth), a couple of tiny spots at foot of half-title and the odd spot to border within, pp. 289, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in black, edges spotted with a few spots to endpapers, dustjacket price-clipped with some very light handling and the odd miniscule nick, very good. Rather a scarce book. The author was by then well-established as a detective novelist under the pseudonyms 'Francis Iles' and 'Anthony Berkeley', but Hamish Hamilton - then a young publisher - probably anticipated the likely readership for this book to be a little smaller: it is, the author confesses, 'written in indignation' and addresses itself to 'the ordinary citizen' in decrying the state of the nation at a time of crisis throughout Europe (Cox considers the character of Communism and Fascism, 'simple-souled twins' with 'at least one arm in common'). As often, the analysis seems to all-too-current in respect of its assessment of our political parties and the behaviour of our politicians, who are characterised by 'timidity', 'incompetence' and 'petty dishonesty': 'The Roman Emperors knew that, if they did not keep their plebs happy, they would lose their jobs, and probably their heads. Our Pollies are not afraid even of losing their seats'. Throughout his literary career, Cox wrote journalism and published collections of his work in that area, generally of a light and humorous variety - the present critique is distinguished from these by its earnest tone, though it is far from dry and full of the wit and brio that characterises his writing generally.

First Edition. Extremely scarce Hubin listed mystery by this author best known for his works written under the name Anthony Berkeley, which include, The Poisoned Chocolates Case and Malice Aforethought. Very Good to Near Fine, in nearly Very Good dustjacket, shallow chips to spine ends and top edge, half dollar sized chip at lower front panel, modest darkening to spine, inch closed tear at top rear panel.