C Fraser Simson (14 results)

Condition: Good. 1934. Third Edition. 217 pages. No dust jacket. Paper covered boards. Clean pages with mild tanning and foxing throughout, heavy to endpapers. Faint thumb-marking throughout. Pencil inscription to front endpaper. Notable cracking to gutters, with exposed binding. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Mild sunning to spine, which has mild crushing and wear to ends. Notable scratching and marking to boards. Book has forward lean. Boards are mildly warped. Mild water stains and droplets to surfaces.…

HARD BACK YELLOW. Condition: FAIR. General wear: bookplate, foxing, ragged page ends. page 23/24 loose, previous owner markings and food stains DATE PUBLISHED: 1927 EDITION: 241.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Wear to spine ends and corners. Yellow cloth covers lightly soiled. Front endpaper has pencil scribblings -- erased by still visible. Read endpaper has ink drawing / scribbling. Contents clean and binding tight. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 241 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Includes dust jacket. Wear and tear to the jacket. Price has been clipped. Pages are tanned.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. The book appears to have been in some kind of lending library although there are no stamps or labels on it. The front panel of the boards has a four inch by two inch patch of label residue at the bottom and a few light stains. The spine has some edge rubbing and fraying at the top and bottom and there is rubbing and fraying to the corners. There is some discolouration to the rear panel. Page edges browned with some spotting. The front free-endpapers has been stuck to the front pastedown. Some of the pages have ragged edges with small pieces missing where they have been separated roughly and there is a little spotting and staining here and there but the pages are generally unmarked. No jacket. First printing.…

Orig.-Broschur, 201 Seiten. Aus der Reihe:"Georg Müller Kriminalromane". Umschlag vonPpaul Neu. Umschlag angestaubt. Rücken mit Fehlstelle. Buchblock schief.

Condition: Good. 3rd edition. Light wear to boards. Light toning to pages with some spotting. DJ has edge wear, faded spine and some marks.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Third Edition. Third edition of a novel first published in August 1926 and then in a second cheaper edition in July 1930. Some rubbing to the edges of the boards with a little at the top and bottom of the spine and the corners. One small stain near the centre of the rear panel. Page edges browned with a little spotting. Endpapers browned with some spotting to the front endpapers but the pages are otherwise unmarked. The jacket has a three inch by two inch triangular piece missing from the bottom of the rear panel. The spine has a half-inch piece missing at the top and there is some chipping at the corners and some rubbing to the edges.…

8vo., First Edition, with front endpaper map, contemporary signature on title, some light and occasional spotting; grey-green cloth, upper board framed and lettered in black, backstrip lettered in black, uncut, a very good, bright, clean copy. SCARCE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo. 101 pages. Publisher's green cloth with black titles to spine and upper board and Golly Smith motif to upper board. Pictorial dust-jacket, which has not been price clipped, 9s. 6d. Jacket and line drawings in text by Maurice Wilson. Boards very lightly rubbed. Jacket is beautiful with moderate soiling to rear panel. Contains three tales of Golly Smith. A very nice copy of a scarce title.…

Reprint Edition. M. B. K. dustjacket art. Mystery novel of a feud between two officials of the London Home Office, "one of them trying to ruin the other by a diabolical plot". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with shallow chipping at spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 128. Illustrations. Original cloth. The unclipped d/w has a tear to lower back panel/spine. Back panel soiled. Inscribed, dated and initialed by the author. Wilson, Maurice (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp 101. Illustrations. Original cloth. The unclipped d/w has a short tear top front panel and is spotted, otherwise d/w fine. Inscribed, dated and initialed by the author. Wilson, Maurice (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. "A racing motor drive by night down to an empty house. A masked man, and a murder." (jacket blurb). Minor bumping to boards, otherwise very good; jacket with edge wear, chipped at spine ends and fore corners with some minor loss. Book.…