Cecil Rhode (82 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Aug, 1954, pp. 195-205, Profusely Illus with Color Photos, Extracted from orig vol, begins with title page, trimmed & stapled, thus is like a pamphlet, VG.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Reprint, first published in England in 1933 as The Claverton Mystery. Dr. Priestly investigates when an old friend suddenly dies. Pages tanned.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Cecil Rhode (inscribed (illustrator). Signed by Author and Photograp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Popular Library 87, first paperback printing. A publisher is shot in his private elevator as he descends alone. U.S. title, published in England in 1939 as Drop to His Death. Light wear at the edges with a 1/4" chip to the spine head. Pages tanned, crease to the lower corner of the first couple of pages with the letter "N" on the front end paper.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good with no dust jacket. Supplement map of northern Europe is present, tanned, folded, laid in. Sound binding. Wrappers are yellow and white with general soiling and light shelf wear. Pages clean, off-white. ; Contents: Moran, Stop-and-go sail around south Norway. Rhode, When giant Alaskan bears go fishing. Revis, Colorado by car and campfire. Shor, North with Finland's Lapps. Peterson, A new bird immigrant arrives. Many advertisements. ; 10.0" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Dr. Priestly investigates when a doctor is poisoned in an apparently impossible crime. Adey 1595. First Perennial printing. Very gently handled, pages tanned.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Third Impression. Third impression from June 1942 of a book first published by Faber in September 1939 and reprinted in 1941. The spine is darkened with a crease across it and there is light staining to the front panel with heavier staining to the rear panel. Bumping to the corners. Browning and scattered spotting to the page edges. The binding is slack and there are gaps at the front and back of the book where the webbing is exposed. Spotting to the endpapers. Heavy creasing to the half-title page with a brown spot to the title page. Light browning to the pages with a few spots and light marks in places. No jacket.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Steinberg, I.N. (illustrator). First Printing. First printing. Vintage Paperback, Avon #21, I.N. Steinberg cover illustration. Foreward by John Rhode and an introduction by A.A. Milne. 20 stories from Golden Age authors: Agatha Christie, Carter Dickson, R.Austin Freeman, Dorothy Sayers, E.C. Bently et al.368 pages. Book.

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 12 Pages, many illustrations, some in colour. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Light page tanning, a little foxing to edges, else internally in very good condition; cover has slight wear and foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 192 S., gepr. OHLn. m. zahlr. gez. Ill.; einige Ss. leicht knickspurig, wenig fleckig. - In Fraktur. Kriminalroman um Kokain und Liebe. Übersetzung von Wilh[elm] Cremer (1874 - 1932). Zuerst 1925: ğA.S.F. - Der Weg ins Traumland.Ğ, englische OA 1924: ğA.S.F. - The Story of a Great Conspiracy.Ğ - (ZwSt).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG illustrated wraps softcover. Signed with inscription on front cover by Rhode and signed with generic inscription on first page by Taber. Photos of various hunts. 96pp. Hunting. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Second Printing. A very tatty reading copy, probably ex private library, grubby boards rubbed and marked, front board pulled, endpaper and half title page excised, pastedowns stained with dates written on rear pastedown. 192 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition( so stated). Who was the Funny Toff, the terror alike of criminals and Scotland Yard? A NEAR FINE book (small book seller's stamp to front paste down and rear free end paper) in NEAR FINE ( rubbing at corners and one small closed tear to base of rear jacket panel) jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. First edition .Near Fine book in a Very Good + jacket ( light shallow chipping to spine ends). Black cloth boards stamped in green. Nice example of the art deco style "Gene" illustrated jacket ! ** See our new cheaper postal rates to the USA and abroad.**.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper else a NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD PLUS jacket with rubbing , some creasing and light soil to jacket; no chipping. Terrific cover art by H.A. Peace !

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Lacks jacket. Deaccessioned copy of Auburn Circulating Library, with their name crossed out and remnants of a removed cover on endpapers. Edges and front/end matter foxed, rear endpaper excised causing cut to portion of final text page, ink name (Edith F. Dulles, of the Dulles/Lansing family) and portion of absent jacket on front endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. 298 pp. The third book in the Dr. Lancelot Priestley series. A pseudonymous crime novel by Cecil John Charles Street, a British army major turned writer who became one of the most popular authors of the Golden Age of Crime. Sir Noel Ellerby is recalled by his butler to his Lincolnshire mansion, Laxford Hall, after thieves break-in. Oddly, nothing appears to have been stolen. The following morning Sir Noel is found lying dead before the open door of his safe. The physician called to examine the body declares that death was due to heart failure but Scotland Yard thinks differently. Stumped as to motive and manner of the crime, Inspector Hanslet engages the assistance of Sir Noel's old friend, Dr Lancelot Priestley, and that relentless interrogator loses no time in bringing into play his peculiar powers of logical scientific reasoning.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition of a title published first in the U.K. as "Dr. Goodwood's Locum". A NEAR FINE copy ( bumped at the corners) in a VERY GOOD + jacket. A PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED , DATED and SIGNED on the front free endpaper in the author's tiny hand." For, R.W. Gibb, In happy memory of the M.V. Bualbeck ( ?) June -July 1952. John Rhode." A VERY SCARCE AUTOGRAPH probably inscribed to a fellow passenger on a cruise in Europe . M.V. is a short form for a cruise ship used on inland waterways .There appear to be very few instances where the author has autographed anything. No examples of his use of Miles Burton , Cecil Waye or Cecil John Charles Street! Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Albatross 105. Dr. Priestley investigates when two people are killed in an auto race. Scarce, one of the first batch of Albatross mysteries published. Rubbed with loss to the corners and the lower half of the spine missing. 1/2" loss to the spine head with tape repair. Pages tanned, previous owner's name in pencil on the title page, date 22/12/41.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback bound in faded red cloth with black titles, boards marked and stained with wear at edges, spine sunned, page edges foxed, bookseller/library stamp on front endpapers + 485 on front endpaper, corner of pages 25/26 torn off but text not effected. 288 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. One of the last Lancelot Priestley novels by this prolific writer. A good copy in rather worn jacket with some minor loss. One of the last Lancelot Priestley novels by this prolific writer. Book.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 30 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Owner's neat ink name on front pastedown, dated in year of publication. Binding modestly cocked with the spine toned, page edges and preliminary and terminal leaves with some foxing, very good in an about very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears, a slightly larger L-shaped tear on the soiled rear panel, and two internal reinforcements. Cecil John Charles Street also wrote under the pseudonym Miles Burton. Hubin, *Crime Fiction*, p.334.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with green lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 286pp. Pictorial endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (32/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 257 pp. light wear to cover.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 30.

Hardcover. First US Edition. Published in the UK as Pinehurst. 278pp. Orange cloth stamped in black on the front and the spine, decorated endpapers. Tiny bookstore label on front free endpaper. A couple of small spots to cloth, light toning to spine panel. A bright very good+ copy. In Hubin, 2003, p. 1266. ; Octavo.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; [8],294pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine slightly cocked, faint ring stains to upper cover, latter half of textblock toned (evidently the printer used two batches of stock of varying quality), else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. A locked room murder, the room in this case the victim's niece's bathroom. Forms part of the author's popular series of novels featuring the armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Third Printing. Reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers. black boards with red titles, binding shaken, boards pulled at pages 96/97 & 192/193, boards marked and worn, page edges grubby. 251 pages + 5 pages of publisher's adverts.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers. library binding, boards bumped at corners, page edges tanned, pencil scribble on endpapers. 192 pages.