Charles Rodda (62 results)

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR Hardcover. Minor wear to the covered dust jacket. Little cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding. ** WE SHIP DAILY (Mon-Fri) ** Free Tracking Information.

Soft cover. Condition: G to VG. First Edition By This Publisher.. 190 pages. "Ritzy Tyler is givenhis head in teh streamlined, chromium-plated efficiency of a famous dress house where more was going on than met the eye." Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Painted Cover Art. (illustrator). Book.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards with stains. Content has toned pages with marks to outer edge pages and inscription on ffep. Good DJ with chips/tears, marks, creasing and price clipped.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition edition. 184 pages. 7.87x5.28x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition edition. 200 pages. 7.87x5.28x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. g+/g+, mylar covered dj, ex-lib. stated first edition. FER; 14008.

Softcover. Condition: Poor. Reprint. Tatty paperback bound in creased card covers with old tape repairs at spine ends, spine creased, 13p on front cover, pages age tanned, no internal inscriptions. 256 pages. A Hodder yellow jacket.

Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New. Case studies explore how women's rights shape state responses to sex trafficking and show how politically empowering women can help prevent and combat human traffickingHuman trafficking for the sex trade is a form of modern-day slavery that ensnares thousands of victims each year, disproportionately affecting women and girls. While the international community has developed an impressive edifice of human rights law, these laws are not equally recognized or enforced by all countries. Sex Trafficking and Human Rights demonstrates that state responsiveness to human trafficking is shaped by the political, social, cultural, and economic rights afforded to women in that state. While combatting human trafficking is a multiscalar problem with a host of conflating variables, this book shows that a common theme in the effectiveness of state response is the degree to which women and girls are perceived as, and actually are, full citizens. By analyzing human trafficking cases in India, Thailand, Russia, Nigeria, and Brazil, they shed light on the factors that make some women and girls more susceptible to traffickers than others. This important book is both a call to understanding and a call to action: if the international community and state governments are to responsibly and effectively combat human trafficking, they must center the equality of women in national policy.…

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

hardback, 238pp, page edges browned, a nuber written on front endpaper, text clean and sound, Good condition in slightly rubbed dustwrapper, not orice-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition internally very clean & bright no name but a buy date of 1946, text block top edge darkened with shelflife only unmarked cloth boards with fine white titles, D/j unclipped good only with rubbing to edges & a little loss top/tail of spine but protected with cello sleeve - Guaranteed posting 24hrs from Cornwall ST209.…

Maroon hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in Good condition without dust jacket. Cover spotted. Spine faded. Spine lean. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 238pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. by [Percival] Charles [Holtzman] Rodda. London: James Barrie, 1949. First edition, first printing. "First printed in 1949" statement to the copyright page, 1949 printed to the title page, and 7s. 6d. net to the jacket's flap. Rodda co-wrote five mystery espionage novels with Eric Ambler, several solo mysteries, and this one science science fiction thriller, featuring Roger Tallis, an ordinary man who views glimpses of another plane of existence through a painting in an upstairs room--until he mysteriously disappears. Very small, minor soil to the lower front cover, light foxing to the end-papers, mild crimp to the upper and lower spine edges, else very good, and quite tight in green linen with black titles to the spine; in a very good dust jacket with third-dimension portal art by Carlos, with a half-inch tear to the front panel's upper edge, tiny chips and creases to the upper and lower spine edges, slight rubbing to the rear panel. The dust jacket will be placed in a clear, removable protective sleeve after scanning for this entry.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Reprint; Second Printing. Clean hardback tightly bound in red boards with black titles, page edges tanned, no inscriptions. 316 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.59 inches. In Stock.

1st edition, hardback, 285pp, page edges browned and some foxing, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, orange cloth, rubbed, corners slightly bumped, Good condition / no dustwrapper.

Condition: New. In English.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good 29 pp. B/W Illus, Clean pages "Dutch Colonial Manuscripts" Charles Gehring "Dutch Material Culture: Paintings" Roderic H. Blackburn "An Undiscovered Van Rensselaer Letter" Charles Gehring "The Mandeville Genealogy" More. NOT a library copy See our Scans.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. nd. 281pp. + ads. spotting browning. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

BINDING - Hardcover. Condition: CONDITION - Used/ Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket - Fair. with some wear. 1st Edition. 238 Pages. External Wear. Jacket Worn With Loss.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Please contact O'Connell's Bookshop Adelaide to check availability etc. 254pp. Price clipped DJ. (mod. lit. white with blue title).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 16mo. Full green cloth. 146 pp. Light soiling to rear board. Bumping and fading to spine ends, corners bruised and lightly rubbed. Foxing to edges of text block and endpapers. Dust jacket is soiled, bumped to extremities, rubbed to front cover, lightly foxed to edges of flaps.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a VG hardcover First Edition copy in a mylar protected DJ that has a bit of rubbing at the edges, black-white spine, 2.50 flap price.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rodda, Charles. The House Upstairs. London: James Barrie, 1949. First edition. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-146 [147-148: blank]. Original light green cloth, spine panel stamped in black. Dated gift inscription from author on front free endpaper. A good copy -- spine cocked, ends of spine panel sunned -- in pictorial dust jacket with small tears at spine ends corresponding to sunned areas of cloth on book. The front panel of jacket, with a nice surrealistic design, presents well. #3346. $45. Novel about a house in Cornwall with extra-dimensional properties whose owner disappears one day, leaving behind a manuscript/diary recounting his gradual discovery of the house's strangeness and his own growing attachment to those impossible spaces. The hero has named an old friend and neighbor as literary executor, and the novel begins with the executor's twenty-page frame narrative. The author was better known in his lifetime for his mystery and detective stories.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published Garden City, NY: Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday & Company, 1951. 8vo., 222pp. Black cloth with pink spine titles. Paper age-toned, small tape ghost on pastedown and dust jacket flaps. Very good in very good dust jacket with a few edge chips / closed tears.…

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Doubleday & Company; Garden City, 1950. Hardcover. First Edition. A Very Good, black binding with purple lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, bit of crimping to spine edges, some rubbing along board edges, heavily age toned text block, top text block edge a bit dusty, in a Very Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, few small tears along panel/spine edges, all four flap corners slightly clipped, fading to rear panel margins, Dust wrapper. A nice, overall clean and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 222pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.…

8vo. 146 pp. Turquoise-blue publisher's cloth, black lettering on spine, w/ d.j. surrealistic cover art by Carlo (slight chipping head of spine, dustsoiling), still VG/VG copy. First edition of this uncommon mystery/science fiction set in Cornwall, and a house featuring an extra-dimensional portal. Rodda (1891-1976) was an Australian journalist, and music critic in Melbourne, and New York, and then became a mystery writer in London, under the pseudonyms of Gavin Holt, Gardner Low, and Eliot Reed with Eric Ambler. …