Fleming Leopold (3 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart collection of exciting thrillers and detective stories from the Collins Crime Club, with the original dust wrappers. Five volumes. Crime Club Choice. This set includes: The Private Wound, 1968. First edition. Written by Cecil Day-Lewis, under the pen name of Nicholas Blake, an Anglo-Irish poet who was Poet Laureate from 1968 until 1972. He also wrote mystery novels featuring the detective Nigel Strangeways. Young Man, I Think You're Dying, 1970. First edition. Written by Joan Fleming, a British crime and thriller writer who has won the Gold Dagger award twice, once for this novel. The Quiet Woman, 1971. First edition. Written by Leopold Horace Ognall, under the pen name of Harry Carmichael, a British crime novelist and journalist who wrote over ninety novels. Copperhead, 1972. First UK edition, originally published in the US in 1971. Written by James Henderson, an American author of crime fiction. Please Pass the Guilt, 1974. First UK edition, originally published in the US in 1973. Written by Rex Stout, an American writer noted for his detective fiction and remembered as the creator of the detective Nero Wolfe and his assistant Archie Goodwin who featured in over thirty novels and forty novellas and short stories between 1934 and 1975. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear to the extremities. Minor loss to the tail of the spine of The Quiet Woman. Original dust wrappers are unclipped other than Young Man, I Think You're Dying which is price-clipped. Wrappers are sound with shelf wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Small closed tears to the edges of the panels and light sunning to the spines. The odd small mark. Loss to the spine of The Quiet Woman. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot or handling mark. Very Good. book.

Condition: Good. Etching on wove paper. 19 x 12 cm (sheet). Very Good, light staining in margins.

Etching with drypoint and engraving on Japan paper, 11 5/8 x 8 3/8 inches (294 x 212 mm), full margins. A later impression of this image which includes remarque in the margins may be found in the permanent collection of the Rijks Museum, Amsterdam. Although the identity of the sitter remains lost to history, she bears a striking resemblance to Maria Best Pabst, wife of famed brewer Captain Frederick Pabst.