Lorac E C R Pseudonym of Edith Rivett (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION, second printing. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's blue cloth with titles in gilt to spine, binding likely a secondary binding. Dust-jacket designed by J Z Anderson, with printed price of 4s. 6d. net to front flap. Textblock toned, some spotting to top edge. Cloth a little rubbed. Dust-jacket shows well, some spotting, chips, tears and creases. Very good. A death occurs in rural Lancashire during the Second World War, Inspector MacDonald of the Yard investigates.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: CREASED DJ. Bottom of dj was trimmed with only half of the author's name showing, also creased along the spine and edges. The book itself has general shelf wear, deckled and slightly yellowed fore edges. DATE PUBLISHED: 1946 EDITION: 270.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Ezra Jack Keats (illustrator). First edition. A rare mystery by the British author best-known as E.C.R. Lorac, towards the end of her life. Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard turns up to conduct the investigation of an accident in the snow that involves two vehicles, one of them driven by elderly, who dies in the crash. But when people look inside his car, a second body is discovered. The deceased is not a local, and he died before the accident. Dust jacket has edge-wear, unclipped ($2.75). First edition. 5¾" - 8½". book.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Arcadia House, 1944. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's salmon cloth stamped in black. Near Fine with a faint lean to the binding. Pages toned, foxed at textblock edge, prelims and terminals. In a Very Good dust jacket with graphite check mark to spine and a sizeable chip at head, nick to rear spine joint, foxing to flaps and blindside.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 190 pp. Blue cloth with pale blue lettering. Very Good+ with toned contents, offsetting to endpapers , in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly foxed and toned, small nick in front gutter, but unfaded and bright. A rare mystery by the British author best-known as E.C.R. Lorac.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First American edition. 288 pp. Publisher's brown cloth lettered in navy blue. Near Fine, slight lean, in an unfaded, unclipped dust jacket with some foxing, else Near Fine, lightly shelf wear. A lovely example of the scarce jacket. A novel from the golden age of British mysteries named to the British Library Crime Classics in 2019, even more rare in its American edition.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First American edition. 256 pp. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black. Near Fine with foxing and dust-soiling to edges, contents clean and bright, in the rare pictorial dust jacket, foxed and dust-soiled with a small pencil checkmark on the spine-- hardly any shelf wear and no fading to colors, though. Titles from this publisher are scarce in collectible condition. British mystery writer Edith Rivett wrote a number of golden age crime classics under the male E.C.R. Lorac pseudonym.