Lorac Edith (27 results)

Condition: Muy bueno. EAN: 9788420640419 Tipo: Libros Título: La Sombra Del Sacristán Autor: Lorac, Edith Caroline Rivet Editorial: Alianza Editorial. Peso: 500.

Condition: Muy bueno. : Un viejo avaro recibe un disparo en plena frente a cambio de un montón de billetes que guardaba bajo la cama. El hombre vivía en la más absoluta miseria y en completa soledad. Sin embargo, junto al cadáver había una pistola, huellas de dos visitantes y un soldado canadiense que aseguraba ser sobrino de la víctima y no tener nada que ver con el crimen. Todo parece indicar que el pobre soldado ha sido elegido como cabeza de turco, pero las cuartadas de los posibles sospechosos no tienen fisuras y la investigación parece adentrarse en un callejón sin salida. EAN: 9788402093462 Tipo: Libros Título: Jaque Mate Al Asesino Autor: Lorac, Edith Caroline Rivet Editorial: Bruguera. Idioma: ES Páginas: 92.

tapa blanda. Condition: Bien. Literatura inglesa. Novelas policiacas, de misterio, de intriga. Siglo XX. (820-312.4"19") Alianza. Madrid. 1974. 18 cm. 187 p., 1 h. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Colección 'Selecciones del Séptimo Círculo', numero coleccion(v. 12). Traductor, Elvira Martín . Cubierta deslucida. ISBN: 8420640123 (=3152274=) LA267.

Soft Cover. Condition: VG-. Reprint. Undated [c.1950]. A White Circle Crime Club. 12mo. original printed paper wraps (rubbed & a little creased, fraying at spine ends, paperstock slightly toned, else internally clean); pp. 192. A very good copy of an uncommon novel.

1st ed. thus pictorial wrappers Near Fine octavo 160pp., Originally published 1945.

Encuadernación de tapa blanda. Condition: Muy bien. 1ª Edición. LORAC. E.C. R. (Edith Caroline Rivett (1884-1959) ASESINATO EN EL MOLINO (MURDER IN THE MILL RACE). ED. ZIG- ZAG CHILE .SERIE EL SABUESO. 1953 1° ED.COLECCCIÓN. BIBLIOTECA DE NOVELISTAS . TRADUCTOR: G. GARIAZZO.246 PP, cubiertas ilustradas, muy buen estado. Edith Caroline Rivett (1884-1959) (la cual escribió con los seudónimos de E.C.R. Lorac y Carol Carnac) fue una escritora británica de narraciones de misterio. Nació en Hendon, Middlesex (actualmente parte de Londres). Se educó en la South Hampstead High School y en la Central School of Arts and Crafts de Londres. Fue miembro del Detection Club. Fue una escritora muy prolífica, con un total de 48 obras de misterio bajo su primer nombre literario, y otras 23 con el segundo. Fue uno de los más importantes autores de la edad dorada del género. NOVELA MISTERIO- POLICIAL. VID 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/lite chipping, unclipped price; owner's name; 284 clean, unmarked pages , in mylar; red c w/black spine titles; 256 clean, unmarked, bright pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. EARLY REPRINT. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.192. Publisher's blue cloth, titles in gilt to spine. Textblock toned, a little shaken in case. Binding rubbed to extremities with some marks. Very good. A country house mystery set at Wulfstane Manor, Inspector MaDonald of the Yard investigates.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. One in a popular series of mysteries published under this pseudonym by British crime writer Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958). This was only the 5th book in her most well-known series featuring Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald (which she would write across the next quarter century). First published in Great Britain in 1946 under the title, "The Theft of the Iron Dogs,'' this is the First US Edition from 1947, which is decidedly more scarce! 12mo, 286 pages, with gray cloth over boards lettered in blue to front & spine. Condition is just Good: generally clean with offsetting & old tape marks to endpapers/both boards, from where DJ was attached to book. Spine cracked at title page, pages moderately tanned, unmarked save for remnants of old homemade library slip in rear. Light soil, some foxing, rubbing to extremities, bumped corners & spine tips. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.00 price intact to front flap) is Near Fine, having been protected under mylar, which has been carefully removed & replaced with new nonreflective mylar cover. Tiny chip to heel of spine is only flaw! would grow to include books). . Orig. published in Britain (though not noted here), this is the First American Edition, First printing for the Crime Club by Doubleday from 1950. With matte black cloth-covered boards lettered in white to spine, this hardcover small 8vo is in VG+ condition: very clean, binding straight & strong, very little edgewear save or sight rubbing to spine tips & all corners. Pages are heavily tanned, particularly around edges. Former owner's name & date in pen inside front cover, else, unmarked. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.25 price intact) is VG, with minor rubbing to extremities & a small chip to lower edge of back cover. Protected by former owner in nonreflective mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. One in a popular series of mysteries published under this pseudonym by British crime writer Edith Caroline Rivett (1894-1958). This was book #33 in her most well-known series featuring Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Robert Macdonald. Orig. published in Britain (though not noted here), this is the First American Edition, First printing for the Crime Club by Doubleday from 1950. With matte black cloth-covered boards lettered in white to spine, this hardcover small 8vo is in VG+ condition: very clean, binding straight & strong, very little edgewear save or sight rubbing to spine tips & all corners. Pages are heavily tanned, particularly around edges. Former owner's name & date in pen inside front cover, else, unmarked. The unclipped DJ (with orig. $2.25 price intact) is VG, with minor rubbing to extremities & a small chip to lower edge of back cover. Protected by former owner in nonreflective mylar cover. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have. Same day shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. EARLY REPRINT. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth, titles in black to spine. Dust-jacket with printed price of 6s. net to front flap. A little dusty to top edge. Dust-jacket shows very well, just a couple of small closed tears and some light marking to rear panel. Near fine. Two young couples flee the rat race in London to a rural idyll in Devon, only to find a body in the outbuildings, Superintendent MacDonald of the Yard investigates.

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 Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Chief Inspector Macdonald investigates when the most malicious gossip in town is murdered. Bumped and rubbed with a bit of fraying at the spine ends. Spine sunned, small drip mark to the front board. Binding solid, previous owner's initials, dated 28/12/49, on the front end paper.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item. Book.

Softcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Inspector Macdonald investigates a suspicious death in a rural village involving a local doctor. A classic fair-play mystery from one of the most underappreciated Golden Age authors. Ink name across upper cover, minor rubbing but overall very good. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Bright red cloth boards with black text to spine; pictorial dust jacket. Includes a small advertising pamphlet titled Mystery Guild Clues, The January 1955 Selections published by the Dollar Mystery Guild. No previous owners' names or other markings. Light foxing to top edge of pages, otherwise bright and clean pages throughout. Soiling and small losses to dust jacket (see image). 221 pp. 5 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Chief Inspector Julian Rivers investigates murder & blackmail on the Welsh border. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners, tanned pages; jacket edgeworn, chipped & foxed with long tear to front panel, crease. Text clean, no names or marks; 190 pages. Size: Octavo.

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.