Mcgovan James (9 results)

paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Condition: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. In the 1870s, there appeared a series of volumes purporting to be the auto-biographical writings of an Edinburgh policeman, James McGovan. Doubtless, inspired by McLevy, Honeyman created a character who can lay claim to being one of the first detectives in crime fiction. James McGovan walks the same Edinburgh beat as his real-life predecessor, shares his dry sense of humour and, like McLevy, never fails to get a conviction. The books will almost certainly have been known to the young Arthur Conan Doyle, who was a student in Edinburgh at the time and published his first Sherlock Holmes story in 1887. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. (Ref. JJ5) Undated believed 1st. Red cloth with black titles. Spine-faded and a little all over. A few small marks, smudges plus usual shelfwear otherwise good. Prelims a little foxed with flecking to top edge and foredge.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Fifth Printing. Clean hardback tightly bound in pictorial boards, spine covering absent, boards worn, back board partially split at the bottom 4 inches, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. 492 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. (Ref.I1 ) Undated. Pale blue cloth boards with dark blue lettering and border lining. Darkening to board edges. Faded spine with fade line to rear board top edge and side of spine at rear. A few very small smudges and marks to board surfaces. Small split to top left hinge of spine also small tear to cloth at both lower spine joints which have been repaired. Darkening/tanning to top edge. Tanning to foredge, endpapers and page borders throughout. Otherwise unmarked and firmly bound. No DJ.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. (Ref.AA4 ) Green cloth boards with dark green spine titles. Spine-tanned. Darkened top edge. Tanned foredge. Some small stains and smudges to boards. Small split to lower left edge of spine. Head, heel and corners are nudged. Tanned borders to pages throughout. Contents otherwise unmarked. No DJ. …

First Edition. First edition in the original illustrated wrappers, frayed to the lower spine and a little foxed to the edges. Inscription to the title page 'with the author's compliments' . A Good+ copy of a scarce item. Allegedly Jock Howieson escued James V from a gang of gipsies or robbers while His Majesty was in disguise as the Laird of Ballengeich. There is a house said to be his at Cramond village on the outskirts of Edinburgh. The tale was told originally by Walter Scott in his 'Tales of a Grandfather' and may be apocryphal. The author is better known under his pseudonym James McGovan under which he wrote early crime stories (published as factual).…