Mortimer John Editor (58 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust Jacket shows very minor shelving wear, otherwise an unblemished copy.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

1st printing of 1st edition. Fine trade hard cover book in fine dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Brown boards show no wear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Prior owner notation on title page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ex-Libris.

Hard cover. Condition: Fine in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. Audience: General/trade. No previous owner's name. Clean, tight pages. No bent corners. dj has tear HC 274.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Printing, First Paperback Edition. An amusing and entertaining anthology of bad guys in history, literature, legend and myth. Chapters on master crooks, minor crooks, murderers, seducers and cads, con men, traitors and spies and tyrants, among others. Makes you realize sometimes the devil really does have the best lines. Introduction by Mortimer of "Rumpole" fame. Pictorial wrappers show reading creases on spine, other minor surface and edgewear, no tears or chipping. Text is clean and unmarked, tight and square, not remaindered. A lot of good reading here. …

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. Publisher: Norton, New York, 1992.First Edition, First Printing. FINE hardcover book in FINE dust-jacket. As new. Unread. Not remainder marked. Not price-clipped. Not a book club edition. Not an ex-library copy. All of our books with dust-jackets are shipped in fresh, archival-safe mylar protective sleeves. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Printing. 182 pp. Burgundy boards decorated in gilt on the spine; illustrated with black and white plates and line drawings. Light rubbing on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; previous owner's name inside. Stories about Sir John Gielgud, told by: J. C. Trewin; Angus McBean; Emlyn Williams; Christopher Fry; Alec Guinness; John Mortimer; Peggy Ashcroft; Harold Hobson; Irene Worth; Peter Brook; Michael Billington; Alan Bennett; Michael Coveney; and Derek Granger; followed by a postscript, a chronology and an index. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. New hardcover with no dust jacket. An unread/unopened copy. May have very minor rubbing and scuffing from shelf.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good ++. Paperback Original. First Edition mass market paperback, 256 pages; just a hint of spine creasing, otherwise very gently used, very clean and unmarked. For even more mystery short stories, and who can get enough?, see also our listings for Malice Domestic 3 : An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories (No. 3), edited by Nancy Pickard, and for Cat Crimes 2 [Two, II]: Nineteen tales of mystery from today's Masters, also edited by Martin H. Greenberg, and this, just in, Eyes Still Have It : The Shamus Award-Winning Stories, edited by Robert J. Randisi.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Appears unread. Shadow from a label on the inside of the front cover. Very little shelfwear. No dust jacket as issued. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Reference.

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Printing of the First Edition. New York: Signet Books, 1992. Near Fine condition. Bright, clean, tight, square, and unmarked. No store stamp, ink name or bookplate. Not a remainder. Anthology of Christmas mysteries including: The Santa Claus Club by Julian Symons; Rumpole and the Spirit of Christmas by John Mortimer; Santa's Way by James Powell; Carmine and the Christmas Presecet by Charles Ardai; The Shape of the Nightmare by Francis M. Nevins, Jr.; Christmas Party by Martin Werner; Supper with Miss Shivers by Peter Lovesey; Noel Noel by Barry Perowne; The Embezzler's Christmas Present by Ennis Duling; The Christmas Spirit by Thomasina Weber; The Spy and the Christmas Cipher by Edward D. Hoch; But Once a Year. Thank God by Joyce Porter; The Carol Singers by Josephine Bell; Murder under the Mistletoe by Margery Allingham; The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; etc. . First Printing of the First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Near Fine condition. viii, 250pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Book is like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No. 35 in series; 509 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; binding firm; russet board rubbed at edges; gilt lettering on brown patch on spine.Contents: "A Letter Concerning Toleration; Concerning Civil Government, Second Essay; An Essay Concerning Human Understanding - John Locke/The Principles of Human Knowledg - George Berkely/An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume.Faint old-book aroma gratis.…

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. AS NEW, navy blue cloth over boards with gilt font on cover and gilt laurel boarder, Oxford seal and title on spine.xii + 431 pps. Unmarked, clean, binding tight. Dust jacket clipped, back cover shows minimal shelf wear, no other tears, marks, etc and now under plastic protective wrap. First edtn/printing.They are everywhere, down narrow streets and in brightly lit office buildings and parliaments, dominating family life, crowding prisons and law courts, and providing plots for most of the works of fiction that have been composed since the dawn of history." Billy the Kid, written by Jorge Luis Borges, and another of the tax evasion trial of Al Capone, by Damon Runyon. Mortimer has in fact ranged high and low, taking excerpts from the greats of literature--from the Bible, Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton (where Lucifer has all the best lines, such as "Better to reign in hell, than serve in heav'n"), Moliere, Dostoevsky, Dickens, Hardy, Trollope, Mark Twain, and many others--and from the leading detective and mystery writers--including Eric Ambler, Dick Francis, Wilkie Collins, James M. Cain, Patricia Highsmith, Ian Fleming, Angela Carter, and Arthur Conan Doyle.…

Hardcover. Condition: New. New hardcover with no dust jacket. An unread/unopened copy. May have very minor rubbing and scuffing from shelf.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Condition Notes: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition/first printing in Near Fine condition with bumping to the edges in an alike dust-jacket with some minor wear to the edges; An anthology of the most infamous representatives, real and imagined, of the criminal world; 8vo; 431 pages; FSA.…

Hardcover. Condition: Used; Very Good. **SHIPPED FROM UK** We believe you will be completely satisfied with our quick and reliable service. All orders are dispatched as swiftly as possible! Buy with confidence! Greener Books.

Hard Cover. Condition: NF. Dust Jacket Condition: NF. First Edition, First Printing. SIGNED - Octavo. Navy blue cloth boards and spine with shiny gilt lettering on the spine and front board, and a decorative gilt trim around the outside edges of the spine. Light bumping at the tail of the spine. White endpapers. Signed by John Mortimer on a book plate that has been fixed onto the half title page. Binding is straight and tight; pages all clean, white and crisp. 431 pages. Dust Jacket - has a very faint trace of rubbing at the rear corner of the tail of the spine and in a couple isolated places along the upper edge of the front cover. Tight and clean. Mortimer is probably best known for his Rumpole series of mysteries. Signed by the Author. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. xii + 431 pp Both book and dust jacket are in very good condition. The red on the jacket spine is a little faded.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 148 pages. Illustrated. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ursula Le Guin, Penguin Specials, Robert Gibbings, bibliographer W.O.G Lofts, Cowboy comics library & annuals, John Mortimer .

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 148 pages. Illustrated. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ursula Le Guin, Penguin Specials, Robert Gibbings, bibliographer W.O.G Lofts, Cowboy comics library & annuals, John Mortimer .

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fine in navy boards with gilt lettering on front board and gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Attractive scoundrels and incompetent rogues, calculating murderers and unscrupulous swinders pack these pages.An anthology of the most infamous representatives, real and imagined, of the criminal world. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine. dj. 1st. Bound in navy blue cloth with the front cover and spine stamped in gilt.

Hardcover. Condition: New. New hardcover with no dust jacket. An unread/unopened copy. May have very minor rubbing and scuffing from shelf.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Large Soft Cover. Condition: New. First. 226 pages. Stories by Rog Pile, Gary McMahon, David A. Riley, Joel Lane, Paul Newman, Christine Mortimer, Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, Sean Parker, Mike Chinn, John Mains, Franklin Marsh, Craig Herbertson, Paul Finch, John Llewellyn Probert, Frank Nicholas, Julia Lufford, and Gary Fry. Paul Mudie (cover) (illustrator). Horror. …

Large Soft Cover. Condition: New. First. 226 pages. Stories by Rog Pile, Gary McMahon, David A. Riley, Joel Lane, Paul Newman, Christine Mortimer, Steve Lockley & Paul Lewis, Sean Parker, Mike Chinn, John Mains, Franklin Marsh, Craig Herbertson, Paul Finch, John Llewellyn Probert, Frank Nicholas, Julia Lufford, and Gary Fry. Paul Mudie (cover) (illustrator). Horror. …

Hard Cover`. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 431 pages. Small bookseller's label on dust jacket. Plastic wrapper.