Pseudonym Grant John (8 results)

Hard Back. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition First Printing Stated. 248 pages. October 1991 Edition. Ecru paper boards with green cloth quarter spine and crisp gold lettering on spine. Dust jacket price 19.95 is unclipped. Some shelf scuffs on back of jacket. Lovejoy visits America at Last! Lovejoy comes to the U.S. for the first time. On the run from coast to coast and ending with a gambling tournament in California. After fleeing from a scrape in Hong Kong, Lovejoy is tending bar in a dingy Manhattan eatery and lviing in an even dingier midtown hotel. But it isn't long until he reveals his talent as an antiques divvy. Whe he's sent to wiat tables at a posh dinner party, he easily spots a guest's fake diamonds and argues over a water stain on a valuable antique table. Impressed by Lovejoy's divining abilities, the party's hosts draw him into an illicit antiques scam involving extortion, con tricks and beautiful women.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. [New York]: Harper & Row Publishers A Joan Kahn Book 1979 Hardcover. 0060114630 . First US edition. The second Lovejoy novel. 186 pages. Near Fine with a trace fof wear in jacket with a crease to the rear flap. clph.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. London: The Crime Club / Collins 1986 Hardcover. 0002320851 . First edition. Red boards with gold gilt spine lettering/decoration, 224 pages. Near fine with very light wear in Fine dust jacket. clphE.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. London: The Crime Club / Collins 1986. First Edition. Hardcover. 0002314282 . First edition. Red boards with gold gilt spine lettering/decoration, 216 pages. Near Fine with light toning to pages in Near Fine dust jacket with a trace of wear. clphE.

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back black paper covered boards, silver stamping. 325 pp. The second Dr Clare Burtonall novel. Fine in Fine dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper protected. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

Red cloth binding. Dust jacket. 1st edition. 225 pp. 8vo. NF (slt lean)/NF (price sticker residue at base of front dj flap).

22 cm. 274 pages. Illustrated. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only. Zé Arigó (pseudonym of José Pedro de Freitas 18 October 1921 11 January 1971) was a faith healer and proponent of psychic surgery. He claimed to have performed psychic surgery with his hands or with simple kitchen utensils while in a mediumistic trance, therefore he was also known as the Surgeon of the Rusty Knife. During his operations he supposedly embodied the spirit of Dr. Adolf Fritz. Zé Arigó was born José Pedro de Freitas on a farm located 6 kilometers from Congonhas do Campo, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. His family was very poor and he could only study up to the third grade of school. At the age of 14 he began working at a mine where he worked for 6 years. According to his autobiography, around 1950 he began to suffer from strong headaches, insomnia, trances, and hallucinations. One day he felt that the voice that had been pursuing him took over his body, and he had a vision of a bald man, dressed in a white apron and supervising a team of doctors and nurses in an enormous operating room. This entity identified itself as "Dr. Fritz." After claiming to have channeled Dr. Fritz, Arigó began to perform operations using scalpels and needles. His reputation soared and spread throughout Brazil after it was alleged that he had removed a cancerous tumor from the lung of a well-known Brazilian senator. Over the next twenty years, thousands of people who mistrusted traditional medicine, or had not found help in it, came to Congonhas in search of a cure. In 1956 Arigó was convicted of illegally practicing medicine. He was sentenced to 15 months in prison, but was pardoned by President of Brazil Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira. In 1962 he was arrested and held for seven months for practicing medicine without a license. However, he was allowed to continue treating people while held in jail. Arigó died in 1971 in an automobile accident. Magician and skeptic James Randi considered the psychic surgery of Arigó to be the result of sleight of hand trickery. Randi published a photograph of himself performing a knife stunt that Arigó was alleged to have performed. Skeptical investigator Joe Nickell has written that Arigó "prescribed various potions and concoctions that obviously depended for their effectiveness on the placebo effect. His prescriptions were filled at the only pharmacy in town run by the amateur doctor's brother. By such means were Arigo's alleged "miracle healings" actually performed." Philosopher and skeptic Robert Todd Carroll author of The Skeptic's Dictionary considered Arigó to be a hoaxer. Martin Gardner protesting Crowell-Collier's publishing of the John G. Fuller's book Arigo withdrew publication of his own (Gardner) book. Alan Arkin writes of the influence his knowledge of Arigó had on a specific time in his life in his book, Out Of My Mind:(Not Quite a Memoir). (Wikipedia) Sprache: english.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, with just a touch of fading to the cloth at the spine tips. The contents, with the occasional foxing spot to the prelims and a small spot to the bottom edge of the closed text block, are otherwise clean throughout, and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the bright, lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper which has a short closed tear to the front flap fold, secured with a piece of tape to the underside. Not price-clipped (publisher's label Ł1.50 net over the Ł3.25 printed price to the lower front flap). The first novel in the 'Lovejoy' series, introducing the eponymous antiques dealer and amateur detective. Winner of the 1977 Crime Writers' Association New Blood Dagger [John Creasey Memorial] award. Lovejoy's adventures hunting down the mythical thirteenth pair of Durs Egg duelling pistols formed the basis for the fifth episode of the BBC television adaptation 'Lovejoy' starring Ian McShane, which spanned four seasons from 1986-93. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.