Chessmen by Mason (37 results)

Condition: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

paperback. Condition: Good. A used book with light to moderate shelf wear and imperfections. Photos and additional details upon request. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good.

Condition: New.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: New.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Clean unmarked old book. NOT a former library book. NO writing or highlighting. Mesh is showing at front but is holding and will continue to hold with just a little care. Front cover looks good in its Dust jacket ---now protected with a removable mylar cover. DJ missing pieces along spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. 343 pages. Written by A E W Mason one of the most successful novelists of his generation (novels include, "The Four Feathers', "The Witness for the Defence"). This book is dedicated to the ravishingly wonderful Lady Diana Cooper. The boards has marking, some wear. The contents are pleasingly clear, clean, relaxed, assured. Tightly bound. fk r* 08/04/2022. [Ak]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.…

Paperback. Condition: near fine paperback. 1st printing. I stumbled across this pulp obscurity entirely by accident and really enjoyed it. Our hero, Inspector Hanaud, is an amusing blend of Poirot and Columbo.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. new edition. 280 pages. 8.07x5.31x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, so stated. Edges rubbed, corners bumped, covers soiled and stained, rear more so than front, now inh a homemade acetate dust jacket. Golden Age mystery combining international intrigue, psychological depth, and classic whodunit suspense. The story opens with Julius Ricardo, a wealthy and fastidious English gentleman, holidaying in France. He crosses paths with Nahendra Nao, the naive young Prince of Chitipur, who is traveling with a legendary, multimillion-dollar rope of pearls. Unbeknownst to the prince, a brilliant but ruthless mastermind named Oliver Trimble has targeted the jewels. Trimble treats the upcoming heist like a Grandmaster playing chess, assigning highly specific, timed roles to his recruited accomplices, including the beautiful but manipulative Lydia Croft and the desperate Scott Carruth. Trimble's flawless plan relies on his accomplices acting like cold, predictable chess pieces. Instead, human nature takes over. Greed, sudden panic, and unexpected romantic rivalries spark friction among the conspirators. Rather than a smooth, quiet theft, the scheme explodes into violence on the Normandy coast. A chaotic struggle breaks out, resulting in a brutal murder, a frantic double-cross, and the sudden disappearance of both the pearls and key members of the conspiracy. Entangled in the social circle surrounding the victim and the prince, Ricardo immediately contacts his old friend, Inspector Gabriel Hanaud of the Paris Sûreté. Hanaud arrives with his trademark blend of flamboyant charisma, sharp psychological intuition, and meticulous attention to detail. While Ricardo often misinterprets the clues, Hanaud quietly observes the behavior, anxieties, and shifting loyalties of the suspects left behind. Hanaud's investigation leads away from Normandy to a quiet, secluded stretch of the River Seine, where a mysterious houseboat is moored. Recognizing that the criminals are now trapped in their own web of mutual distrust, Hanaud uses their mounting paranoia against them. In a dramatic final confrontation on the water, Hanaud pieces together the exact timeline of the betrayal, recovers the ancestral pearls, and exposes the killer who thought they could outsmart human nature. Book.…

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . No Dust Jacket Rear hinge cracked. Writing inside. (Vintage Mystery and Adventure).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. The boards are edgeworn and damp marked.Some light foxing.Well bound.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. 1969. 343 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Pink jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Dust jacket attached to boards.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The young heir to an Indian throne carries a rope of pearls famous across two continents. When a heartless beauty deliberately ruins the necklace, a quiet, calculating man begins to plot its recovery - and its theft.His design is flawless on paper. Every move is anticipated, every player set in place like a piece on a board. But human beings are not chessmen. They have passions, fears, and wills of their own, and they refuse to keep to the squares assigned them.On the sunlit Normandy coast and aboard a pleasure house-boat drifting down the Seine, the elegant scheme begins to slide toward murder. A celebrated detective of the French police, idling away a hot summer nearby, finds its threads tightening around him. To save the innocent and unmask the guilty, he must learn why a perfect plan went so terribly, fatally wrong.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. "THEY WOULDN'T BE CHESSMEN - A Hanaud Novel" by A.E. W. Mason with its original dust jacket. 1935 1st edition; Hodder & Stoughton; London. Early state jacket with " 7/6 " price on the spine. The book is a detective novel that follows French Inspector Gabriel Hanaud as he investigates the theft of a priceless set of ancestral pearls. Nahendra Nao, heir to the Maharajah of Chitipur, lets a Parisian performer wear his ancestral pearls, which are damaged by her skin. His secretary hires a down-on-her-luck opera singer named Lydia Flight to wear the pearls on a houseboat along the Seine river to help them heal. The valuable pearls are stolen, prompting character Julius Ricardo to team up with his old friend Inspector Hanaud to crack the case. Condition: Clean covers and spine. The bottom-right corner of the front cover is bumped. There are a couple thin lines of "bubbling" beneath the cloth at the bottom-left quadrant of the back cover. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. Both covers are firmly attached. Nice interior - the pages are clean with only a half-dime sized piece missing at the bottom edge of page 157 (the text is unaffected). The pages are mildly crimped at the lower-outer corner tips throughout. Previous owner's "Mystery Library" label affixed to the front end paper. Light foxing to the end papers and pastedowns, and to the bibliography page. Overall the book is in Very Good- condition. The dust jacket is un-clipped with the price intact on the spine; small tears at the top edge of the spine; light soiling to the back cover; the spine and front cover are lightly tanned.overall the jacket is in Very Good- condition. (The dust jacket comes with a clear, protective sleeve - not shown.).…

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - The young heir to an Indian throne carries a rope of pearls famous across two continents. When a heartless beauty deliberately ruins the necklace, a quiet, calculating man begins to plot its recovery - and its theft.His design is flawless on paper. Every move is anticipated, every player set in place like a piece on a board. But human beings are not chessmen. They have passions, fears, and wills of their own, and they refuse to keep to the squares assigned them.On the sunlit Normandy coast and aboard a pleasure house-boat drifting down the Seine, the elegant scheme begins to slide toward murder. A celebrated detective of the French police, idling away a hot summer nearby, finds its threads tightening around him. To save the innocent and unmask the guilty, he must learn why a perfect plan went so terribly, fatally wrong.…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The young heir to an Indian throne carries a rope of pearls famous across two continents. When a heartless beauty deliberately ruins the necklace, a quiet, calculating man begins to plot its recovery - and its theft.His design is flawless on paper. Every move is anticipated, every player set in place like a piece on a board. But human beings are not chessmen. They have passions, fears, and wills of their own, and they refuse to keep to the squares assigned them.On the sunlit Normandy coast and aboard a pleasure house-boat drifting down the Seine, the elegant scheme begins to slide toward murder. A celebrated detective of the French police, idling away a hot summer nearby, finds its threads tightening around him. To save the innocent and unmask the guilty, he must learn why a perfect plan went so terribly, fatally wrong. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

First Edition. The fourth Inspector Hanaud novel. A VG copy in the original blue cloth with black titles.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Dampstained. Hinges cracked. Writing inside. Stamped on front pastedown. In protective mylar cover. Facsimile dust jacket. (mystery fiction ).

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Hardback. No Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 343. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine and black on front cover. Attractive bookplate of E. & C. Fison on front endpaper. Crime fiction with A. M. Hanaud. Slight rubbing and slight marking to covers, otherwise near very good.…

First edition, USA. Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York. 1935. Hardback. No DW. Black cloth with type and chessboard decoration in red to spine. Spine slightly torn and crumpled to head and tail, lacking small portions to both ends. Boards slightly worn, partially faded and rubbed, pages browned, gift inscription. Generally a clean and sound copy of a scarce title. …

Condition: Poor. Some light splitting to the bottom area of the spine cover, which is a little loose from the textblock. The content is lightly tanned, remains fine to read.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 343 pages. Blue cloth covers with black titles, top and base of spine lightly bumped, light wear to edges, endpapers and text edges are yellowed, previous owner's name on ffep, Very Good. Decorated yellow, black and blue dust jacket with yellow and black titles, top and base of spine, corners are bumped with a few small chips and tears, edges are lightly worn with a few light creases, light rubbing, Very Good. Book.…

First edition, octavo, light blue buckram boards with gilt lettering to spine & dark blue lettering to front board, 343pp + 8pp book ads, VG (moderately heavy tanning to page edges, light tanning to eps, v slight bruising to spine extrems) in d/w, G+ (2cm off loss to spine extrems, soiling to rear, several closed tears to edges, nicks to corners & edges, creasing to edges, browning & foxing inside). …

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. The young heir to an Indian throne carries a rope of pearls famous across two continents. When a heartless beauty deliberately ruins the necklace, a quiet, calculating man begins to plot its recovery - and its theft.His design is flawless on paper. Every move is anticipated, every player set in place like a piece on a board. But human beings are not chessmen. They have passions, fears, and wills of their own, and they refuse to keep to the squares assigned them.On the sunlit Normandy coast and aboard a pleasure house-boat drifting down the Seine, the elegant scheme begins to slide toward murder. A celebrated detective of the French police, idling away a hot summer nearby, finds its threads tightening around him. To save the innocent and unmask the guilty, he must learn why a perfect plan went so terribly, fatally wrong. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: Hervorragend. Zustand: Hervorragend | Seiten: 322 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: B?cher | Keine Beschreibung verf?gbar.