Corpse Green Pyjamas by Walling (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. #nn 8. Paperback. 305pp + 1p biographical note + 4pp ads & etc. Avon book cat. in back lists 26 titles. Text ep's. Fore-crnr of ff clipped 1 x 2 in. doesn't effect text else G-VG. Small fore-corner dampstaining throughout; light-mod. edge dampstaining to first couple/last doz. or so leaves stays mostly in margins. Cv creases detract light-mod. Tight; no owners marks. Lightly read. A Mr. Tolefree mystery.

Paperback. era. NO#-8 very good non Globe end-papers. paperback,

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. Good Plus condition with light to moderate cover wear, owner's name inside. Otherwise content clean, binding strong, cover design and lettering still bold. 305 pages Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. Stand-alone thriller by the author of the Philip Tolefree mysteries. Orig. published in 1935, this is the 1937 Sixth Printing, a Blue Ribbon Books/A. L. Burt reprint. With olive green cloth-covered boards stamped in darker green lettering to front & spine, this hardcover 8vo is in VG condition: very clean, binding straight & strong with slight rightward lean, pages moderately tanned, commensurate with age. Old rental store stamp inside front cover, else unmarked. Rubbing to extremities, heaviest at corners, light soil & dust dulling to outside page edges. The unclipped DJ is Good, with light soil, rubbing, creasing, & small chips; 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 Weekdays by 2 pm (Pacific time); later orders, weekends & holidays ship very next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. fifth printing. 6 x 8 in. Paper boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; library plate on front pastedown, nothing else. Liht wear, one corner a bit water stained. Binding tight. DJ is GOOD+ ; worn, chips with creases. Fic. Stax.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. British mystery; a Tolefree tale, published in the UK as The Cat and the Corpse, in which a body mysteriously vanishes. Hardcover, as pictured; first US edition (first printing) with same date on title & copyright pages, no later printings noted, lacking the jacket. Light wear to book, minor tanning, light crease to spine, no jacket. Size: Small Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Gorska (illustrator). Reprint. 6th printing, February 1939, same month and year as the first Triangle printing, obviously a tremendously popular book! Pages age toned, endpapers darkened else very good in dust jacket worn at folds, shallow loss at top of spine, fraying at extremities Philip Tolefree; England "Over here we call them pajamas, but this story is laid in England, where the Anglo-Indian spelling is preferred. Mr. Tolefree, who has been summoned to Wolborough Castle because of an unpleasant experience that befell his friend Isaac Stratton during a visit there, finds the corpse in the green nightwear in a secret passage opening off his room. A little later on the body has disappeared, and an effort is being made to convince Tolefree that he has been having hallucinations. Tolefree knows better, but there is nothing, for the moment, that he can do about it. There is no way in which he can prove that there was a corpse, and he has no legal authority to search for it. However, he knows what he knows, and when the same corpse turns up at some distance from the castle be is determined to find out how it got there and who killed the man whose taste in sleeping garments was so bizarre. The first thing that Tolefree discovers is that several persons, including his client, are either lying or withholding part of the truth, thus obstructing not so much Tolefree's investigations as those being carried on by the local authorities. In the end Tolefree presents, without being able to prove it correct, his theory of what has happened. What the authorities do about it we are not told, but it is a beautiful theory, except for a few facts which do not fit in and which both the author and his detective appear to have overlooked. We leave it to the reader to discover what these facts are and to consider whether they can possibly be explained away. Except for these minor flaws, the story is fully up to Mr. Walling's high standard of excellence." -- New York Times Book Review February 10, 1935, Book.

Third Printing, same month as first. Octavo, original black cloth over boards, decorated in green, stained top edge, deckle edge, color decorated dust jacket. Murder mystery featuring Walling's recurring private eye character, Philip Tolefree, who finds a corpse only for it to disappear forty minutes later. Very Good in Good dust jacket, edge chipped dust jacket, split along rear spine edge, sizable tear at bottom of rear panel, loss at spine ends, a few dark marks on rear panel, shelf wear.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Small white surface scrape to bottom left hand corner of front panel. The rear panel has a faint stain near the bottom right hand corner and a small dent in the top edge. Light edge rubbing to boards. Light trace of a price in pencil to the front free endpaper. Pages browned but generally otherwise unmarked although the book has been in the house of smoker so there is an odour to the pages. No jacket. First printing.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Advance Copy. Advance reading copy in green, black, and white illustrated self-wraps, "Publication Date / Feb - 8 1935" stamped on front flyleaf. First American edition. 305 pp. Very Good. Understandable creasing and concavity to spine, a bit of rubbing along edges and a slight lean. Top corner bumped. A scarce advance copy of the mystery originally titled The Cat and the Corpse in the UK, sent to reviewers and authors before American publication.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition. Black cloth with green lettering to front board and spine. Light rubbing to the cloth tips, slightly cocked, dust jacket with light wear around the edges and a few shallow chips. Overall a good, clean copy.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm.); black bords stamped in green on cover and spine; dustjacket; 305pp.; spine ends gently rubbed, still a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00) chipping and tears to the extremities, badly scuffed front panel- Good only.