Corpse Green Pyjamas, First Edition (6 results)

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.

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.

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.