Dead by Audemars Pierre: Signed (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Near fine hardcover with very good clipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Dust jacket has minor wear to the spine. Inscribed book plate in book. Inscribed by Author(s).

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First US edition. Originally published in the UK by John Long in 1975. The front free endpaper has an affectionate inscription from the author to J.A. Nicoll. The blue boards have a little bumping to the corners and some fading to the edges. There is a small surface tear to the rear panel next to the spine - the jacket also has a small hole in the same area. The page edges have water staining in several places on the top, bottom and fore edges. The pages are otherwise clean and unmarked however. Jacket has chipping and staining to the edges and corners with some loss at the top and bottom of the spine. The rear panel is a little browned. Jacket illustration by Nan Denson. First printing. Denson, Nan (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…

Hard Cover. First Edition. F/F. 8vo. original black boards gilt in dustwrapper priced £2.25 net in UK only; pp. 186 (last blank). A fine copy of the seventeenth Monsieur Pinaud Parisian detective mystery. Inscribed to prev. owner on FFE 'To Tom Waring - with best wishes from a grateful author, Pierre Audemars'. Provenance: Gary Gorton crime fiction collection. Signed by Author. …

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. The twenty-first of Pierre Audemars' Monsieur Pinaud mystery novels, a lovely first edition copy inscribed byt he author. Author's presentation copy, inscribed to the recto of the front endpaper, 'To Gerald Austin, in appreciation, twenty-one years later! P. Audemars, Feb 6th 1978'. Austin was the dedicatee of Audemars' next novel, 'A Sad and Savage Dying'.The first edition, first impression, with no subsequent printings listed.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.The twenty-first novel, in Pierre Audemars' mystery series featuring his detective Monsieur Pinaud.'Now Dead is Any Man' begins with a murdered body being discovered in the River Seine, beginning a series of mysterious events which Monsieur Pinaud has to solve.Audemars published a total of twenty-seven Monsieur Pinaud novels, publishing from 1958 to 1985. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Author's inscription to the recto of the front endpaper. Dust wrapper is very lightly edge worn with a few minor spots. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. None (illustrator). signed by author. book.…