Devil Bush by Head Matthew (44 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. A nice vintage paperback with just some light signs of age and wear. We ship fast.

Condition: As New. Like New condition. A near perfect copy that may have very minor cosmetic defects.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Printing. DJ has chipping, yellowing, creasing, wear, and has been price clipped. Endpapers are beginning to yellow. ; 184 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing full number line. The dust jacket is price clipped. Light signs of age and wear. We ship fast.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. It says zero on the number line and there is a corner clipped off the inside front dust jacket part, so this is probably a book club edition. The dust jacket is a is somewhat worn, more so along the edges. The book looks okay and the pages are good.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: NF. 1st Printing. 1st printing of this edition, a Trade Paperback bound in pictorial wra ppers. Has a very tiny bump to the bottom right corner of the front co ver else as new.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Cover suffers from corner bumping, edge wear, rubbing, and creasing. Text has yellowed with age and is slightly loose in binding and should be handled with care. No ownership or other markings. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. first edition thus. G-1193, very good , creases (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. (NAP). Originally published 1945. A nice clean copy, nearly as new. Tight binding with square, uncreased spine. No marks. Virtually no cover wear.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Dell 158. Some of the perma-gloss on the cover has wrinkled or chipped away. A little wear to the edges.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Avon # G1193. Light wear along the edges and corners. Clean text.

Paperback. first edition thus. G-1193, very good - fine, reading crease (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback.

Paperback. Condition: New. NEW! 2005 Soft Cover Edition.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. almost new but not, tight and clean.

Paperback. first PB. 158, very good -fine, , reading crease (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback.

softcover/paperback. Condition: very good. first Avon printing. Listed copyright 1945, Scarce cover of The Devil in the Bush very good, small 1cm tear and light creasing on front cover, some slight fraying bottom spine, light creasing back cover.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. First Printing. 1st pbk printing, March 1947. Vintage paperback. Dell Mapback #158, no price on cover. Half inch by 2 inch tear of lamenation and art work at cover (cover is still intact) Very light wear at edges, page edges of the text block has lost most of its dye, o/w a very good copy. Rear cover map by Ruth Belew, based on a map sketched by the author for the Dell edition Matthew Head is the pseudonym of John Edwin Canaday (1907-1985), an art critic and writer. Canaday was a New York Times art critic for seventeen years and later in life he wrote restaurant reviews for the Times. All Vintage Paperbacks come sealed in 2.5 mil plastic bag and taped closed with removable tape which will not tear the covers if it sticks to them when the book is removed. Gregg, Gerald (illustrator). Vintage Paperback.…

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. #158 dell crime map on back, clean unmarked , half of liminate is missing from back. very minor wear.

Paperback. first edition thus. G-1193, almost near fine, (MYSTERY NOVEL), paperback.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Has some light general reading/shelfwear - otherwise this is a clean, tight copy. Quick dispatch from the UK. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Near Fine in black pictorial wraps with white & blue lettering with cover art by Roy La Grone picturing a devil mask with teeth. Mystery set in the Congo about a guy terrorizing a settlement. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dell Book 158, 1st paperback printing, no month, 1947. Cover art by Gerald Gregg. 190 pages. Reprints the Simon & Schuster hardcover edition from 1945. This copy in Near fine condition. 95% of laminate intact on wraps, pages are off-white. Inked check mark to FFEP, else clean. …

HEAD, Matthew. [Pseudonym John CANADAY]. THE DEVIL IN THE BUSH: MURDER IN THE CONGO. NY: W.W. Norton & Company, [1973]. black boards in dust jacket; 184 pages. First Edition, first printing of this reprint edition. Originally published in 1945. Very Good (covers nice; contents clean & tight); nice d/j. $15.00.…

Hardcover. Condition: NF. 2nd Printing. Stated second printing. 5" x 8", 184 page hardcover bound in black clo th with gold spine lettering. A near fine copy in a very good dust jac ket. The pages are tanned but are still supple. Cloth is clean, tight, spine lettering bright. The dust jacket has a closed, 2" diagonal tea r at the front panel's upper edge. It has tape along its verso. 3/4" s lit on the spine. Rubbing and fraying to the jacket's corners and alon g the head and heel of its spine. Jacket is otherwise bright, attracti ve, not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition thus, first printing. Near fine; in a near fine dust jacket with a tiny tear to the upper rear panel, two tiny tears to the lower spine, and a vertical crease to the front flap. Reissue of Head's 1945 murder mystery set against the desolation, primitiveness, and suffocating heat of a remote part of the Belgian Congo in 1943. Matthew Head is a pseudonym for the former New York Times art critic John Canaday.…