Endless Chain by Bell Neil (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition first printing of this thriller novel. Light edge wear and light rubbing to the dust jacket. In very good / very good condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Faint blind stamp but appears unread. 255pp. Copywrite page says Alvin Redman Ltd. Size: 12mo - over 6?" - 7?" Tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Later edition. Very Good in Very Good (rubbed, edge-worn) DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. APPEARS UNREAD with unmarked, crisp-edged, well-bound pages. Jacket shows minor shelf-rubbing and minor edge wear only. NOT an ex-library book. A very good, very useful copy!

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second edition first printing of a near fine book in a very good hardcover with some rubbing. The story of John Ferrers found guilty of murder, and the events leading up to it. Interestingly the victim is not revealed until the end of the story. This book has Alvin Redman as the publisher on the book spine and the copyright page but it looks as if the publisher became Bailey Bros. & Swinfen at some point. The dustjacket says that and a sticker is present over the former publisher.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. PRICE NOT CLIPPED.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 255pp, foxing on page edges and title page, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, black cloth, Very Good / Good dustwrapper; wrapper frayed at corners and spine ends (now protected).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Fair. First Edition. 255 pages. Dustjacket has several tears and nicks with tape repairs, some darkening to rear, wear to corners, unclipped. Clean hardback binding has light wear/small creases to spine-ends and boards' corners. Page-edges have light foxing o/w pages very clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 255 page mystery/ crime novel. UNillustrated. Read more about : Armley Prison, John Ferrers, the Works, Police inspector Barnett, Kunz's Coffee house, and Miss Scrivens. Cond : Boards are black with gilt lettering at spine. White end-papers. D.J. is blue and yellow with an inmmage of the chain . D.J. rubbed. No names nor tears. Almost collectible ! ! Quote (p. 74) : " It had been an insult. For after all, how much did her conduct differ from that of hundreds of men and women whose names made news in the picture papers and the film weeklies. And if most ._._._. ." Size: Octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition, hardback, 8vo, 255p, foxing on fore-edges and prelims, otherwise clean and sound, signed by the author on title page, dated 1956, Very Good / Very Good dustwrapper. Signed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. book clean and tight. DJ: slight wear Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard Back. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very good clean copy in a very good price clipped wrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG+. First UK Edition. 255 pages. Black cloth covers with gold titles, edtse faded, clean white endpapers, text is clean and unmarked, binding is tight, VG+. Yellow and blue dust jacket with white and black titles, not price clipped, edges are lightly worn with some light scuffing, VG+. Book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Reprint. 255 pp, 8vo (8" H). "A novel of tension and suspense. In the first chapter John Ferrers is found guilty of murder, but who has been murdered is not disclosed until the end of the story. The book is the slow unravelling of all the threads which make up the fabric of the crime. Why does a man commit murder or any other crime? What are the causes leading up to that culminating moment when control gives way, when the breaking point is reached?" Previous owners name in ink on free front endpaper, tiny bump to corners of boards, very light wrinkling at top of spine, the publisher information for Bailey Bros. & Swinfen is pasted on the title page below the Alvin Redman logo. Dust jacket has light edge wear/wrinkling, light soiling, light rubbing.

1st edn. 7 vols. 8vo. Original cloth (page edges a little spotted and light wear at edges of boards), dustwrapper (Stephen Fane dustwrapper fused to boards, otherwise VG with small nicks and tears in protective covers, not price clipped). Pp. various (previous owner' neat inscription on front endpaper of The Handsome Langleys). The Handsome Langleys (Eyre & Spottiswoode 2nd printing 1945), One of the Best (Eyre & Spottiswoode 1952), The Endless Chain (Alvin Redman 1956), At the Sign of the Unicorn (Alvin Redman 1959), Testament of Stephen Fane (Alvin Redman new edn 1961 ex public library with usual stamps and markings), I Paint Your World (Alvin Redman 1963), Life Comes to Seathorpe (Ian Henry new edn 1976).

[Crime Fiction] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 15cm), pp.256. INSCRIBED by the author in green ink to title page: 'Dear John | For Greene may come and | Waugh may go | But I go on forever | - well, nearly. | Warmest regards, Neil Bell. | Brixham Oct 26 1956.' Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket priced at 13/6 to front flap. Interior lightly toned and marked. Mild toning and rubbing to jacket. Minor wear to extremities. Very good. A thriller surrounding a murder, in which the victim is only revealed at the end of the novel.