Murder Reflection by Heard (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition 8vo. Stone-grey with black to heavily spotted spine, Shadowy patch to front, minor bumped wear, slightest forward lean, front hinge loosened, binding else sound, a signature to fep, , very good page condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Hardcover; Hardcover in dust jacket. Beige cloth board show soil and edge wear. Water mark to outer front board edge. Light tanning to endpapers. Light soil to foredge, a few edges are rough cut. Text pages are clean. Tattered dust jacket. All edges are rubbed, chipped and worn through. Front of dust jacket is starting to separate from spine and flyleaf. Back cover is foxed and soiled. Held together in protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase. ; 8VO; 283 pages.

Condition: Good. Prompt Shipment, shipped in Boxes, Tracking PROVIDEDShaken, tips bumped boards showing, else good no dust jacket. First edition.

hardcover. First Edition. VG+ in good+, near VG Dust Jacket frayed at spine extremities.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Tan cloth first edition. Slight toning to cloth edges, slight bumping to crown. Pages slightly toned. The DJ in mylar is sunned, lightly chipped/insected to edges/folds. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Two pages with marginal chip (uncut during binding and later carelessly opened) else a nice fresh copy in little worn dust wrapper, tiny chipping at spine ends.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Very good in very good dustwrapper. Hardcover First Edition. Book spine is lightly sunned. Dustwrapper has some wear at spine ends and along the top edge.

First edition UK. Cassell, London. 1945. Beige cloth, blue lettering. Slim 8vo. NO DW. Boards are partially sunned and foxed. Gift inscription to front pastedow o/w contents are overall clean and sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (1942). First edition. Splendid jacket art shows a contemporary chap seeing a centuries-old reflection of himself in an ornate mirror. A fine copy in beige cloth; in a lightly edgeworn pictorial dust jacket that shows some minor age-darkening and very shallow nicking at spine ends and corners. Young and handsome Arnoldo Signorli does away with his rich benefactress in this "intense study of the psychology of homicide" (Brian Stableford) by the author of the enchanting Holmesian pastiches A TASTE FOR HONEY, REPLY PAID, and THE NOTCHED HAIRPIN.

Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-283 [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], publisher's blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The third of a trio of ingenious weird mystery thrillers, preceded by A TASTE OF HONEY and REPLY PAID. Hubin (1994), p. 388. Some tanning along gutter margins, else a fine copy in good pictorial dust jacket priced $2.00 on the front flap with age tanning, mainly internal but with show through on spine panel and along rear flap fold, and dust soiling to the rear panel. (#173818).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Psychological thriller. First UK edition. Published according to economy wartime standards. CONDITION: Used, good. No dust jacket. Boards and spine showing moderate age-related wear. Light foxing. No inscriptions. Binding very good.

Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-283 [284-288: blank] [note: last two leaves are blanks], original blue cloth, front and spine panels stamped in black, top edge stained yellow, fore-edge untrimmed, bottom edge rough trimmed. First edition. The third of a trio of ingenious weird mystery thrillers, preceded by A TASTE OF HONEY and REPLY PAID. Hubin (1994), p. 388. A fine copy in nearly fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to edges. (#131726).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First UK edition. First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6. One of Gerald Heard's key works of fiction under (in the US) his crime-writing pseudonym H.F. Heard, sitting alongside the Mycroft Holmes novels and The Great Fog in blending mystery with philosophical and psychological unease; it was lauded in contemporary reviews, including the New York Times, as a 'psychological horror storyof spine-tingling originality and excellence.' Some minor marking; cloth slightly sunned at foot of spine; jacket with edge wear including chipping with minor loss, some discolouration. Book.

First edition. Covers lightly soiled and spine panel a bit darkened, else a very good copy in dust jacket with light restoration to the spine ends. From the author who brought us A Taste For Honey comes a story of how reflection achieves murder. Young and handsome Arnoldo Signorli does away with his rich benefactress by a means never before employed either in fiction or reality, though scientists assure us that it is altogether feasible.