Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Blue paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking.
Published by Collins White Circle, 1953
Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom
Softcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Reprint. Clean tightly bound paperback, spine creased and worn, card covers creased, pages age tanned, no inscriptions. 192 pages. Not dateed but assume early 1950s. White Circle no.395m.
US$ 16.60
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Hardback. With dust jacket. Foxing to all pages, text clear. Photograph available on request.
8vo, 192pp. Original cloth inpredominantly green pictorial wrapper, edgeworn, chipped and slightly rubbed. Pages slighlty yellowed. A very good copy.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Wine cloth stamped in silver on spine. Clean boards, very light foxing in edges and endpapers, a name in front. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Wine cloth stamped in silver on spine. Tidy and square, slightly faded at the spine, a pencilled name on front paste-down. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Collins, 1949
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 27.69
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. VG with a triangle of spine fade to base of cloth where jacket has some loss. Jacket Good overall, not priced at flap with some rubbing and tears and aforementioned notch of loss to base of spine.
US$ 19.38
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Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Not dated (c.1950). pp.192. Blue boards, gilt. endpapers lightly spotted and edges of page block and margins tanned. In a good protected dustjackey with waer to head and foot of spine and corners.
Published by Collins, 1956
Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 24.92
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. Reading copy, an ex private library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, tape marks to endpapers, in a price clipped cut down dustjacket which is rippled and has a short closed tear to top of front cover. 192 pages.
Published by Collins, 1949
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book has no inscriptions. Original red boards are a little shelf rubbed and marked. Binding is excellent, tight and square. Overall, very good++. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
US$ 23.52
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Good. Some foxing and tanning to pages. Some wear and tear to dust jacket. Photograph available on request.
Published by Collins London nd. c.1960, 1960
Seller: Andrew Barnes Books / Military Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
First Edition
1st ed. thus hardback with dust jacket Nice copy tall octavo 192pp., A Norman Conquest story. Very nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket. PHOTO available.
Language: English
Published by COLLINS., LONDON., 1949
Seller: Baggins Books and Collectables, Market Harborough, LEICE, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 83.06
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. A fine copy that seems unread. 192 immaculate pages with no loss or foxing. Dated 1949 first UK edition. The outer maroon boards are unmarked throughout. The dust jacket has no faults at all. A great addition to any collection and more so in such fine condition.
Language: English
Published by Collins, London, 1965
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
No Binding. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Scarce title. Burgundy boards titled in silver on spine. Ex-shop library with tape marks on the boards, moderate markings in endpapers only, some rust spotting. Bindings are tight but slightly tilted. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
Published by Collins, London, 1959
Seller: William Collins Rare Books, PBFA, Grimsby, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 32.87
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex library. Stamp to front pastedown and title page otherwise quite clean. Boards worn hinge is firm but spine is frayed on hinge.
US$ 41.53
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A near Fine copy of the first edition, in a lovely,bright VG+ dust jacket, one closed tear, just a little wear to top and tail of jacket spine.
Language: English
Published by COLLINS., LONDON., 1964
Seller: Baggins Books and Collectables, Market Harborough, LEICE, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 96.90
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. MURDER AT THE MOTEL by VICTOR GUNN first UK edition Published by Collins in 1964 The book is in very good condition. 192 pages. Contents are complete, clean and tight. No marks or inscriptions. Maroon boards are exceptionally clean and bright. Dust jacket has minor edge wear with irregular crease and closed tear to top of the front panel. Not priceclipped at 12s 6d net. VG+ book in VG jacket. Quite a nice copy.
Language: English
Published by Collins, London
Seller: edward syndercombe, Pretoria, GAUTE, South Africa
No date hardcover with dust jacket. The book is in very good condition. clean. square and tight. prev owners signature on front endpaper, pages dust tanned. The dust jacket is very good condition. clean and bright. See photos. Postage quoted covers courier door to door delivery.
US$ 41.53
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 192. Original publisher's blue cloth, lettered gilt at the spine. Very good indeed in very good dust jacket. Excellent condition. Front panel of jacket in good order showing a gentleman fencing with Death.
Published by London Collins 1959, 1959
Seller: Christian White Rare Books Ltd, Ilkley, YORKS, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 48.45
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCondition: Very Good. First edition of this Collins Thriller. Very good in burgundy cloth with silver titles, red stains to end papers, browning to edges and occasional spotting to pages. In a very good, lightly rubbed, dust jacket, price clipped, with remains of a library stamp to rear flap. There are no library marks or stamps in the book. Very Good Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item.
Language: English
Published by Collins, London, 1958
Seller: Mainly Fiction, Auckland, New Zealand
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Very scarce title. Burgundy cloth titled in silver on spine. Almost near fine. Tight and square, clean boards, toned edges, faint foxing in endpapers, a small store stamp in front. Dust jacket is price clipped, small edge tears, slight loss at spine ends and top corners, unfaded, protected in a removable clear film sleeve.
Published by Collins, 1949
Seller: Hadwebutknown, Birnam, PERTH, United Kingdom
First Edition
US$ 48.45
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst Edition. A Norman Conquest thriller. First edition. Purple cloth with silver titles. VG in VG- jacket which has small chips to head of spine, has its price of 8/6d to the front flap and is protected in a removable mylar sleeve.
Published by Collins 1949-1952, London, 1949
US$ 166.11
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketCloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). Four volumes from Berkeley Gray's Norman Conquest series. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Four works from Berkeley Gray's crime fiction series featuring Norman Conquest, including a first edition of Duel Murder. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Edwy Searles Brooks was a popular crime writer in the early twentieth century, writing under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. The series was published between 1938 and 1969 and follow the 'breakneck sleuthing' of Norman Conquest. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, found in the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, generally smart, with just some light rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Duel Murder is more worn than the other volumes, with some moderate bumping and light rubbing to the boards, a little loss of wrap to the head and tail of the spine, and a two-inch closed tear to the wrap at the rear board. The wraps to the remaining volumes are lightly rubbed with some handling marks. The front hinge of The Conquest Touch is starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. The pages of Duel Murder are rather age-toned but otherwise pages are generally bright and clean across the collection. Very Good. book.
Published by London: Collins., 1951
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
First Edition Signed
US$ 657.53
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketFirst edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Publisher's original burgundy cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents toned due to the poor quality paper stock are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed, nicked and creased dustwrapper, correctly priced 8s 6d net to the front flap. One of the author's scarcest titles under the Victor Gunn pseudonym, rare in presentation state. Inscribed by the author in blue ink on the front endpaper "To dear Nellie / With loads of love / Edwy [underlined] / Victor Gunn". (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.