Night Exercise by John Rhode (6 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The cover shows some edgewear with rubbing and a little creasing to the spine. The binding is sound. There is age toning inside the covers.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Line Drawn Cover Art. (illustrator). First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!. 192 pages. >> Canadian Collins White Circle Book # 72; >>" In addition to being a brilliantly told crime story, it presents an intriiguing picture of the British Home Guard getting ready to face an invasion." Preceded by the rare 1942 UK & USA Hardcovers; >>> VERY RARE TITLE by this Highly Collectible author; VERY RARE number in the Canadian Collins White Circle Collectible Vintage Paperback series; >> Store Stamp on front endpage; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Rare volume of the Collins White Circle Pocket novels. Book block is in good condition, the cover has some signs of use along the edges and some creases. Some tears and losses on the spine. Contains writing in pencil on the first page by previous owner.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. A widely disliked officer disappears during an anti-invasion drill by the British Home Guard during World War II. First U.S. edition, published the same year in the U.K. as "Night Exercise." Lightly bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the spine ends, spine a bit darkened. Hinges slightly loose.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. An excellent first edition, first impression of Cecil Street's wartime detective novel, complete with the original dust wrapper. First edition, first impression. Very scarce.With the equally very scarce original dust wrapper, clipped.During a night exercise for the Wealdhurst Home Guard, a widely detested Group Commander, Colonel Chalgrove, disappears under mysterious circumstances.A pleasing copy of this stand-alone detective novel written under the pen name of British writer Cecil Street, best known for his long-running Lancelot Priestley series. In the original cloth binding. With the original clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with only mild shelf wear. Dust wrapper is smart, with marks to the rear panel and minor edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. With very minor offsetting and one or two spots to the endpapers, otherwise bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

First edition, first impression, with the scarce jacket. This detective mystery draws on Street's service in the Home Guard between 1940 and 1942. Street (1884-1964) also wrote detective novels under the names John Street, Miles Burton, and Cecil Waye and books on the Royal Artillery under the pseudonym F.O.O. He was a member of the Detection Club, a 1930s literary group also including Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Ownership stamp of one Hugh McCormick to front pastedown. Extremities rubbed and a little bumped, spine gently toned, covers a little marked; jacket price-clipped, reinforced with brown paper, spine toned, rear panel browned: a very good copy in like jacket.