Priestleys Problem by Anthony Berkeley, First Edition (9 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. First thus. Name to half-title. Worn copy with some loss to spine. 160g. 295 pages. This book has been carefully described by an experienced, independent, bookdealer, it is not for sale on other sites and the pictures are photographs of the actual book. [Loc. J6-3].

Softcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition Thus. Tightly bound paperback, spine creased, card covers creased and foxed, splits at spine ends, pages tanned and creased at corners, no inscriptions. 296 pages + 8 pages of publisher's adverts.

1st edition. Poor paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, creased and nicked. Spine worn, roughly rubbed as with age. Front cover torn (with some loss), slightly stained and creased. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 217 p 18 cm. Subject; Penguin books (series). 20th century literature. Crime novels. Crime fiction. Thrillers - 20th century. Mystery and crime. 3 Kg.

1st edition. Poor paperback copy; edges somewhat dust-dulled, creased and nicked. Spine worn, roughly rubbed as with age. Front cover torn (with some loss), slightly stained and creased. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 217 p 18 cm. Subject; Penguin books (series). 20th century literature. Crime novels. Crime fiction. Thrillers - 20th century. Mystery and crime. 1 Kg.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Edition. Subtitled 'An Extravaganza in Crime.' Penguin No 589. Spine has some surface wrinkling, browning to the white panel and some light edge rubbing. Light browning to the white centre panel of the rear cover which also has a two inch patch of discolouration and a small surface tear near the bottom left corner where a label has been removed. Pages a little browned with a trace of a price in pencil to the first page but otherwise unmarked. First printing of the Penguin edition. Originally published in 1927 by Collins under the name A.B. Cox. All editions of this book are very rare.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Green Penguin edition 1948. Mottled tanning to back cover. Spine slightly rumpled, with slight shelf-lean. Vg condition in other respects. Firmly bound, no annotations or tears. Softback book.

1st Penguin edition. "What would the ordinary decent man do if he killed a fellow-creature inadvertently, and there was no evidence against him?" Pp.295/4(publisher's catalogue), pages tanned, owner's name to half-title page. Paperback, cocked with spine tanned and creased, wear to top and tail and spine edges. Scarce. Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. First Edition. First U.S. edition, published in England as "Mr. Priestley's Problem." It began with an arguement: How would a respectable, ordinary man behave if he thought he'd committed a murder? Ex-library with stamps to the rear pastedown. Yellow, soiled boards with black print and a beverage ring on the front. Bumped and rubbed with wear and fraying at the edges. Spine darkened, 2" tear up the lower front spine fold with the remnants of brown tape across. Hinges cracked, rear breaking, binding loose, page 335 detached and laid in. Jacket blurb glued to the front end paper. Still, a very scarce first edition. Ex-Library.

Third printing of the 1927 first edition. Publisher's original black cloth with red titles to the spine and upper board, in dustwrapper. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with bumping and rubbing to the extremities, the spine a touch faded and a few light marks to the cloth at fore-edge. The content's, with a previous owner's bookplate and shelf stamp to the front pastedown and his ownership name and date to the top of the title page, are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed, creased and nicked dustwrapper, that has a few short closed tears and small chips at the folds and is otherwise bright and attractive. A scarce mystery novel from the founding member of The Detection Club who also wrote under the pseudonyms Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley, and A. Monmouth Platts. Two amateur criminologists stage a mock murder to see how the alleged murderer reacts. (Hubin). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.