Spot Marked by Berkeley Gray (9 results)

Softcover. Condition: Good. White Circle Pocket Edition. CD 465. 160 p. 18 cm. Paperback. Some creases, tears and soiling to covers. Old price notation on front. Signature on title. Paper browned. "The Double-Cross Deluxe!" A Norman Conquest novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Reprint; Second Printing. Tightly bound hardback book, page edges grubby, no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased, minor loss at the spine ends, top of spine stained, 8p in ink on front cover. 192 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in burgundy cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 192pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. Rubbing and tears to dustjacket edges. (50/5).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket 8vo. pp 192. Original publishers burgundy cloth lettered silver gilt at spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. Very good indeed in near very good colour dust jacket with chipping at spine ends (slight loss) and slightly nicked edges. Front panel of colourfulj acket in good order showing a handsome man with a gun apparently supporting a person,possibly a woman, dressed in armour.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near fine copy , inscribed and signed by the author onto the ffep. 192 pages . No loss or tears or foxing. Dated 1948 on the copyright page. First UK edition. Outer maroon boards with silver lettering to the spine is unmarked and universal in colour throughout. The dust jacket is complete with no faults.Shows a price of 8s 6d net on the front flap. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Purple cloth with silver lettering. Light bumping to the spine ends and one corner lightly bumped, light foxing to the text block edges, clean throughout, binding tight and square. Dust jacket not price clipped but with a First Cheap Edition sticker at 5/- glued over the original price. A few little nicks to the jacket edges and a touch of sun to the spine, with glue residue across the top edge of the inside of the jacket from an old dust jacket protector.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good- in a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is slightly faded on the edges of the boards, the jacket is better, price clipped and with the usual slightly grubby white back,small hole on back panel,a few closed tears and creases, but a lovely illustrated front panel on a title which is rare, especially so in dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. The sixteenth thriller novel in Gray's 'The Norman Conquest' series, presented in the unclipped dust wrapper. First edition.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.'The Spot Marked 'X'' is the sixteenth novel in 'The Norman Conquest' series. In this thriller novel, Conquest 'takes the law into his own hands' with help from his wife Pixie as well as 'Sweet William'.Berkeley Gray (1889-1965), also known as Edwy Searles Brooks, was a British novelist who wrote the Sexton Blake novels, as well as The 'Ironsides Cromwell' novels. He wrote close to one-hundred novels, and is believed to have written around forty-million words.Collated, complete. In the publisher's original cloth binding, in the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. A bit of bumping to the extremities and head and tail of spine, along with fading to the bottom half of spine. Marks left from tape to endpapers. Light spotting to text block. Dust wrapper is sound, with marks and discolouration to wraps. Age-toning to margins of reverse. Edge wear to wraps, with chipping to spine region. Loss to bottom half of spine region. A few small closed tears to wraps, with a tape repair to the bottom edge of the front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very clean throughout, with light age-toning to pages. Very Good. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Spot Marked X by Berkeley Gray First Edition Collins 1948. No inscriptions, completely free of any signs of ownership. A near fine copy in a slightly rubbed VG dust jacket. Not price clipped. From the Anthony Lejeune collection.