Strange Inheritance, First Edition (11 results)

1st, signed by author. Crisp account of red-baiting in the USA dominated by Senator Joe McCarthy. Author inscription. 184 pp. ISBN 0745301053 M paperback; VG, light edgewear.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. Both book and dustwrapper are in very good condition.

Hard Cover. No Jacket. First UK Edition. The boards are cocked; the spine is faded, but not the print and the front boards are slightly rubbed. There is an ownership inscription on the front end paper and the front hinge is exposed towards the bottom at the title page; page 65, partially detached, has been reinforced with acid free tape. Good ++ copy Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Softcover. 1st Penguin Edition. 12mo [approx 11x18cm]. Very Good condition. Some quite mild foxing to page edges and inside of covers. Pages lightly tanned. Previous owner's signature to preliminary pages. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 206 pages. Mistrust, intrigue, scandal, surround 19 year-old Gilles, back in his home town after years abroad. Undle Octave is dead. Gilles is sole heir to his fortune. But what was the source of Uncle Octave's sinister power over his family and business rivals? What ugly secrets lie in his safe, which no one can open? Was his attractive young widow concerned in his death?

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Edition. First English edition in poor condition. No jacket, tea/coffee mark on front panel, faded spine. The book is slant, with the front cover set forward. No problem with text pages.

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. First UK edition. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. The boards have a large patch of discolouration over the bottom half of the front panel which also has some small stains to the top half. Very heavy fading to the spine which has slight fraying at the top and bottom. The rear panel has a little surface marking and the boards have rubbing to the corners. The page edges are a little browned with a few scattered spots. The endpapers are browned and there is a two inch stain on page 11 but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. No jacket. First printing.

Routledge & Keagan Paul. London. 1950. First edition, UK. Hardback, no DW. Original green cloth with black lettering to spine. Boards are lightly soiled, and spine is sunned and has a very slight lean otherwise a lovely clean and sound copy.

VG bright copy in publishers cloth in like dustjacket. 1st edition, 1st issue. ISBN 0859551040.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1950). First UK Edition in dustwrapper priced 9s 6d net to the inside flap (and over-stamped )VERSEAS EDITION. pp222. Publisher's turquoise cloth with black titles to spine. About very good (spine faded to a lighter hue and more so to the spine tips matching wear in the dustwrapper; there is a neat name in caps to the front free end-paper). The dustwrapper has a slither of loss at the tip of the spine (not affecting any lettering) and a couple of chips at the tail that remove the "R" of ROUTLEDGE and most of "KEGAN". Quite a nice copy. Seldom found in really nice condition due to the fragility of the wrapper. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hard Cover. FIRST BRITISH EDITION. Octavo, pp. 222. Publisher's jade green cloth with title blocked in black to spine in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket. Spine and areas of boards sunned, some loss and edgewear to dust-jacket, dust-jacket spine also sunned. Strange Inheritane by the famed Maigret author Georges Simenon follows protagonist Gilles returning from Norway to find his uncle has died and left a huge fortune, ownership of a transport company and house should Gilles continue to let his family keep living there. As time passes, it seems this family may be keeping secrets about the death of Gilles uncle. Translated from French by Geoffery Sainsbury.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Abbey(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. The Strange Inheritance by Paul Trent (1st Ed) Abbey Cvr, Hubin Listed, File Copy A tight square copy with minor edge wear and mild offset tanning to endpapers. "File Copy" label to front panel. "Archive Copy" stamp to half-title. Rubbed edges with minor chips and an inch closed creased tear. Brodart cover. Title page dated 1921. Green cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.