The Clock Ticks on by Valentine Williams (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.95.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. pages have browned with age and some water stains on edges but very readable, knocking on the edges and corners of hardcover. spine intact.

Hard Cover. Condition: vg-. 303pp; interior clean, toned eps; 7.5" tall; light wear to edges of brown cover, blind stamped front & gilt lettering on spine; no dj. Hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Reprint. An edition from Collier's Secret Service Series. Brown embossed boards (Secret Service Series diagonally across the front cover) with gold lettering & decoration on the spine. The book is in decent shape but has some condition issues - spotty loss to the top stain (silverfish most likely), loss along the fore edge of the rear past down & RFEP (once again, silverfish most likely), a small hole to the top corner of the page preceding the RFEP, and a 1.5" piece missing from the lower middle of the front spine hinge. The binding is tight and the pages are lightly browned but unmarked. A decent reading copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Has homemade due date list and pocket on endpaper -- looks like a child's project. Blue dot on spine. ; Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 303 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Handsomely bound with "Secret Service Series" text embossed on front cover. Spine has gilt title and decorative design. Inside front cover is bookstore stamp (Cincinnati, OH). Unmarked throughout. We carry the companion volumes in this same series. Nice collectables.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. ISBN Hardback. No dustjacket. No statement of later printing on copyright page. A tight sound copy with average wear but pretty much a nice tight sound reading copy only due to a fair amount of glue residue and some paper stripping to the front free endpaper. Book looks to be an old ex-rental library copy, but all the now removed markings were on that one page.

Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. 303pp plus 9pp of ads for additional titles Business stamp inside front cover, otherwise book is FINE Dust jacket has chips and tears including large chip on bottom of spine Protective mylar cover over dust jacket.

Condition: Very Good. NY Collier 1933. 1/0/00 Binding: Unknown VG. in no dj brown c wgilt lettering; rubbing at spinetips 303 pages. 12vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 5 volumes, All HC w/no dust jackets. Collier copyright dates between 1933 and 1936. VG+ condition, just a bit of scribbling inside each cover. No other markings. Brown boards w/gilt lettering. Secret Service series.At Streamside Books, each book is individually selected and accurately described. Email with any question or to request a picture of a book. Please include our book number in your inquiry. If paying by check or money order, please make it out to Steve Katz. Thank You.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Six volumes in the Collier uniform edition (1930s) of the Secret Service Series, in brown embossed boards, no dust-jackets, have minor shelf-wear, tight and unmarked. Further details on request, of course. Not ex-library, price includes extra postage.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. A crime novel. Pocket-sized edition in publishers blind-stamped red cloth, titled black. Spine & boards a little sunned & marked but contents clean and complete.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Dust jacket is price clipped and has a corner chip. Out of print. Scarce in dust jacket. Brodart included. Binding is cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth over boards with dark blue lettering to cover, spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1933. 320 pages. Good condition. Covers rubbed, bleached at edges and spine. Page edges toned and foxed. Pages otherwise clean. Some pencil writing to front free end page. Binding intact but feels loose. First edition of this mystery novel.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good+ in boards. ; Secret Service Series.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: no dust jackets. Demy octavo, [18.75cm/7.5inches], full gilt-embossed walnut-coloured cloth sans dust jackets. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. . Valentine Williams (18831946) was a journalist and mystery writer. He was the eldest son of the chief editor at Reuters. He replaced Austin Harrison as the Reuters correspondent in Berlin in 1905, aged 21. Harold Nicolson met him in connection with events at Versailles and described in a diary entry that "He is far too intelligent to be employed by such a paper" (the Daily Mail). It was during this period that he began writing thrillers and around 1926 he gave up his post as Foreign Editor of the Daily Mail to pursue a full-time career as an author. Williams was too old for active service at the outbreak of World War II. He joined the Secret Intelligence Service, vetting potential new recruits such as Malcolm Muggeridge and Kim Philby. He was transferred to the British Embassy in Washington in 1941 but soon after left for Hollywood, where he worked as a scriptwriter for Twentieth-Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn Mayer. In exceptionally good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Black cloth with white lettering, a few light scuffs to the front board, price intact dust jacket with a light scratch to the front cover, a small closed tear to foot of spine, and a few light creases, but overall a near fine copy. First American edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Dust-jacket: Y. First edition: Y. First edition. 8vo. Original light blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6. Slight shelf lean, o/w VG; jacket with small split near head of spine, some light rubbing and dust-soiling, but overall VG-. Jacket artwork initialed T.K. Attractive first edition by an author who straddled both espionage and crime fiction. A race against time to save an innocent man from the gallows. Signed: N.