Winds Evil, First Edition (14 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Printing. Standard used reading condition or better. Used Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Bacon, Paul (cover) (illustrator). 1st Collier printing. Spine somewhat rolled, a bit creased, light reading crease, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing, a little soiling to back cover. A little tanning but text is clean and unmarked. A nice copy. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 256 pages; "When Bony sets out to investigate two bizarre murders at Wirragatta Station deep in the Australian outback, all the odds are against him. The crimes were committed a year before, the scent is now cold, and any surviving clues have been confused by a bumbling policeman. As Bony gets closer to the trail, the mysterious murderer sets out to stop him. Can Bony stop the killer first? ".

softcover. Condition: nf. pb 1225.

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. No previous owner names or inscriptions.

FIRST EDITION THUS, octavo, black heavy boards, gilt lettering to spine, 256pp, VG (light bruising to extrems, moderate to heavy discolouration to spine & boards, light tanning & foxing to page edges & eps, prev. owner's name in ink to ffep, occasional light foxing to pages, 1cm closed tear to top edge of pg97, minor vertical wrinkling to some page edges) in d/w, VG- (price clipped, light creasing & chipping to edges with obvious heavy tape reinforcement to edges- moderate tape staining also, heavy chipping & tearing to spine, moderate foxing & soiling to rear).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Ex-libris plate to inside cover, but an otherwise tight and clean copy, with no inscriptions, no foxing to contents, and no remainder mark. Cover is in great condition, with an uncreased/unbroken spine. An excellent condition book, perfect for any collector of crime/mystery. 189pp. (11x18cm). Please contact us for any more information.

Condition: Fair. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1944. 1st edition. Sm 8vo hardcover. viii+230pp. Map. Fair book. No dust jacket. Remnants of DJ adhered to the boards and pastedowns. Half of rear pastedown torn away. Owner's name on front endpage. Slightly dampstained. (Detectives, Mystery) Inquire if you need further information.

Mayflower-Dell, London. 1964. First edition. Paperback. Covers are a little rubbed and lightly soiled. Page margins browned o/w a lovely copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Red cloth hardcover, dust jacket is in mylar--it is tattered and has some paper loss. It does show the $2.00 price showing. 230, full page sketch map; spine lettered and decorated in cream, the boards a trifle cocked, the back board of the hardcover is slightly soiled and the last page soiled as well. Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York, 1944. First U.S. edition. Loder p. 232. *The fifth \i Bony novel, set in a country town near Broken Hill. Originally published in Australia by Angus & Robertson in 1937. The first British edition was published by Hutchinson in 1939. We ship fast.

Condition: Gut. Deutsche Erstausgabe. 188 (4) Seiten. 19,5 cm. Schutzumschlagentwurf: Eyke Vokmer. Lesetipp des Bouquinisten! Guter Zustand. Seiten papierbedingt leicht gebräunt. Mit zusätzlicher Einbandfolierung versehen. Ein Inspektor-Bonaparte-Roman. »Arthur W. Upfield war ein geborener Geschichtenerzähler. Kaum ein anderer Autor hat es wie er verstanden, eine scheinbar tote Wüste mit solch buntem Leben zu füllen, und keinem ist es wie ihm gelungen, die unerwartete Schönheit der australischen Hügel und Wälder und Felsenküsten mitzuteilen.« The Times. Zwei mysteriöse Morde - ohne Motiv. Als Tramp verkleidet führt Inspektor Bonaparte seine Ermittlungen. Da erschreckt ein neuer Mordversuch die Leute von Carie. Bony stellt dem Würger eine Falle - mit dem vermeintlichen Mörder als Köder. - Arthur William Upfield (* 1. September 1890 in Gosport, Hampshire, England; 12. Februar 1964 in Bowral, New South Wales) war ein britisch-australischer Autor von Kriminalromanen. Upfield ging 1910 nach Australien. Bis 1914 streifte er durch den Kontinent und hielt sich mit Gelegenheitsjobs über Wasser. Nach dem Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs ließ er sich für immer in Australien nieder. Die Natur und die Menschen des Kontinents faszinierten ihn. Die Erfahrungen dieser Zeit prägen die 28 Kriminalromane um den Kriminalinspektor Napoleon Bony Bonaparte, die Upfield ab 1929 veröffentlichte. Bony, der Sohn eines weißen Vaters und einer Aborigines-Mutter ist ein ausgezeichneter Spurenleser und Kriminalist, der schier unlösbare Verbrechen aufklärt. Die Erzählungen von Bonys Fähigkeit, die Natur zu lesen, seiner Geduld und Intuition sowie seinem kombinatorischen Scharfsinn verschaffen eine spannende Lektüre. . Upfield versetzt die klassische Who-dun-it-Konstruktion des Detektivromans in eine für die meisten Leser exotische Umgebung. Eine gekonnte Schilderung der grandiosen Landschaften Australiens und seiner Natur zusammen mit einer in Romanen seltenen Darstellung der Kultur der australischen Ureinwohner verschaffen den Kriminalromanen Upfields eine besondere Rolle in diesem Genre. Neben zwei Auszeichnungen war Upfield 1956 auch für den Gold Dagger der britischen Crime Writers' Association für The Cake in the Hatbox (dt. Der schwarze Brunnen, US: Sinister Stones) nominiert. Im deutschsprachigen Raum erscheinen die Romane Upfields seit Mitte der 50er Jahre in der Buchserie Rote Reihe des Goldmann Verlags, der die Bücher kontinuierlich neu auflegt. . . . Aus: wikipedia-Arthur_W._Upfield. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 270 Rotes Leinen mit Schutzumschlag.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. First U. S. edition of this early Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte mystery, with the map of Carie in the far west of New South Wales. Bony is back in the Australian bush country to investigate two stranglings that occured the year before. Bumped and rubbed, spine a bit cocked with the lower edge of the front board darkened. Tape residue and darkening to the end papers. Jacket rubbed with chips and tears, including a 1" chip to the lower front panel near the flap fold and a bit of loss to the spine head. Damp stains to the front flap and the upper and lower rear panel, tape residue to the flaps. $2.00 price intact, in new mylar. Laid in is The Bony Bulletin, No. 25, July 1988. A 6 page fanzine, this issue includes a reprint of a map Upfield included in his personal Christmas card which shows the location of each Bony mystery to that time (along with the editor's quibbles over the accuracy of Upfield's map.) Scarce in jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Original red cloth with text in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 257 pp. Map endpapers. Previous owner signature and stamp to the half title. The book is solid and complete. The corners are bent a bit and there is rubbing to the spine ends. The pages are white and clean but there are some foxing spots to the edges. A very early novel from Upfield as well as an early "Bony" title. Now extremely scarce. Very Good.

First Edition. Pp. [vi]+258(last colophon), endpaper sketch map; cr. 8vo; red cloth, spine and upper board lettered and ruled in black, the boards a trifle canted, top fore-corners faintly bruised; name in ink and bookseller's sticker on upper pastedown, hinge tender near centre, scattered foxing (heavier on outer leaves); Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1937. First Australian edition. Loder p. 232. *Lacking the dust wrapper. Bony's fifth case, set in a country town near Broken Hill, New South Wales. Also serialised (prior or simultaneously) in The Australian Journal, with the final part appearing on 1 October 1937.