P. Moran Operative
Percival Wilde
Published by Random House, 1947
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Good hardcover with poor unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior. Jacket has significant wear to extremities including several open and closed tears. Book has abrasions on rear bookboard. Page edges are toned due to age and have moderate chipping. Pages feature a deckle edge. Top page edge features decorative stain. Seller Inventory # ABE-1718814265891
Bibliographic Details
Title: P. Moran Operative
Publisher: Random House
Publication Date: 1947
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Poor
Edition: 1st Edition
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P. MORAN, OPERATIVE
Published by
Victor Gollancz Ltd, London, 1947
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Hardcover
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First British edition. Octavo, cloth. Humorous stories with Pete Moran, correspondence school detective. [Reference: Hubin, p. 862]. A very good copy in a good dust jacket with wear and chips to spine ends, small tear with wrinkles to lower right front corner, age darkening to spine panel. (22534). Seller Inventory # 22534
P. Moran, Operative
Published by
Random House
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: ThriftBooksVintage, Tukwila, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Dust jacket missing. First printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Light bumping visible to corners of boards and ends of spine strip. Light scuffing and smudging to boards and spine strip. Secure packaging for safe delivery. Seller Inventory # 1874360531
P. Moran, Operative - First Edition with Dust Jacket
Published by
Random House, New York, 1947
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Long Brothers Fine & Rare Books, ABAA, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust jacket illustration by H. Lawrence Hoffman (illustrator). First Edition. 8vo. Pp. 214. Black cloth, titles and illustration stamped in red and gilt, pale blue illustrated endpapers, red topstain, book design by Andor Braun: board edges rubbed, minimal toning to leaf edges, Ventura School for Girls bookplate on the front free endpaper. In the color illustrated dust jacket, price clipped, with author portrait photo on the rear flap: spine ends and edges chipped, spine a tad sunned. A collection of seven humorous short stories featuring a hapless sleuth in training. A presentable copy with dust jacket is now housed in a removable clear archival sleeve. HUBIN, p. 437. Seller Inventory # 8262
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P. MORAN, OPERATIVE
Published by
Random House [1947], New York, 1947
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First edition. Octavo, cloth. Humorous stories with Pete Moran, correspondence school detective. [Reference: Hubin, p. 862]. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust jacket with mild rubbing to black ink background of jacket. (22476). Seller Inventory # 22476
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P. Moran Operative (From the Personal Library of Dust-Jacket Illustrator H. Lawrence Hoffman)
Published by
Random House, New York, 1947
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. H. Lawrence Hoffman (illustrator). 1st Edition. 8vo., 214pp. Sharp Stated First Printing of this quite humorous anthology of a bumbling but ultimately effective sleuth. Bound in black cloth with titles in black and gilt on the spine upon red and gold backgrounds. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of softness to spine ends and a hint of toning to page edges. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.50), has some tiny chips to extremities and a couple of tiny edge-tears. Still quite fresh and bright and presents very well. Though not marked in any way, this came directly from the library of H. Lawrence Hoffman who illustrated the dust-jacket. His son, David Hoffman, the noted documentary filmmaker, has signed a statement with information about his father, the artist, and attesting that the book was from his library. A copy of this is included. A very pretty collectable copy. Seller Inventory # 017938
P. Moran, Operative
Published by
New York Random House 1947, 1947
Used
First Edition
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
First Edition. Near fine copy in a slightly used dust jacket with some edge wear and small chips and tears. A comic novel featuring a mail order sleuth named P. Moran. Seller Inventory # 20004E
P. Moran, Operative
Published by
Random House, New York, 1947
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A well presented first edition of this collection of humorous detective stories, following the stories of Pete Moran, an unsuccessful student of detection. An uncommon first edition of this work in original publisher's cloth binding and unclipped dust wrapper. This work was written by American author and playwright, Percival Wilde, who is best known for his many one-act plays. He had a very thorough style of research and for this particular novel he enrolled in a correspondence course for detecting. He took this course under a pseudonym, giving the best answers he could whilst using the worst english and spelling. P. Moran, Operative, follows the experiences of Pete Moran in his course of detection. Despite the best intentions, Pete has the longest track record for never being right. This work contains seven short stories of Moran's adventures. In original publisher's cloth binding with decorative detailing to the spine and original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent with very minor shelf wear. Light bumping to head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper in excellent condition, with minor chipping to the extremities. The odd mark to the wrap, mainly to the rear. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Near Fine. book. Seller Inventory # 872Q10
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P. Moran, Operative by Percival Wilde (First UK Edition) File Copy
Published by
Victor Gollancz, London, 1947
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. P. Moran, Operative by Percival Wilde (First UK Edition) File Copy A very firm square copy with "Archive Copy" stamp to title page. Slight sun fade to the jacket. A tiny closed tear to cover corner tip and a half-inch closed tear to flap fold. Publisher's "47" to back cover corner. Brodart cover. Publisher's File Copy. First UK printing. (Random House, New York also published 1947). Seven stories. Most first appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine. BOOK. Seller Inventory # HCX7711-1