BONES IN LONDON by Wallace, Edgar - [cc 1920s]

First edition 1st printing, Good to Very Good book with light edge wear, starting at title page, spine lightly pushed top and bottom and very slight bump top front corner, in Very Good dust jacket that is price clipped, edge and corner wear with couple spots of very slight loss, several small creases along edges, mild sun fade on spine and some over write incisions front cover that do not penetrate the mylar, a classic signed by Block on the title page.

328+[5 ad] pages with diagrams and fold out plan. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's black cloth with yellow lettering to spine and cover in original jacket. (Firsts, volume 14, Number 9 page 29) First edition with the first printing "A" on copyright page, second state with the dates 1929, 1930. Wright wrote as a critic and journalist until 1923, when he became ill from what was given out as overwork, but was in reality a secret drug addiction, according to John Loughery's biography Alias S.S. Van Dine. His doctor confined him to bed (supposedly because of a heart ailment, but actually because of a cocaine addiction) for more than two years. In frustration and boredom, he began collecting and studying thousands of volumes of crime and detection. In 1926 this paid off with the publication of his first S. S. Van Dine novel, The Benson Murder Case. Wright took his pseudonym from the abbreviation of "steamship" and from Van Dine, which he claimed was an old family name. Wright… Read More

New York NY: Harper & Row, 1966. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 1966 Harper & Row Stated FIRST American Edition of the 5th Francis "jockey" mystery. It has a ***SIGNED*** card (You can keep it separate or choose to have us glue it in on either the 1st or 2nd title page.) Though ex-library it has only tape ghosts on the outer boards and a scrape on the inside rear page. The unclipped DJ shows very minor spine end and edge wear. In V G/VG+ condition. **Brenbooks specializes in first edition mysteries and carries many early Francis mysteries.**

The book is fine. The dust jacket shows minimal rubbing at the top of the spine.

277 pages. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6") bound in original publisher's quarter purple cloth with silver lettering to spine over blue boards, in original pictorial jacket. Inscribed First edition.One Monday, Robert Halliday receives a bomb threat in the mail. Two days later, the bomb arrives—accompanied by an offer of employment from one Karliss Zander, an international fixer. Unless Halliday agrees to help him edit the memoirs of a 19th century Russian terrorist and ghostwrite an exposé of modern terrorist governments, Zander will detonate the bomb. For the sake of self-preservation, Halliday joins the project—but quickly discovers that Zander requires more than mere literary assistance: He and his daughter are in mortal peril from a Middle Eastern terrorist group. Now tangled in this massive international web of danger, Halliday wonders if it wouldn't have been far less painful if that bomb had just gone off.Condition:Inscription to title. Jacket front fold over flap creased, light edge wear, spine… Read More

WI: Mycroft & Moran, 1969. VERY GOOD condition in VERY GOOD dust jacket. HARDCOVER. 1969. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Bound in black boards in appropriately eerie illustrated wraps by Frank Utpatel. Square and firm, original price intact. Small ghost image to front cover, bump to one corner, and some toning to page edges. Some toning and soiling and light edgewear to uncoated white pictorial dust jacket. Excellent series featuring psychic detective Miles Pennoyer. Five stories in this volume.. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good.

London: Orion. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1994. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1857979389 . 278 p. 22 cm. Sound and square binding, in black cloth-covered boards. Very light wear to corners and spine ends. Inside pages are clean, bright and unmarked. Dustwrapper has minor spine ends wear. Faint impression of a two digit number can be seen on front panel in certain light. Very lightly rubbed. The seventh Inspector John Rebus detective novel by British writer Ian Rankin. .

Freddy and the Bean Home News. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Alfred A. Knopf, copyright 1943, Fourth printing Thus, Jan., 1952. Exlib. No exterior marking. Good/ no DJ included. A clean, solid copy. Please also see our Freddy The Pig Catalogue.

Freddy The Cowboy. Hardcover. By Walter R. Brooks, Stated First Edition 1950, Alfred A. Knopf. ILLUSTRATED BY KURT WIESE. EX-LIB. Library bound. White titling on spine. Multi-hued, Raspberry, orange and lavender graphic cloth cover treatment. Square corners. Good Condition /No dust jacket is included. A clean, solid copy.

Freddy And Mr. Camphor. By Walter R. Brooks. Illustrated by Kurt Wiese. Hardcover. Used. Good Condition/No Dust jacket included. Alfred A. Knopf 1944 Stated First Edition. A solid copy. Spine is sunned. Please see our photos. Summary: In Freddy and Mr. Camphor, Freddy is in need of a change and finds an opportunity for one as a caretaker on Mr. Camphor's houseboat. Of course, things never go as Freddy expects and a series of strange, amusing, and sometimes alarming adventures ensue. Please also see our Freddy The Pig catalogue.