GREAT SHORT STORIES OF DETECTION, MYSTERY AND HORROR PART FIVE by SAYERS, DOROTHY L

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1948. Sixth Impression. 1147 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Pen markings to front free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Moderate splits to spine ends and corners causing cloth to be frayed. Visible wear marks to boards.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1961. Hardcover. Good. 1961. 10th Impression. 476 pages. No dust jacket. Blue paper covered boards. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1948. Hardcover. Good. 1948. Sixth Impression. 1147 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to board edges and spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water stains to spine.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1963. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1963. Eighteenth Impression. 619 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Light foxing and moderate tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, much lighter to pastedowns and free endpapers. Mild staining to hinges. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild staining, tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has similar staining and tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1949. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1949. Seventh Impression. 1147 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards. Pages are heavily tanned and foxed throughout. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Hinges with tape repairs. Boards have heavy shelf wear with bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Some additional marks and staining to surfaces.

Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1947. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1947. Thirteenth Impression. 617 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Tiny hole extending from rear board to page 595. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Cloth has moderate damp and dust stains. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Gilt lettering is darkened. Sunning to spine.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1960. Hardcover. Good. 1960. Seventeenth impression. 617 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding loose. Minor pencil inscriptions to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces tanned and sunned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled. Some additional marks and staining.

London: Gollancz, 1950. Book. Good. Cloth. Sixth Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with brown titles to the spine, some edge wear, a little bumped. A classic early 20th C collection of some of the great detective/mystery short stories of the period. A thousand pages of supurb works. First puiblished in 1934..

Victor Gollancz, 1932. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1932. Second Impression. 1147 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Second series. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Previous owner's inscription to front free endpaper. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Visible white marks and scratches overall. Binding is noticeably shaky, but pages remain intact.

Hardcover. Good. Offered by the charity Langdon supporting people with disabilities.