The Wheel Spins (The Lady Vanishes) by Ethel Lina White - 1936: The Lady Vanishes

Paperback / softback. New.

British Library Publishing, 10/07/2023 00:00:01. paperback. New. **PAPERBACK**

Paperback / softback. New. First published in 1936 and adapted for the screen as The Lady Vanishes by Alfred Hitchcock in 1938, Ethel Lina White's suspenseful mystery remains her best-known novel, worthy of acknowledgement as a classic of the genre in its own right.

E-Artnow, 2022. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

SOFTBACK ?PAN No: 203,?SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1952* Publisher: Pan Books.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. Some chips at head & tail of spine. Light creases, ageing & slight lean to spine, hinges good. ACC+* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Considerable overall tanning. Otherwise, GD* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 192 pp.* Product Description:- This thriller is one of those seminally adapted by Arthur Hitchcock for the Cinema. The original title, The Wheel Spins, was changed to its present one by Hitchcock for the film and it was known from then on by this title. A single woman, Iris Carr, on a continental train journey is befriended by an English governess, Miss Froy who disappears whilst Iris is asleep. From then on despite her extensive efforts to find the governess, everyone else on… Read More

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1969. 1st thus. hardbound. Very Good in G-VG dustwrapper/Dustwrapper. 8vo. Jacket Design by Beverly Lebarrow Classic thriller, first published in 1936 as The Wheel Spins, soon after adapted to the screen by Alfred Hitchcock as The Lady Vanishes; being a volume in the Hamish and Hamilton Fingerprint Books series; blue boards with gilt titling and fingerprint motif in gilt to spine; minor worn spot to front endpaper, mild tanning to endpapers, light foxing to prelims, medium foxing to text block, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper lightly edgeworn and rubbed, o.w. Very Good.

2020 - 1st ed ("1" in number line) - SIGNED by author on the title page - "Godshot is the kind of book you find yourself thinking about incessantly." - Kristen Arnett - book: near fine - dj: near fine - dj in protective mylar sleeve"Drought has settled on the town of Peaches, California. The area of the Central Valley where fourteen–year–old Lacey May and her alcoholic mother live was once an agricultural paradise. Now it's an environmental disaster, a place of cracked earth and barren raisin farms. In their desperation, residents have turned to a cult leader named Pastor Vern for guidance. He promises, through secret "assignments," to bring the rain everybody is praying for.Lacey has no reason to doubt the pastor. But then her life explodes in a single unimaginable act of abandonment: her mother, exiled from the community for her sins, leaves Lacey and runs off with a man she barely knows. Abandoned and distraught, Lacey May moves in with her widowed grandma, Cherry, who is more concerned with… Read More

New York: Pocket Book edition, 1966, 20th printing. Pocket Book 50447. Vintage pulp fiction paperback, x, [2], 194pp., advert., cover price 50 cents.. Very Good Condition with bright cover page. Slight cover and spine creasing. There are bumped corners, and signs of shelf wear, top right corner of cover with slight crease and lower edges of cover worn. Pages are unmarked. Please see photos for specifics. A portion of all book sales from Babcock & 68th are donated to charity.

London: Arthur Barker Ltd. 1st Edition, 1975 ----------hardcover, with dust jacket. The book, in black boards with orange lettering and design to the spine, is an unblemished near fine copy. The unclipped jacket has light wear to the front panel top edge and spine extremities, and is almost near fine.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Note: our prices on Biblio are the LOWEST of any of the sites on which we list our books.

First Edition. (1993) Hardcover with d.j. Fine with near fine dust jacket. D.J. has slight curl on top edge and light rubbing on back. No worn edges. Tight binding with clean, sharp pages. No markings. 305 pages. Dolores Claiborne is a psychological thriller novel. The novel is narrated by the title character. Atypically for a King novel, it has no chapters, double-spacing between paragraphs, or other section breaks; thus the text is a single continuous narrative which reads like the transcription of a spoken monologue. This book is dedicated to King's mother: "For my mother, Ruth Pillsbury King."

Hyperion, 2001. hardcover. New. Author Signed Hardcover Book. 2001 NY: Hyperion First edition, first printing, fine, no dust jacket as issued, signed by the author. This is a collectible book free from material defects. Jacket covering services are available for a small fee.

1982. Fine. Book Club Edition. Hardcover and dust jacket. D.j. is near fine with slight wear on top binding edge. Inside flap d.j has slight creases. Cover is smooth, unblemished, no tears, nicks or worn corners. Hardcover, as new, black boards with gilt lettering on spine. Tight binding, sharp, clean pages. No markings. (Actual photo) A flawless copy. 208 pages. "A" Is for Alibi is crime writer Sue Grafton's first mystery novel in the Kinsey Millhone "Alphabet mystery" series, first published in 1982.

The Seven Dials Mystery (Midnight Mysteries) 1944 Books, Inc. Stated 1st. Pr. Thus) RARE IN THIS EDITION. By Agatha Christie. USED. Good-/ No DJ. Black boards, gold titling on spine. Light pop bottle rings mar front board. Original copyright by Dodd, Mead 1929. Loose last gather has been neatly taped in. A clean copy. Summary: "When Gerald Wade died, apparently from an overdose of sleeping draught seven clocks appeared on the mantelpiece. Who put them there and had they any connection with the night club in Seven Dials? This is the mystery that Bill Eversleigh and Bundle and two other young people set out to investigate...".

Murder for Christmas, a Poirot Story by Agatha Christie (1944 Midnite Mystery) COPYRIGHT BY AGATHA CHRISTIE MALLOWAN: "It is Christmas Eve, and elderly Simeon Lee is found violently murdered in his locked office. The police are immediately called, but of course nobody has a clue until Hercule Poirot arrives..." USED. 1944 Books inc. Midnite Mystery. Copyright 1938 - 1939 Agatha Christie Mallowan. Good+/ No DJ. Black boards with gold titling on spine. Titles gilting is still nice Scarce.

Collins White Circle Pocket Edition #228. Great 1940s cover! Colonel Anthony Gethryn must prove a man innocent of a murder he's been convicted for in only 5 days. MacDonald was a great practitioner of the mystery-suspense genre; his books remain readable, even if his characters are nowhere near as enlightened as we tend to be today. Please read this volume in its historical context. A very clean copy, spine slightly darkened with very faint reading crease: see photos.

New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. New York, NY, U. S. A.: Little, Brown & Company, 1989. Near Fine in Very Good jacket Remainder A Dave Robicheaux mystery, Edgar Award winner npc, 290pp. rem po inscription on front pastedown, behind dj flap. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Near Fine. Remainder. First Edition