Search Results: the daughter of time by tey

London: Peter Davies, 1951. A first edition, first printing published by Peter Davies in 1951. A very good+ book with one small name to the endpaper - fading to the spine, in a very good clipped wrapper which has benefitted from some neat professional repair to the spine tips and corners (visible on the interior). A rare book and a classic British mystery set in the reign of Richard III

Comments: D-j chipped and pc'd. Minor wear to headcap. Spine slightly cocked. Pastedown on inside front cover is raised in one spot.
Synopsis: Inspector Alan Grant, laid up in hospital, has friends research reference books and contemporary documents so that he can puzzle out the mystery of whether King Richard III of England murdered his nephews, the Princes in the Tower. Grant comes to the firm conclusion that King Richard was totally innocent of the death of the Princes (now doubted by historians, principally Alison Weir). Especially relevant after the discovery of the King's remains in a Leicester car park.
Josephine Tey (Elizabeth Mackintosh (1896-1952), wrote her most famous book just one year before her tragically early death from cancer. In 1990, The Daughter of Time was selected by the British based Crime Writer's Association as the greatest mystery novel of all time. Very scarce in this early impression.

Folio Society,, 2018. 8vo., First Edition thus, with frontispiece, 6 coloured illustrations and printed endpapers; blue pictorial cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in black and white, a fine copy in publisher's board slip-case.

New York: Pocket Books, 1977. First Pocket Books printing, Jan 1977 is Acceptable in illus wraps. Corner wear, rubbing along extremities, shallow chipping, mild soiling of wraps; spine crease w crack between pp82/83; spine tail chipped. Fmr booksellers' stamps on first page; age-tanned throughout, ow unmarked. "One of the permanent classics in the detective field... no superlatives are adequate."--Anthony Boucher, NYT. First Printing.. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Used.

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Arrow, 2009. First Thus. Paperback. Used; Good. Edition: First Thus. Fast Dispatch. Expedited UK Delivery Available. Excellent Customer Service. Bookbarn International Inventory #2348841