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Published by Doubleday & Company, Inc. / The Crime Club, Garden City, NY, 1946
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.75cm); dark blue cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in green on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [8],9-256pp. Spine ends gently nudged, some foxing to endpapers, else contents clean; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), gently spine-sunned, showing modest external wear, a few tiny nicks and tears, and some faint foxing on verso; Very Good+. The sixth novel featuring Tommy Hambledon of British Intelligence. HUBIN, p.89.
Published by Literary Guild, NY, 1943
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st. 1st thus; States on dj "no part of this book has appeared in any magazine or periodical in the Unitd states; dj w/lite chipping, flap corners clipped on both flaps. in mylar; grey c w/red decorations/titles; lite toning of end papers;, lite shelf rubbing; 270 clean, unmarked pages Size: 12 vo.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton Limited, London, 1946
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (19cm); blue cloth, with titles stamped in black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [6],7-287,[1]pp. Slight lean, edgeworn, faint foxing to text edges, with some gentle sunning to spine, and more pronounced sunning to spine ends and upper board edges; scattered soil to lower half of covers; Very Good only. Dustjacket is price-clipped, edgeworn and dust-soiled, with numerous tears, attendant creases, and a few small chips, and clear tape mending on verso to spine ends and corners; just Very Good. The sixth novel featuring Tommy Hambledon of British Intelligence. HUBIN, p.89.
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1949
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. 8vo. Original pale yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6. 'The scene.Brussels. The time.after the war. And the characters? Why, Tommy Hambledon, of course!' (jacket blurb). Espionage thriller. A very good copy, in very good dust-jacket with just a few minor chips.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1941
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA
First Edition
First American Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's rubber-stamped slip laid in. Octavo (19.5cm); mauve cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in navy blue on spine; navy blue topstain; dustjacket; [xii],270,[6]pp. A few tiny, spattered spots at right edge of textblock, else clean internally; Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), with some faint spotting at mid-spine, and a stain at the center of the rear flap fold; Near Fine. The first of 26 novels in the writing duo's successful series featuring British Intelligence agent Tommy Hambledon - a gritty, realistic tale of espionage set during the end of World War I. A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title. Barzun & Taylor 869; Hubin, p.87.