Alding Peter Pseudonym Roderic Jeffries (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st American Edition. 184p. Jacket has light edge wear and turning brown along top edge and spine sunned, sticker shadow on front of jacket. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. [Hubin; p.4] (8-1/2"x5-3/4").

Condition: NEAR FINE. First US printing. The fourth novel published under this pseudonym by this prolific author, featuring Inspector Fusil and Constable Kerr, who find a body in a burned out wine cellar, as they are investigating the hijacking of a truckload of whiskey. 184 pp. Jacket design by Abner Graboff. Near fine in very good dust jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Minor chipping to spine crown; some staining to rear panel.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original apple green covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8'' x 5¼''. Contains 184 printed pages of text. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with old dry damp line to the spine, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0091367506 DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.

Cloth. Condition: FINE+, Near New. Dust Jacket Condition: FINE Dust Jacket. Line Drawn Cover Art. (illustrator). FIRST Edition Hardcover. 214 pages; ( 320 grams); "When Richard Verrell motors down to a quiet corner of Kent for a week-end visit and wanders across his host's fields for a spot of rough-shooting, he little suspects what lies in store. He is soon to find out. Investigating the interior of a small garden shed, he sees an immense 'blower four and a half' Bentley parked in the road beyond. Convinced that all is not as it should be he returns later that evening, accompanied by his host. As he enters the house nearby he is fired at. The next moment he hears the roar of the Bentley revving to a hurried getaway. In the shed he tumbles over the body of a dead man. Would any man ask for a better incentive to rush headlong into an affair that does not in the least concern him? Certainly Blackshirt would not. But then Blackshirt is Blackshirt" >>> Very RARE Title; Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.