Beeding Francis Pseud John Leslie (8 results)

8vo. [8], 275, [1] pp. Burgundy-coloured publisher's cloth, black lettering & ruling on front cover, spine (minor shelfwear, slight bumping), w/ d.j. (couple minor closed tears, edgewear, creasing), VG/G copy. First American edition, stated, of this excellent suspense spy mystery featuring General Granby set in occupied Vichy France during World War II.…

First American Edition. First Printing. [Feb. 1934] Octavo (19cm); orange cloth covered boards titled in black on the cover and spine; 276pp. Light shade of toning to spine; very faint splashmark on lower front board; several pages have short closed tears to the margins only of the text; Very Good+, lacking the dustjacket. "Alistair Granby is an agent with the British Secret Service. In his sixth book, one might hope that getting married and going on a skiing honeymoon might be a reason to let Alistair Granby go without trouble but that is not the case when his festivities are interrupted by a mission." (from the publisher); HUBIN, p.28. …

8vo.[8], 334 pp. Red cloth, black lettering front cover & spine (minor soiling & thumbing to covers), w/ d.j. cover art of sinister street (chipping head & foot of spine, minor wear to corners, minor creasing), still VG/G- copy. First American edition, stated, of this Col. Granby espionage mystery, one title in Palmer & Saunders' series of the British Secret Service featuring a numeral, often set against the backdrop of trying to derail the peace of Europe between the Wars. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/3. Espionage thriller, uncommon in jacket. Contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper; water speckling to cloth, spine faded; jacket with some tears and light marking. Jacket artwork by Bip Pares. (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's light blue cloth lettered in black; 328pp.; five leaves of illus. Slightly sun faded spine, cover with some fading and soiling, tapped corners. Clean interior with sound binding and no signs of foxing. By Francis Beeding (pseud. John Leslie Palmer) comes a tale of murder and suspense. Valerie Beauchamp, alias Vera Brown, is a successful novelist of trashy romance novels who has recently found love in the form of a mysterious paramour who has swept her off her feet with his love letters. However, Valerie has just found out that her suitor is not only not a real person, but a joke concocted by her so-called friends. To get back at them Valerie decides to add a tontine to her will, the final survivor to inherit a fortune in the end. But before Valerie can enact her plan she is found brutally murdered. And soon after her former friends find themselves the next targets. Released in the US under the title "Murdered One by One".…

FIRST EDITION, inscribed on the flyleaf: ' To Vernon Bartlett with the authors' love H. St. George Saunders, John Palmer, Francis Beeding, November 1940' (see below), endpapers slightly toned, pp. 286, crown 8vo, original blue cloth, backstrip lettered in black, several spots to cloth, backstrip faded, good. Francis Beeding was the pseudonym adopted by John Leslie Palmer and Hilary St George Saunders for their espionage-related novels. Both had attended Balliol College, Oxford and worked together at the League of Nations in Geneva, where Vernon Bartlett, journalist and author (most famously, co-authoring Journey's End, 1930) led the League's London Office before joining the BBC. The novel, set in the ongoing War, is dedicated, 'with his consent, in admiration', to Winston Churchill.…

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in green on spine and front cover; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [8],9-284,[4]pp. Slight forward lean, spine ends gently nudged, with minute wear to lower right corner of front board; content clean; Near Fine. In the uncommon trial dustjacket, lacking text on the flaps and rear panel, and retaining the finished cover art, though with the spine lettering and skull printed in orange instead of teal; lightly edgeworn, spine lettering a little sunned, with dust-soil to rear panel, and a few tiny nicks and tears; Very Good+. Publisher's promotional bookmark laid in. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title and early serial killer novel that author Vincent Starrett magnanimously cited as "one of the ten greatest detective novels ever written." Hubin, p.28; Pronzini & Muller, p.52. …

First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.25cm); black cloth, with titling and publisher's logo stamped in green on spine and front cover; patterned endpapers; dustjacket; [8],9-284,[4]pp. Light dust-soil to text edges, else Near Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light wear to spine ends, and a few spots of rubbing to rear panel. Attractive copy of this Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title and early serial killer novel that author Vincent Starrett magnanimously cited as "one of the ten greatest detective novels ever written." Hubin, p.28; Pronzini & Muller, p.52.…