Blake Nicholas Day Lewis Cecil (78 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pages tanned, small gift inscription on front endpaper, else internally in good condition; cover has some fading and tanning, a few bumps, some shelfwear and rubbing, in particular the backstrip extremities, and a few splash marks. No wrapper.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Pages tanning and cover a little shelfworn, still a good, tight copy.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

3. Auflage. 188, (4) S. Ill. Orig.-Broschur. Taschenbuch (= Bd. 4889). - Stempel auf Fußschnitt. Privater Adreßstempel auf vorderem Spiegel; ansonsten innen sauber. Gut erhaltenes Exemplar.

Condition: good. Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows edge wear and some tears. Book Club Edition.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Good. EX-BOOTS LIBRARY BOOK. Hardback. 19x12cm. 256 pages. Front board has the remnants of a Boots Green Shield label. NO OTHER LIBRARY MARKS. Clean & tight book. Front paste-down has a written name. No other inscriptions. NO JACKET. Dispatched Royal Mail First Class with tracking next working day or sooner securely boxed in cardboard ref zx-mrp.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good +. Reprint. G+, Edgewear, tear, creases, indentations, spine lean, soiling, browning. Thriller, featuring Georgia Strangeways. Cover photo by Paul Wakefield. Photo on request.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Pan Edition. VG, Edgewear, creases, mild spine lean, small stain on front cover, browning. Psychological crime drama. Photo on request.

Crime novel set in Ireland in the 1930s. VG in Good- price clipped jacket which has some soiling, is slightly marked to edges/age toned and has some closed tears.

12mo. First edition thus. First published in 1935. Original printed wraps. A bit skewed. Spine slightly rubbed and tanned, with a one inch split at the foot. Neat ink ownership on the half-title. Paper a bit browned as usual. Very good +. Penguin Crime 1101.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 256pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (23/3).

Crime novel set in Ireland in the 1930s. VG in Good price clipped jacket which slightly marked to edges/age toned and has some closed tears.

Hard back binding in publisher's original pistachio cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered navy back, small blue illustrations to the front board. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 176 pp with monochrome line illustrations throughout. Hint of foxing to the closed text block edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition price clipped panoramic dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979).

12mo. Second edition. First published in 1938. Original blue cloth, gilt. Slightly skewed. Edges slightly foxed. Near fine in near fine d/w. Number thirteen in the Holiday Library series.

1st Penguin edition, and the first of Nicholas Blake's detective novels published under the Penguin imprint. "The finding of the body is a masterly scene of the macabre. Incidents, recalled one by one, are assembled into the story of a twisted life calculated to make anyone wince." (T.L.S. review). Pp.220/4(publisher's catalogue), pages toned. Paperback, a little dusty with toning to spine, small tear to top of spine and wear to spine edge. G+.

Condition: Wie neu. Kleine geweißte Stelle auf dem ersten Vorsatzblatt. Insgesamt ein sehr sauberes und ungelesenes Exemplar. Fach N15 N15 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 338 0,0 x 0,0 x 0,0 cm, Gebundene Ausgabe.

4th impression, 1947, in tatty, discoloured and fragile binding with wear to edges and corners; library book plate on front paste-down; page fore-edges yellowed with small, pale ink stamp to main fore-edge; internally, outer pages yellowed, edges of pages yellowed; otherwise, a readable copy. Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback (no dust jacket).

Condition: Good. 1947. 284 pages. Black pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Notable forward lean to text block. Boards are slightly bowed. Light wear to unclipped dust jacket with tears, nicks and creases to spine, edge and corners. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Second impression hard back binding in publisher's original olive grey cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered red back. 8vo. 8½'' x 6''. Contains (xvi), 62 pp. Basil Henry Liddell Hart's copy with his elaborate bookplate inside the front cover, signed by two indecipherable well-wishers to the front free end paper 'To Adrian etc.' + 'To Adrian forty years on with lots of love, Michael - 1982.' Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with age darkening of the paper down the spine and to the edges, not price clipped, 5s. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Pocket Books No.742, first printing with sensational cover art by Warren Baumgartner; this copy is VG with vertical cover crease, running the length of the book and moderate rubbing on one spine edge, contents very bright and unmarked.

Hardback. Book Club Edition. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. Interior uniformly age-toned. 223 pages. A murder mystery set in 1930s Ireland. The author was the Poet Laureate from 1968 - 1972. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Photograph available on request.

8vo. First edition. Original red hardcovers, lettered in black. Spine slightly faded and dulled. Corner tips pushed. Neat ink ownership on front pastedown. Very good +.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. In the final Nigel Strangeways novel, Nigel is at a campus in Boston and asked by the local police to assist in a murder investigation. Spine ends bumped with rubbing at the tips. Jacket lcrimped with a touch of wear at the edges, laminate wrinkled on the front, in Brodart.

[Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, some spots of foxing to page edges, no inscriptions. Covers have some fading, bundle string mark to upper. Very good. A Nigel Strangways detective novel. Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction, Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction, p 33-35.

Stockholm; Norstedts, 1937. Originalets titel: Thou Shell of Death (London, 1936). 19,5x13,5 cm. 305, (1) s. Samtida blått halvfranskt band med förgylld ryggtitel, upphöjda bind och marmorerade pärmpapper. Främre omslag medbundet. Omslag av Jurgen von Konow. Med deckarexperten Jan Brobergs namnteckning och exlibris, samt med en annan namnteckning på halvtitelbladet. Främre omslaget är något hårt beskuret i nedre marginalen. Fint ex. Första svenska utgåvan. Contemporary blue half leather, with gilt title and raised bands on spine. Front wrapper is preserved, but a bit too trimmed. A fine copy. With an unknown signature on the half-title, and with Jan Broberg's bookplate and signature. Broberg (1932-2012) was one of the leading Swedish experts on crime fiction. First Swedish edition of Thou Shell of Death.

Taschenbuch. Condition: Gut. 0 Innerhalb Deutschlands Versand je nach Größe/Gewicht als Großbrief bzw. Bücher- und Warensendung mit der Post oder per DHL. Rechnung mit MwSt.-Ausweis liegt jeder Lieferung bei. Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 272.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. None (illustrator). First edition. A lovely first edition thriller mystery novel by Cecil Day-Lewis, one of this exciting Nigel Strangeways detective novels. The first edition of this work.In the original price-clipped dustwrapper.'The Private Wound' is a thrilling mystery novel, following the murder of a free-spirited young woman in Ireland. One of four stand-alone Nigel Strangeways novels.By Cecil Day-Lewis under the pseudonym Nicholas Blake. Day-Lewis was an influential figure of the twentieth century, the Poet Laureate from 1968 until 1972, and working for the Ministry of Information during World War II. He is also the father of the actor Daniel Day-Lewis. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original price-clipped dustwrapper. Externally, with just a couple of very light marks to the boards. Dustwrapper is lightly discoloured with very light edge wear. Minor marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine. book.