Carol Rivett (22 results)

Condition: New.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Page edges browning. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 256pp. B/w drawings.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Worn. Pages of book are browned. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green boards Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm. Moderate tanning to pages and illustrations throughout. Water stain to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. jacket is rubbed,marked and edgeworn.sticker,mild foxing.well bound.[J.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. very good, ,in a very good jacket with rubbed extremities, and a 2 cm closable tear to top edge, undated with owners inscription to title page pp 256, line drawings, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator). …

Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. very good ,in a very good jacket with rubbed extremities, undated with owners inscription dated 1961 pp 256, line drawings, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator).

Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Near Fine ,in a very good jacket with rubbed and nicked ends pp 256, line drawings, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator).

Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Clean paperback, front card cover partially detached, covers worn at edges, spine creased, pages age tanned, drawing in red biro of horse? unicorn? bull? on half title page. 192 pages. Undated but assume mid 1950s Crime Club no.279c.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Some rubbing/creasing to corners and edges of jacket. Some toning to title page. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a good sound copy, a little wear at the spine ends, fading to spine and (more severely) to an approximately 1-in-wide strip at the left edge of the rear cover;one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap)]. "The Ministry of Fine Arts had come into being during the short era of optimism following World War Two. Since its inception it had suffered from what might be called infant mortality. The first Minister died after six months in office, the second just before the General Election. Death claimed its third victim when Edwin Pompfret, deputy Permanent Secretary, was crushed to death by the fall of a larger-than-life bust that stood at the head of a flight of stairs. . Here indeed is the crime of murder carried out with an artistic touch, which evokes the reluctant admiration of Inspector Rivers of Scotland Yard." This was the ninth book (of 15) in the Inspector Rivers mystery series, that ran from 1945 to the end of the author's life in the late 1950s; during that period, it ran concurrently with the same author's Inspector MacDonald books (written under her more prolific pseudonym, E.C.R. Lorac), which had begun with her first novel in 1932. Critic Mary Ann Grochowski, writing in Reilly's "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers," commented that Inspector Rivers "is remarkably like Inspector MacDonald, although more meditative and less inclined to romping through the bush." Carnac/Lorac's work didn't receive much posthumous attention until the 2020s, when a number of her books have been reissued in the British Library Crime Classics series (four Carnac titles to date -- including this one -- and more than a dozen by Lorac); despite being out of print for 60 years, however, she clearly retained a following, as evidenced by the scarcity of most of her first editions (both the U.K. and U.S. issues) in today's marketplace. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. :: A Crime Club Selection :: Inspector Julian Rivers resented being high-pressured into declaring accidental the death of Chindle, a miserable little clerk in one of the streamlined offices of a government research hospital- and a number of unusual features about the case puzzled Rivers. :: Bound in publisher's black paper-covered boards, author and title are lettered down spine in pale-yellow, capped on either end by Crime Club motif. Octavo (8 x 5 1/2 inches; 204 x 140 millimeters). 220 pages. Grade: Very Good, in a Good+ dust jacket. Book is worn along edges, rubbed a touch at the corners and at the crown and foot. Pages browned with age. Dust jacket is age-toned and faded, with stains, chips and wear along edges, and abrasions / rubbing. Paper has become brittle, and the lower third of the spine has split at the front hinge and torn across. Frail, will send in a translucent protective slip.…

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: CREASED DJ. Bottom of dj was trimmed with only half of the author's name showing, also creased along the spine and edges. The book itself has general shelf wear, deckled and slightly yellowed fore edges. DATE PUBLISHED: 1946 EDITION: 270.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. A rare mystery by the British author best-known as E.C.R. Lorac, towards the end of her life. Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard turns up to conduct the investigation of an accident in the snow that involves two vehicles, one of them driven by elderly, who dies in the crash. But when people look inside his car, a second body is discovered. The deceased is not a local, and he died before the accident. Dust jacket has edge-wear, unclipped ($2.75). First edition. 5¾" - 8½". Ezra Jack Keats (illustrator). book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a tatty price clipped dustjacket which has approximately the bottom half of the spine missing, is sunned at the remainder, is creased and chipped at the edges and has 2 closed tears at the top of the front cover. 224 pages.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Chief Inspector Julian Rivers investigates murder & blackmail on the Welsh border. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners, tanned pages; jacket edgeworn, chipped & foxed with long tear to front panel, crease. Text clean, no names or marks; 190 pages. Size: Octavo.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Very Good+ dj. 1st Edition (see notes). [an ex-library book, apparently, although with only minimal traces of same (a short call number written along the edge of the front endpaper, and some mild scarring to the rear endpaper from label removal); a former owner, however, has covered the rear pastedown with inked notes about the book and author, as well as his initials plus information about his original acquisition of the book; the jacket is lightly soiled, with some minor wear at the extremities, some random pieces of tape affixed to the front flap, a tiny chip at the base of the spine, and is internally tape-reinforced along the spine, apparently to prevent a long vertical crease in the spine from splitting]. The final book by this author under her Carnac pseudonym (she also wrote extensively as E.C.R. Lorac), published the year following her death, and introducing (as did "The Burning Question" two years earlier) a new detective character, Inspector Strang. The plot: "The flirtation between the rich and handsome Brigadier Fotheringay and Mrs Delancie (known to the younger guests as 'the widow de luxe') was appreciated by everyone at the comfortable and expensive Spa Hotel, Bourne Regis as a diversion and a splendid display of practiced, if dated, gallantry. The discovery of the Brigadier's body at the foot of the cliffs, the complete disappearance of the widow, and the savage attack on the night porter at the hotel plunged the residents of the Spa into a melodrama which became more ugly and more puzzling as Inspector Strang uncovered layer after layer of evidence each more baffling than the last." Carnac/Lorac's work didn't receive much posthumous attention until the 2020s, when a number of her books have been reissued in the British Library Crime Classics series (four Carnac titles to date -- not including this one -- and more than a dozen by Lorac); despite being out of print for 60 years, however, she clearly retained a following, as evidenced by the extreme scarcity of most of her first editions (both the U.K. and U.S. issues) in today's marketplace. NOTE regarding the dust jacket, which is unclipped but also unpriced, although the book otherwise appears to fit all first edition points. Illustrated by (dj) William Randell (illustrator). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fair dj. First Edition. [a decent copy, with some discoloration (browning) along the spine and at the top and right edges of the front cover, an original owner's name and address inked on the front endpaper, and a subsequent owner's initials plus extensive notes regarding date & place of purchase on the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap); the jacket itself, PLEASE NOTE, is a mismatch to the book, being from the 1947 American (Doubleday/Crime Club) edition (and shows numerous signs of being a repurposed library-book jacket, including glue stains on both flaps and a small hole torn in the spine (probably from the removal of a call-number label), PLUS the jacket has been trimmed at the top and bottom edges to fit the book, AND is internally tape-reinforced along all edges and seams; get the picture yet?] Chief Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard looks into a mystery involving two striped suitcases, an attractive secretary, a valuable strand of pearls, and the brutal murder of an eminent scientist (the employer of the aforementioned secretary). Like all Carnac mysteries, quite scarce in an original hardcover printing (even though this one has been shotgun-married to a degraded American dust jacket). The work of this author (who also wrote as E.C.R. Lorac) didn't receive much posthumous attention until the 2020s, when the British Library began including some of her books in their Crime Classics reprint series. (Not this one, however.) Despite having been out of print for 60 years, however, she clearly retained a following, as evidenced by the scarcity of most contemporaneous printings of her books.…

Condition: Very good. Architecture + murder = classic stuff. First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 10s6d. Architecture + murder = classic stuff. Small patch of discolouration to lower board; jacket chipped with some loss to spine ends, patch of discolouration to top edge of lower panel. Jacket artwork by William Randell. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Fair dj. 1st Edition (unstated). [a moderately shelfworn book, with a few tiny dents at the top and bottom edges of the covers, a little fading to the spine cloth, and the front endpaper torn out; the jacket is pretty rough, with substantial chipping and creasing at the bottom of the front panel, with some internal tape-repairs to the area, and some wear at the spine ends]. After a half-dozen earlier mysteries featuring "Inspector Ryvet," all published between 1936 and 1940, the author took a five-year break (under this pseudonym, anyway) before returning with this "first of a new series of Carnac thrillers," introducing Chief Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard, who would feature in nearly every Carnac book from then until her death in 1958. The plot here: "The ancient village of Woldstane shelters some odd individuals before a wealthy and eccentric American sends his secretary to negotiate a lease of the Manor house. Once the new tenants are ensconced the story gathers momentum, and the whole village is involved in a mystery of impressive proportions. The Manor goes up in flames, and then Scotland Yard arrives in the person of Chief Inspector Julian Rivers, ex-Lieutenant Commander, R.N. [who] manages to elucidate an amazing tangle of clues, complicated by the identifying of identical twins, and finally sees his way through to the solution." The work of this author (who also wrote as E.C.R. Lorac) didn't receive much posthumous attention until the 2020s, when the British Library began including some of her books in their Crime Classics reprint series. (Not this one, however.) Despite having been out of print for 60 years, however, she clearly retained a following, as evidenced by the extreme scarcity of most contemporaneous printings of her books. NOTE that this book bears no date or edition statement, but the initial publication was in 1945 and there is a "Book Production War Economy Standard" logo and statement on the copyright page; the official publication date was October 28, and a contemporary newspaper advertisement states the price as 8/6, which matches the printed price on this unclipped jacket. In any event, a highly uncommon book, with an even more elusive dust jacket (although we certainly do wish this one was in better nick).…

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 190 pp. Blue cloth with pale blue lettering. Very Good+ with toned contents, offsetting to endpapers , in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly foxed and toned, small nick in front gutter, but unfaded and bright. A rare mystery by the British author best-known as E.C.R. Lorac.…