Gordon Daviot (88 results)

Hardback. Condition: Fine.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Some light shelf and reading wear, remains of a sticker on the front and some tanning and foxing to the pages and covers. Name written on the front free end paper.

Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.45.

paperback. Condition: Good. **PAPERBACK**.

Paperback. Condition: Near fine. First printing of this edition. First printing of this trade paperback edition with an Introduction by Tana French. A clean, unmarked copy in printed wrappers - appears unread.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condition: Good. 1954. No edition remarks. 236 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Red cloth covered boards with gilt. Book has been rebound by library, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some mild marking and tanning.

Condition: Good. 1962. New Impression. 132 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is bright and clear. Sunning to spine. Board corners are bumped.

299 pp. Rústica. Forrado y sello anterior propietario. Idioma: inglés.

Pbk. Condition: Good>Very Good. First Thus. An orphan, Brat Farrar, poses as the long-missing heir to an English estate. Little by little he becomes more sure of the reason why the true heir is missing. Should he reveal his knowledge and reveal himself to be a crook? Vintage copy, Pages clean and complete, but about beginning to separate from cover.254p.

Soft cover. Condition: Poor. Wraps are worn and marked.Foxing.Tightly bound.Reprint.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Reprint. [Penguin Classic Crime series] Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, recuperating from a broken leg, becomes fascinated with a contemporary portrait of Richard III that bears no resemblance to the Wicked Uncle of history. Could such a sensitive, noble face actually belong to one of the world's most heinous villains -- a venomous hunchback who may have killed his brother's children to make his crown secure? Or could Richard have been the victim, turned into a monster by the usurpers of England's throne? Grant determines to find out once and for all- with the help of the British Museum and an American scholar - what kind of man Richard Plantagenet really was, and who killed the Little Princes in the Tower.The Daughter of Time is an ingeniously plotted, beautifully written, and suspenseful tale, a supreme achievement from one of mystery writing's most gifted masters.189p. Genealogical table. Paper age toned, else fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publishers black cloth, titled red. Nice clean copy. Minor wear at head / foot of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Classic Josephine Tey, this ex-library books shows signs of being very well read, with the binding stretched, though still firmly intact. With library stamps and marks, it has the iconic Ray Russell cover, which, whilst far from perfect (bumps to corners and top and bottom of spine), is nicely protected by non-adhesive plastic protection.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Ex-library Kent Education Committee County Library. Plates to front endpaper & discreet numbers / stamps to verso of title page. Boards and text - a clean copy. Publishers grey cloth, titled burgundy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Publishers black cloth, titled orange. A nice clean copy.

Adapté de l'anglais par Anne D'Aurier. Illustrations de Ergès. Cartonnage de l'éditeur. 254 pages. Mouillures en marges.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. Miss Lucy Pym, a popular English psychologist, is guest lecturer at a physical training college. The year's term is nearly over, and Miss Pym -- inquisitive and observant -- detects a furtiveness in the behavior of one student during a final exam. She prevents the girl from cheating by destroying her crib notes. But Miss Pym's cover-up of one crime precipitates another -- a fatal "accident" that only her psychological theories can prove was really murder.249p.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FREE U.K. Shipping. FAMILY Business. FIRST Class Service. Full refund if not totally satisfied 1950 FIRST Hardback edition, FIRST Printing. No dust jacket. School stamp inside. The Twelve Pound Look Remember Caesar Charles - By the grace of God Bring me my bow Five at The George Creatures of Impulse.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st.UK Edition. "It was rumoured that Hollywood stars would kill for the privilege of being photographed by the good-looking, talented and fashionable portrait photographer Leslie Searle. But what would bring such a gifted figure to the English village backwater of Salcott St Mary? And why - and how - did he disappear? If a crime had been committed, was it murder . fraud . or simply a macabre practical joke?' Inspector Alan Grant finally uncovers the truth. 255p. Neat and complete text in original binding, rear endpaper missing. No jacket but marks inside the covers indicate where it had been glued down.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover first edition 1952. This book is in good+ condition - mild edge wear to boards; pages tanning; small bookseller's sticker on inside of front board; ghost of pencil price ffep. No dust jacket.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Play. Printed pages taped into excercise book. Uncommon title. Pages presumably photo-copies from an omnibus edition. Circa 1953.

Hardcover. Condition: Worn - Age Spots. No Jacket. Third Impression. Heritage of Literature Series. The Section B No. 15.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. 192 pp. Trade paperback format. Lightly rubbed on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. This collection contains: The Game of Chess by K. S. Goodman; My Proud Beauty by Kenneth Lillington; The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet; Protest by Norman Williams; The Apollo of Bellac by Jean Giraudoux - adapted by Maurice Valency; Lord Byron's Love Letter by Tennessee Williams; The Dear Departed by Stanley Houghton; The Pen of My Aunt by Gordon Daviot; The Witches by Margaret Wood; and Overtones by Alice Gerstenberg. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. book in very good condition, protective cover dj is worn and missing pieces.

Condition: Near Fine. Reprinted in the Hereford Plays Series (hardback). 12mo (19cm by 13cm), xviii, 126pp. Folding genealogy. Original illustrated cloth binding, no dustwrapper. There is some minor sunning of the binding, else this book is in very good condition.

Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1933. First Edition. Fifth Impression. Hardback. No DW. Black cloth, pink paper label. Boards are lightly spotted, spine knocked, gift inscription to front free endpaper and occasional mark to contents o/w a clean and sound copy of a scarce play by this master of detective fiction.