Graeme Roderic Roderic Jeffries (13 results)

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 184pp. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Richar Verrell's theft of a valuable necklace leads to blackmail and the pursuit of cunning and dangerous criminal. Ex-library with stamps to the front end paper. Bumped and rubbed, hinges loose with a severe shelf lean. Multiple tape shadows to the end papers, residue from a stamp pad removal on the front end paper. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, including a 1" chip to the spine heel, taking part of the publisher's name. Lower corner of the front flap clipped, price intact, in Brodart. Reading copy. Ex-Library. …

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 183pp. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Tasked with determining whether a scientist is a traitor, Richard Verrell uncovers a double cross and is soon pursued by murderers and the police. Ex-library with stamps to the front pastedown and the copyright page, no exterior indications. Blue boards bumped with wear to the lower edges, tape residue to the boards and end papers where an old protector had been secured. Severe shelf lean with the hinges loose, the rear badly. Jacket rubbed with wear at the corners and spine ends, tape shadows to the flaps, in new Brodart. Reading copy. Ex-Library.…

Condition: Good. First Edition. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Ex-lib. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 188pp. Illustrated hardback laminated board cover.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Richard Verrell is asked to investigate when a scientist disappears. Lightly bumped, spine a bit cocked, with a damp stains to the lower and fore edge of the text block and the lower front board. Jacket rubbed with wear at the corners and spine ends, including small damp stains to the lower flap folds, in Brodart.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, endpapers and page edges tanned, no inscriptions, in a tatty unclipped dustjacket which is stained at the rear foldover and has an area of loss at bottom of front cover. 184 pages.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original orange cloth covers, orange lettering on black background to the spine, black corners to the upper panel. 8vo 7½'' x 5¼'' 277 pp. Name to the front paste down, front free end paper missing, spine slightly sun faded, no dust wrapper. We currently hold in stock 5 other titles by this author. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Richard Verrell attempts an art robbery from a burglar-proof vault and finds it impossible. When he later reads of the theft he returns to find out how the unknown thief had succeeded. Adey 834. Gently bumped with foxing to the edges of the text block and a damp stain to the fore edge of the rear end paper only. Jacket rubbed with a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends, small spot to the rear panel, in Brodart.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. Red cloth over boards with faded gold stamping on spine. Title page not dated. Copyright page dated 1952. 213 pages. In fair condition. Roderic Graeme is the pseudonym of Roderic Jeffries, son of Graham Jeffries (also known under various pseudonyms, including Bruce Graeme). Covers have some light staining here and there. Spine is creased and bumped. A few notes in pencil on front free endpaper. Fore edge is foxed. There is some staining to the first few pages (none too major), but pages otherwise are free of marks. A good reading copy overall.…

Cloth. Condition: FINE+, Near New. FINE Dust Jacket. 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. Line Drawn Cover Art. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. 8vo. pp 190. Original publisher's red cloth, lettered gilt on spine. From the Donald Rudd collection of detective fiction. Slight wear and rubbing to boards with a slight lean and a mark on the lower edge of the front board, otherwise sound, near very good with clean text.

Condition: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original burgundy cloth covers, black title and author lettering and symmetrical designs to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 252 printed pages of text. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with chips to the spine ends and corners, crease lines to the paper, priced, 1/-. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…