Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. dj w/price clipped, lite wear only, in mylar; owner's stamp on flyleaf; stamped 'withdrawn' on copyright page, lite toning of end papers; 191 clean, unmarked pages, slightly toned.
Fifteenth thriller featuring Berkeley Gray's hero Norman Conquest, who was known as 'a gay desperado'! Pp.192, pages tanned. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine slightly dulled, wear to spine edge, a couple of dark spots to front. Good.** "Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. Brooks was born in Hackney, London. He is believed to have written around 40 million words. (wiki).
Published by Collins Crime Club, London, 1947
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 120
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Add to basketCondition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3s.6d. Book itself VG+; dust-jacket with some edge-wear and tearing. A pleasing first edition of the twelfth novel in the author's "Ironsides" Cromwell series. Book.
Published by Collins, London, 1941
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 150
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original burgundy cloth. Dust-jacket. Edwy Searles Brooks was a UK novelist who wrote under a number of pseudonyms including Berkeley Gray and Victor Gunn. This is a rare work from his canon. A very good copy, in genuinely very good jacket. Book.
Published by Collins,, London,, 1940
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
First Edition
£ 275
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketHardcover. Condition: Very Good. Y. First edition. 8vo. 3pp. advertisements. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7'6. VG+; jacket with old closed tear and resultant creasing to head of front panel, with neat repair to reverse, 2 small abrasions to front panel, torn with small section of loss at foot of spine, some light ink numbers written to lower panel, overall VG-. Dust-jacket artwork by Stead, A very good first edition of this Ironsides title, distinctly uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Victor Gunn was one of several pseudonyms for Edwy Brooks, alongside his perhaps more well-known moniker 'Berkeley Gray'. N.