Griffin Aceituna (14 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: NEW.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very nice copy in its original and very rare dust jacket. 314 immaculate pages with no inscriptions, loss or foxing. nd but believed 1935. Outer orange boards with black lettering to the spine is unmarked and universal in colour throughout. The dust jacket is price clipped and has tiny scuffs to the spine tips. A small chip to the base on the front panel. An uncommon title.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. Published: 1934. First Edition. DESCRIPTION: Pictorial DJ over grey cloth boards with black lettering to spine. Language: English. Book Condition: Very Good: Rolled spine with clean cloth, sharp corners, edges and spine ends. Clean intact endpapers with very small bookseller stamp to rear. Pages are clean and unmarked but lightly tanned. DJ Condition: Poor: Significant loss of DJ to top of spine and lower edge of rear cover. Closed tear to top left corner of front cover with other tears to corners. See photo for full details. Clipped Pages 286. Size: 8vo 19cm by 13cm. AUTHOR: Editha Aceituna Griffin (1876-1949) was a British author who wrote several mystery novels. …

Paperback. Condition: New.

8vo. [6], 314 pp. Salmon-coloured cloth, black lettering on spine (minor sunning to small spot, slightly cocked), w/ d.j. bold cover art of woman being strangled with scarf signed by "J" (minor tear to center of spine, w/ minor loss, minor creasing, edgewear), VG/G- copy. First edition of this very scarce British mystery featuring a murderous former mistress, and a "boating" accident. Griffin (1876-1949) wrote several mysteries, including one with Joy Griffin.…

Paperback. Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Near Fine. First edition. A bit of erosion on the cloth else good in near fine dust jacket with light wear. *OCLC* locates six copies (over five records) all but one in the British Isles.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Light wear, else near fine in about very good dust jacket with a couple of chips and a longish tear. Inscribed by the author: "Dear Aunt Marguerite with love from Aceituna." *OCLC* locates four copies (over three records).

First edition, 8vo, 286, (2) pp. Light marginal browning throughout. Cloth, d.w. browned with some chipping and minor loss to the top edge.

First Edition. Ellis Silas dustjacket art. Brittany set novel (listed in Hubin as a moderate mystery) of romance and intrigue in which a young woman is transferred from a country vicarage to brilliant social surroundings. Three men love her, but one, a hereditary prince, self willed and self indulgent, uses intrigue and treachery to get her under his power. Very scarce title. Very Good, a list of books that the owner possibly read is glued to rear endpaper, in Very Good dustjacket.…

FIRST EDITION pp. [iv], 348, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in black, faint partial browning to free endpapers, dustjacket in excellent shape with a couple of tiny nicks, price-clipped by publisher with new price (5/-) printed, very good. A scarce mystery novel by a prolific author; it concerns a 'young Oxford don', who falls in with a crowd for whom the injunctions to not murder or steal 'held no meaning' (blurb) - its setting is an English village, and it eschews the seedier possibilities of its set-up to foreground the love story at its heart.…