Hill Reginald 1936 (16 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 256 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with silver lettering to spine over red boards in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. Hill, author of the popular British series featuring detectives Dalziel and Pascoe, has written a first-rate espionage thriller. Lemuel Swift, sixth Viscount Bessacarr, living in Venezuela as a fugitive from British justice, is told he has terminal cancer. Desperate to see his only child, Swift fakes his own kidnapping and tries to slip back into England incognito. To his surprise, he is immediately arrested by British Intelligence, in the persons of Commander Hunnicut and his female assistant, Reilly. The British promise to let Swift contact his daughter if he does just one thing for them: namely, kill his father, a notorious traitor who fled to Russia years earlier. Swift half-heartedly agrees. However, things are not what they seem. He runs into double-cross on top of double-cross until it is hard to separate friend from foe from family member. Hill demonstrates his mastery by keeping a tight rein on a plot that, with its nonstop action, could have become chaotic. The narrative is a perfect mixture of tension and mordant humor, and ultimately all loose ends are tied up in a way that should satisfy the most demanding reader. Condition: Jacket lightly spine else a near fine copy in like jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 281 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2") bound in original publisher's quarter black cloth with rex gilt lettering to spine over yellow boards in original pictorial jacket. First edition. When policemen remove their hats, they do not bring good news. The bare-headed policeman on Trudi Adamson's doorstep brought the worst news possible -- her husband Trent has been burned to death in a freak car accident. Suddenly a widow after years of marriage, Trudi finds herself alone, unprovided for and increasingly aware of her ignorance of her late husband's world. Why had he resigned from his job without telling her? Were was all his money? And more terrifying still: is he really dead? As shock piles upon shock, Trudi is forced to re-examine her belief in Trent, and ultimately in herself. Compelled to leave the cozy nest of her old life, she is out in the open and fighting for her very survival. Condition: Previous owner's name to front end paper, remainder mark to heal end pages else very good to fine in a near fine jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. This twenty-second in Hill's celebrated series about Dalziel and Pascoe, who work uncomfortably together in the Mid-Yorkshire Constabulary, should please longtime fans of the series as the story begins with a blast. This copy is in excellent condition, a third printing with the excellent, price-intact dustjacket in clear mylar protection. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Bestselling and Diamond Dagger award-winning mystery writer Reginald Hill sets up a battle of wills between determined cops Andy Dalziel and DCI Peter Pascoe and an elusive and ingenious villain in a dazzling novel of psychological suspense. This copy is in excellent condition, a first printing with the excellent, price-intact dustjacket in clear mylar protection. The book will be carefully wrapped and boxed for safe shipping.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 196 pages. Octavo (8 1/2" x 5 3/4") bound in original publisher's quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine over blue boards with insignia of England in gilt to the covers in original pictorial jacket. Molly Keatly has a wonderful home in a London suburb, friends and money--and Sam, her loving journalist husband. Then one morning Sam disappears and Molly learns that her husband of eight years is a spy and a traitor. Suddenly Molly is caught in a nightmare, hurtling toward a rendezvous with terror. Condition: Jacket has some light toning to edges else a near fine copy in like jacket.…

Condition: FINE. First printing. A stand-alone novel by the writer best known for his Dalziel and Pascoe series. A young mathematics grad student from Australia arrives in the tiny Cumbrian village of Illthwaite, in search of information about her grandmother, an orphan who was sent to Australia. There she meets Miguel Mercado. a historian and former Jesuit seminarian who is researching the presence of Catholic priests during the years of Queen Elizabeth four centuries earlier. SIGNED on the title page. 470 pp. Very near fine in a fine dustjacket. (light toning to edges of textblock). …

Condition: Fine. Mass market paperback. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to title page 'For Andrew Best Wishes Reginald Hill.' Peter Williams illustrated front cover. Light toning to page edges, without inscription or creases to spine and in Nr. Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Fine. Mass market paperback. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to title page 'For Andrew Best Wishes Reginald Hill.' Peter Williams illustrated front cover. Light toning to page edges, without inscription or creases to spine and in Nr. Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Fine. Mass market paperback. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to title page 'For Andrew Best Wishes Reginald Hill.' Peter Williams illustrated front cover. Light toning to page edges, without inscription or creases to spine and in Nr. Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Fine. Mass market paperback. SIGNED presentation copy by the author to title page 'For Andrew Best Wishes Reginald Hill.' Peter Williams illustrated front cover. Light toning to page edges, without inscription or creases to spine and in Nr. Fine condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 408 printed pages of text, brown paper end papers. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 9780007194841 DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Fine. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. Contains [xvi] 300 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout. Fine condition book in Fine condition dust wrapper, not price clipped. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this preserves and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 000232525X DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black paper covered boards, silver title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9½'' x 6¼''. Contains 470 printed pages of text. Cheap paper browning and minimal dust marks to the closed page edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with light rubs and creases, not price clipped. SIGNED by the author to the title page 'Reginald Hill'. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ISBN 0007194811 DETECTIVE | CRIME FICTION.…

First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.280. Original red boards in pictorial jacket priced at £10.95. No inscriptions. Text block toned as usual, exterior lightly handled. Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction p168-170.

½ S. 8vo. "To Sabrina, my very best wishes".

Three Postcards Signed, and two (folding) cards) with between 6-21 lines of writing. Good-humoured tone, with references to a novel published by "Margaret" [Forster, Davies's wife] which has given him an idea for a detective novel, a self-deprecating comment ("insecure jumped up northern grammer school lad"), reflection on how well he and friends have dome (no "jail-bait failures"), news of a death, a White Christmas, a plan for a "double-act at Keswick", treatment for illness (2011), etc.…