Iles Francis Berkeley Anthony (31 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good/ Fine. Second Edition By Publisher. 236 pages. >> Complete & Unabridged copy. "He was a man with skill in the gentle art of seduction can't be expected to remain under the thumb of an obviously detestable wife. Naturally he decided to kill her." Surface scratching to covers; creasing to backcover…

Booklet - Unbound Pages. Condition: Very Good. 11 pages, illustrated. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Supplied without title page or cover. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE,…

Paris : Gallimard, collection 'La Méridienne', 1953, 254 p. Traduit par Ed. Michel-Tyl. Ce roman est un des premiers à exploiter la technique de l'histoire criminelle inversée ('howcatchem'), qui dévoile dès le départ l'identité du meurtrier, pour s'intéresser à ses mobiles et à la façon dont la police va le confondre. Broché, c…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair first US printing. Lacking the dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth with . red embossed to spine and cover. Wear to spine and cover. Minor fading to spine. Binding still square but with some looseness to the hinges. Pages clean, with very slight age toning. Crease to bottom corner of…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Cheap Edition. Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles First Cheap Edition Gollancz 1931. Pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox. No previous owner's marks or inscriptions, contents and edges free of foxing. A bright fine copy, covers completely unblemished. In a near fi…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Early printing. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [nice clean copy, spine very slightly turned, extremely light wear to extremities]. "This is the story of Lina Aysgarth, who, after eight…

Condition: Good. 1933. Second Impression. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering to spine. 'Second impression May 1933'. Aspects of the story were used in the 1941 Hitchcock film 'Suspicion'. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters somewhat cracked with some exposed netting. Binding is qu…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. Undtaed, but 1939. 12mo. original pale blue cloth (rubbed & bumped, spine sunned, some spotting & marking, inscrip. to FFE; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 320. A very good copy of this uncommon psychological romance. The final novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under his Francis Iles…

Yellow card cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover creased, marked, chipped and sunned. Browning to pages and text block. Some creasing to corners. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 288pp. Anthony Berkeley Cox wrote under several pen names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley…

dj. First UK Edition and true first. Basis for Alfred Hitchcock's 1941 classic film noir "Suspicion," starring Cary Grant and Joan Fontaine. Near Fine in a Very Good plus dust jacket. Book has a tiny, nearly imperceptible tear at the front hinge. Jacket is slightly sunned at the spine, with only a few nicks and tiny closed tears…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very scarce, first hardback issue of this important 'inverted detective story'. Written by Anthony Berkeley Cox under the pen name Francis Iles. The first edition of this scarce crime fiction novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox. The murderer's identity is revealed in the fir…

First edition. First edition, first printing, preceding the cloth issue. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow wraps. About Very Good, spine creased and toned, small tear along spine edge at foot, contents and wraps toned with age, corners a little bumped. An uncommon British mystery that is often cited as one of the best examples…