Jacket Bill Richmond (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket photograph by Bill Richmond (illustrator). 1st Edition. Clean and firmly bound green cloth boards, no writing inside, light foxing on the front end paper, slightly tanned pages. The jacket is not price clipped but has minor handling wear including a closed tear and associated creases on the lower front edge.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Bill Richmond (illustrator). BCE. 248pp. Red buckram, silver lettering. Very faintly foxed tops, and slight peb. Bright, unused copy. Slight surface wear and minimal bump to dw. The 7th Matthew Hope story by the author of the famous 87th Precinct novels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Bill Richmond (illustrator). BCE. 227pp. Red buckram, gilt lettering. Two foxed spots on fore-edge. Bright, unused copy, with trace of a pencil price on ffep. #35 of the 87th Precinct novels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Bill Richmond (illustrator). BCE. 250pp. Green buckram, gilt lettering, one tiny light spot, one tiny edge-bump, o/w cover is Fine. Very faintly foxed edges and the usual slight peb. Bright vg dw. The 4th Matthew Hope story by the author of the famous 87th Precinct novels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Bill Richmond (illustrator). BCE. 212pp. Tan buckram, gilt lettering. Few foxed spots on dw leaf. Bright, unused copy. #34 of the 87th Precinct novels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Bill Richmond (illustrator). BCE. 262pp. Black buckram, gilt lettering. Very faintly foxed tops, and slight peb. Bright, unused copy. The 6th Matthew Hope story by the author of the famous 87th Precinct novels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket Bill Richmond (illustrator). BCE. 247pp. Blue buckram, silver lettering. Peb. Bright, unused copy. #40 of the 87th Precinct novels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+ original charcoal cloth, mild age-toning to pages, otherwise a very clean and straight copy, in VG price-clipped DW, protected in Brodart sleeve. Jacket photo by Bill Richmond.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket Bill Richmond (illustrator). BCE. 350pp. Black buckram, silver lettering. Faintly foxed tops. Dw creased at top of spine, with very slight surface wear. Overall, a bright, unused copy. #41 of the 87th Precinct novels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Bill Richmond (illustrator). 1st Edition. First published in 1981, this is a third impression of later the same year, a tribute to the author's popularity. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed and bruised, front folds rubbed, some slight yellowing to page block, price clipped, no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 512pp. Zouga Ballantyne has a fanatical need to find diamonds, and it is in the diamond mines of Kimberley that he finally realises his fate. But the price of success in one of the most punishing places in the world is high and Zouga loses his beloved wife to one of the many sicknesses that haunt the diamond mine camp. Zouga and his sons are left to find their fortune elsewhere, and end up a part of the flourishing British Empire, developing their own form of civilisation in the face of tribal opposition. But Zouga's success has come at a price. The local Matabele tribe, who have tried to live alongside the colonists, are slowly losing everything. In the face of exploitation, violence and greed, who will triumph in the land of ruthless men? Wilbur Addison Smith (1933-2021), was a Northern Rhodesian born British South African novelist specializing in historical fiction about international involvement in Southern Africa across four centuries. An accountant by training, he gained a film contract with his first published novel 'When the Lion Feeds'. This encouraged him to become a full time writer, and he developed three long chronicles of the South African experience which all became best sellers. He acknowledged his publisher Charles Pick's advice to 'write about what you know best' and his work takes in much authentic detail of the local hunting and mining way of life, along with the romance and conflict that goes with it. By the time of his death in 2021 he had published 49 books of which he sold over 140 million copies.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Bill Richmond (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Ex library with usual stamps and defects, but somewhat unusually also SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Perhaps this was a signed copy that was later donated to Hertfordshire Libraries. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, slight lean, price clipped and price replaced with publisher's sticker (£10.95), internally clean and tight, overall an interesting book. 182pp. The second case for Superintendent Otani of the Hyogo Prefecture of Honshu, the main island of Japan, where the death of a respected foreign academic presents a problem not just for the police but also for Andrew Walker the young British Vice Consul in the Prefecture's capital Kobe, who has to master the formal intricacies and rituals of Japanese mourning as well as police procedure. With his vast knowledge and experience of Japan, James Melville (Roy Martin, 1931-2014), again weaves an intriguing murder mystery into a subtle and affectionate depiction of Japanese life, often as seen through Japanese eyes observing western visitors observing them! Published in Japan as 'The English Teacher Murder Case'. Scarce signed, even in this ex library condition. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Jacket by Bill Richmond (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. SIGNED AND DATED BY THE AUTHOR, IN BLUE PEN, WITHOUT DEDICATION, ON FFEP 'Maureen Duffy, Cambridge 1978'. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£4.50), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 218pp. A novel of espionage. Maureen Patricia Duffy (b.1933) is an English poet, playwright, novelist and non fiction author. A lifelong activist, including on such issues as gay rights and animal rights, she is particularly known for her campaigning on behalf of authors. She is a recipient of the Benson Medal for her lifelong writings. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Bill Richmond (illustrator). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Ex library with usual stamps and defects. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners bruised and slightly rubbed, slight lean, not price clipped £4.50), no personal inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a reasonable copy for ex library. 259pp. A historical prequel to Bonfiglioli's classic Charlie Mortdecai mysteries. After committing a crime anyone but a close relative might forgive, Karli Mortdecai Van Cleef leaves Holland double quick with his uncle's buckshot lodged firmly in the seat of his breeches. Discretion being the least idiotic part of valour he decides to hide far away in London, among the tea shops and opium dens. On savouring these Eastern delicacies and knowing an opportunity when he sups upon one, young Karli throws in his lot with an opium clipper bound for China's high seas. Life on the ocean waves, however, is full of perils for an officer and his sensitive digestive tract, mountainous waves, an encounter with a malodorous slave ship, the captain's wife's pulse racingly brief wardrobe, several hordes of pirates, mutiny, the ship's cook's fondness for curry, to name but a few. Kyril Bonfiglioli (1928-85), was an English art dealer, actor, science fiction editor, champion swordsman, and comic novelist. He was born in Eastbourne on the south coast of England to an Italo Slovene father, Emmanuel Bonfiglioli, and English mother. Having served in the British Army from 1947 to 1954, and been widowed, he applied to Balliol College, Oxford where he took his degree. He died in Jersey of cirrhosis of the liver in 1985. He had five children and claimed to be loved and respected by all who knew him slightly! Known for being eccentric and witty, his Mortdecai novels have attained cult status since his death. An extremely scarce book in this first UK edition.