John Goodwin Sidney Floyd Gowing (8 results)

Condition: New.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Near fine. 'Popular Edition'. 'Popular Edition'. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-. A lovely early reissue of this classic, "the story of a mother's vengeance". Ink ownership inscription to front free endpaper, overall a very good copy, in very good jacket, with just a little minor creasing to head of spine. Book.…

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of deaths climaxing in that of an oil magnate. Cloth spine dulled; jacket very good. Scotland Yard is baffled by a series of deaths climaxing in that of an oil magnate. Book.

Octavo, pp. [1-9] 10-256, original green boards, front and spine panels stamped in black, publisher's monogram stamped in black on rear panel. First edition. When her "passion for a clean-minded young Englishman is not reciprocated," a woman with hypnotic power "plans his murder by the hand of the girl he loves." Bleiler (1978), p. 84. Not in Reginald (1979; 1992). Hubin (1994), p. 336. A fine copy in nearly fine pictorial dust jacket with mild creases along the top edge of front panel. A lovely copy. (#170858).…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A smart copy of this scarce mystery novel, in the publisher's original illustrated dust wrapper. First published at some point in the first decade of the twentieth century, this is a scarce work. In the very scarce publisher's original dust wrapper, price unclipped. A thrilling mystery about the murder of a notorious blackmailer by an unscrupulous millionaire.John Goodwin was the pseudonym ofSidney Floyd Gowing.Undated; dated c1925 via the list of titles to the dust wrapper flyleaves.The publisher's note on the leaf facing the title page that at the point of the publication of this copy, 175,000 copies of the title had been sold.With a former owner's inscription, dated July 1933, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Light shelf wear to back strip tail, with boards exceptionally bright. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Inscription to front free endpaper. Minor chips to dust wrapper back strip head, with discolouration to back strip and handling marks to rear wrap. Small closed tears to rear wrap head. Small loss to head of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages age toned due to paper type, with spotting and instances of foxing throughout. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. Excellent jacket artwork on this the last criminous title by Goodwin; a fugitive tale and a rare book in the jacket. Some offset lightening to upper cover from jacket, otherwise a very good copy; jacket a little chipped and rubbed at extremities with a couple of minor closed tears, otherwise very good. Excellent jacket artwork on this the last criminous title by Goodwin; a fugitive tale and a rare book in the jacket. Jacket artwork by Wilkins. (illustrator). Book.…

First edition, first impression of this crime novel. Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine and front board lettered in black. With dust jacket. Spine rolled, a little foxing to edges; an excellent copy in the jacket that has some nicks and chips to extremities.