Marie Connor Leighton, First Edition (18 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First Edition. The Silver Stair by Marie Connor Leighton (1st Ed) Hubin Listed, Ward File Copy A tight unread copy with water damaged warped cover.Bright gilt. Offset tan to endpapers. Bright text block. Poor. Top third of the jacket cover and spine are torn away. Torn damaged cover. Title page dated 1914. Red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, decorative embossing to spine and cover. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Contains: The World and Winstow by Edith Henrietta Fowler. Complete serialisation. The Journal of a Literary Woman in London by Annie S. Swan Episodes in serialisation. Short stories include: The Prodigal Son, A Country Lass, Sister Ursula, THe Last Call, A Very Woman, An Idyll of the Western Seas & The Absentee by Annie S. Swan, In the Mortola Gardens & The Wooing of the Grand Duke by Marie Connor Leighton, The Admirable Whang by Carlton Dawe, At the Time of the Great Tide by Una L. Silberrad, A Broken Engagement, The Mount of the Angels & When the Wicked Man by Adeline Sergeant, The Sailor Who Came Home by Menie Muriel Dowie, Beyond the Gates & Impossible Miss Clements by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Coquette by John Strange Winter, The Mystery of Susanna Tankerville by L. T. Meade & Clifford Halifax. Twelve issues bound together (without wrappers) in purple beaded binder's cloth. Contents in good order but binding considerbalt distresses, shabby and worn: Spine sunned, chipped on ends, splits to cloth on hinges, staining along top and bottom edges of boards. Fair only. A heavy volume which will require additional postage outside the UK. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of this scarce, Hubin listed mystery from the prolific author, Marie C. Leighton. Very good, spine slightly cocked, with endpapers tanned and froxed, else clean internally.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. A very clean bright tight copy. Small po inscription to fep. Minor foxing to endpapers.

A Good Copy of the First Edition in publishers Illustrated cloth 8vo. 238pps advertisement leaf and 22pp catalogue. dated April 1897 pages uncut. Wolff 1416: "Minister of Exmoor village is wrongly accused of murder of his rival for the hand of the local magistrate's daughter. " Marie Connor was the author of 'a number of sensational three-deckers'. before marrying Robert Leighton and collaborating on many novels.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine and a white heart on front. Cover tearng from spine, with silverfishing. There is no date given is 262 pp which varies from other listings, This is presumed to be the first printing of the book with NAP listed. There are incisions to the last few pages of the book but it does not obscure the text such that its not readable. Poor condition; read copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. London : John Macqueen. First Edition, 1897. First Edition in publishers Illustrated cloth 8vo. 238pps advertisement leaf and 22pp catalogue. dated April 1897 pages uncut. Boards grubby, corners bumped, slight spine lean, endpapers browned, previous owner¿s name to half-title, occasional spotting to page edges, previous owner¿s blind stamp to rear ffep. Binding sound.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Abby(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. The Hand of the Unseen by Marie Connor Leighton (First Edition) Rare DJ Publisher's Copy A tight bright clean unread File Copy with publisher's label to front panel. Front pastedown puckered. Bright dust jacket cover with a half-inch open tear to the upper cover/spine corner, very small chips to corner tips, a quarter-inch closed tear. Blank flaps with clipped corners. Brodart cover. Publisher's Copy. "File Copy" label to front panel. 1918 on title page. Dark red cloth, spine and cover lettered black with decorative blind-stamping. Pictorial dust jacket. 5/- DJ. Probably not a first edition. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Her Fate and His by Marie Connor Leighton (First Edition) Hubin Listed A firm square copy. "File Copy" label to front panel. Some rubbing to edges and dust-soiling. An inch closed tear. Faint damp stain to back cover. Title page dated 1921. Green cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. Plates. (illustrator). First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth. Not in the Jisc catalogues. One of several works written with husband Robert Leighton (their most famous collaboration being Convict 99). Said to be the first story in which the detective turns out to be the murderer. Occasional foxing; cloth slightly rubbed and rolled. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. The Duchess Grace by Marie Connor Leighton (First Edition) File Copy A tight square copy. Unread. Moderate edge wear. Some dust-soiling and rubbed edges. Brodart cover. Title page dated 1918. Brown embossed cloth, spine and cover lettered black. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Geraldine Walton - Woman! by Marie Connor Leighton 1st, Hubin Listed, File Copy A firm square copy. Water damage to covers. A bright jacket cover, some dust soiling. A long tear almost detaching back cover. Brodart cover. Title page dated 1914. Red cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. The Fires of Love by Marie Connor Leighton (First Edition) Hubin Listed, File Copy A tight bright copy. Unread. "File Copy" label to front panel. A bright jacket cover. Rubbed chipped spine. Some dust-soiling. Brodart cover. Title page dated 1915. Decorative embossed maroon cloth, spine and cover lettered gilt. Tissue-guarded color frontispiece. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Convict 100 by Marie Connor Leighton (First Edition) Hubin Listed, File Copy A very firm square copy. Sun fade to spine and edges, A bright jacket cover. Faded greyed spine. A few minor closed tears and chip. Brodart cover. Title page dated 1920. Red cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Abbey(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. The Silent Clue by Marie Connor Leighton (Hubin Listed) Abbey Cvr File Copy A firm square copy. Slight fade to spine and cover edges. "File Copy" stamped to front free endpaper. Rubbing to edges, minor tears. An inch open tear to spine. Very faint damp stain to back cover. Brodart cover. No date. Circa 1921. Red cloth. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. Very rare in DJ. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. J. Abbey(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. The Opal Heart by Marie Connor Leighton (First Edition) Ward File Copy A tight square copy. Bright cloth and lettering, slight damp-stain dulling to the sheen. Faint damp-stain to the spine and lower cover edges, chipped upper spine edge. Brodart cover. Title page dated 1920. A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Gilbert(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. The Gates of Sorrow by Marie Connor Leighton (First Edition) Hubin Listed A firm square bright copy with slight damp damage dulling the sheen of the back cover edges. Some dust-soiling and faint damp-stain to the dust jacket covers at bottom. Brodart cover. Title page dated 1915. Red cloth with gilt lettering and decorative embossing. Pictorial dust jacket. A Hubin listed Mystery. Tremendously rare in DJ. BOOK.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Brentano's, 1899. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's grey pictorial cloth stamped in three colors; viii,328pp.; frontispiece, five leaves of plates. General shelf wear including some brief exposure at corners and spine ends, spine slightly cocked, rear hinge cracked but holding, textblock a bit brittle from poor paper quality. Still, overall Very Good. Relatively early novel for the prolific English author Marie Connor Leighton. Deemed by one contemporary critic "the sort of detective story that chains you to your chair till you have finished it," the story opens with a murder with three (!) potential causes of death.