Mark Derby Harry Wilcox (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible; VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket present as described. First Edition. This hardcover book is square and tight. The boards and spine have no wear with pristine lettering. The pages and endpages are clean, with no markings or folds. The dustjacket is Very Good with minor wear to the points and extremities at the spine. Original Price is intact. Not ex-lib. No remainder mark.…

256 pages. Hardcover: H 21cm x L 14cm. Dust jacket rubbed, some soiling to white rear panel, shallow chipping and nicks as well as several short tears at edges. Yellow cloth. Grayish-green top edge. Toning to endpapers. Interior pages are clean. Binding retains some crispness. A very good+ copy in a good+ dust jacket.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Paperback Printing. A lightly creased spine with light edge rubbings.No store stamp. Ace $.35 D-458.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Previous owner's rubber stamped name to front free endpaper ; damp stain to verso of rear jacket panel and rear boards. Outwardly a VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD jacket with some wear to spine ends and the damp stain to verso as mentioned. No price on jacket indicating export issue. Listed in Hubin.…

Hardcover. First Edition. 244pp. Cloth backed boards. A mystery set in Malaya. About fine in very good dustjacket with fading to spine panel, and a few minor chips and wear to edges. Cover art by Hoffman. ; Octavo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Suspense, adventure and romance set in the back streets of Singapore and the Malayan jungle. CONDITION Blue bds with crisp Gilt title (unworn) pp 255. Nice crisp copy with mild foxed end pages and edges. Original DJ has sl rubbed spine head, not price clipped. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.…

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Bright first editions of these three exciting thriller novels by three popular writers, in the original unclipped dust wrappers. The first editions of these three works in the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers.Three suspenseful thriller novels by three different authors.Five Nights in Singapore (1961) or Ghost Blonde, is a scarce thriller by the suspense novelist Mark Derby, otherwise known as Harry Wilcox. In this novel, Nicko Strang is sent to Singapore, where he uncovers a murder. The Unquiet Sleep (1962) is the fourth suspense novel featuring Colonel Charles Russell, by Richard Henry Michael Clayton (1907-1993) under the pseudonym William Haggard. Russell is the head of the Security Executive, a government counterintelligence agency based on MI5. In this novel Russell investigates the sinister world of commercial narcotics. This book is now uncommon to see.Think, Inc. (1971) is the last book in the Philip McAlpine series by Adam Diment, and is now uncommon to see. In this thrilling novel, the reluctant spy McAlpine becomes mixed up in a variety of incidents, including the skyjacking of a Boeing 707. In the publisher's original cloth bindings, with the original unclipped dust wrappers. Externally, cloth is bright and smart to all volumes. Spine is cocked to Five Nights. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Dust wrapper to Five Nights is bright but chipped, with a loss to the tail of the spine of the wrap, and a little shelf wear to the spine and rear of the wrap. Dust wrapper is generally smart to Unquiet Sleep, with some shelf wear, more so to the head and tail of the spine of the wrap. Dust wrapper to Think, Inc. is very bright and smart, with just a couple of faint marks to the rear of the wrap. Near Fine. Not Stated (illustrator). book.…