Messer Mona Hocking Anne (7 results)

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. First UK paperback edition. Number 3 in the Toucan Novels series. 30th thousand stated on the front cover with the first eight titles in the series on the back cover. Probably the first printing. Originally published in hard covers in 1934. The author also published crime novels under the name Anne Hocking. Quite rare in any early edition. The spine has some reading creasing, staining and light chipping at the top and bottom. Browning to the white panel on the front cover but otherwise only light surface wear to the covers. Browning to the page edges. The covers are pulling away from the text block at the front of the book but the binding is secure enough. The insides of the covers have a little browning. Quite a bit of brown spotting to the first and last pages both of which have small circular holes torn in them where the page has been stuck to the inside of the cover and there is also a little edge tearing to these pages. The pages are browned but are otherwise unmarked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor/Fair. 1st Edition. An uncommon 1936 true first edition of Mona Messer's elusive pre-war novel Life Owes Me Something. This volume is undated on the title page as issued, cleanly identified by the original publisher's comprehensive 1936 catalogue at the rear. Soiling to blue boards, tear along joint with spine on rear cover, rear hinge cracked, starting hinge at front, but binding of text block remains firm, owner's name on ffep, pages otherwise unmarked, dedication page torn out but text block intact, catalogue at rear, lacks dust jacket. An exceptionally scarce, unrecorded copy perfectly suited for collectors of 1930s British middlebrow fiction and pseudonymous Golden Age crime authors. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First U.S. edition, so stated. [originally published in the United Kingdom in 1941 under the title "Miss Milverton". Bright red covers with Crime Club's logo on front covera nd with reverse red titles at spine as well as front cover. Age-toning to the end-sheets with more to the inner hinge areas as usual, light soiling to covers withfront fore-edge stained. The Sixth title to feature Chief Insp. William Austen. Hocking wrote over 40 books with more than 30 of them being cases for Chief Inspector Austen, a gentleman and a scholar, Only a small fraction of her work was ever published in the US. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition; First Printing. The front board is bowed, and rubbing to the edge of the boards. Pages tanned. Binding sound, an unmarked copy. The dust jacket is chipped along the top edges. Short tears and nicks to the flaps. Publisher's price of $2.00 to the front flap. Dark cloth in a pictorial dust jacket. A Chief Insp. William Austen mystery. ; Crime Club; 192 pages. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Grey w/silver lettering. Spine and edges darkened, scuffing to boards and spine, lower corners rubbed to boards, moderate general soil. Previous owner signature to front endpaper in pencil. Text is clean and white, no marks.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine Minus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First U.S. Edition. 8vo., 301pp. Sharp Stated First Edition, published as "Miss Milverton" in the UK a year earlier. Bound in red cloth with titles and Crime Club logo in black on spine and front board. Square, tight and clean throughout save some off-setting to end-papers though no toning or foxing to pages. Mild bumping to spine ends and some rubbing to bottom edge. Unfaded red top-stain. Still well-preserved. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.00) has a small chip to the crown and one at the heel. Moderate edge-wear with a couple of miniscule closed edge-tears. Still fresh and bright. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price. (Hubin, p.201).…

First Edition. Novel of mystery and intrigue. 'The mouse trap is the sinister Chateau du Bois, and Jennifer Talbot, beautiful young English girl, proves to be the mouse'. Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket, bit of loss at spine ends and flap corners, small internal chip at mid front panel.