Philip Cleife (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. COVER MAY NOT MATCH THE PICTURE ON THIS SITE. AN EXCELLENT READING OR REFERENCE COPY! Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket and cover show edge wear. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show very minor shelving wear. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Dust jacket shows light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. 222 pages; corners bumped, some edge wear to boards; Martyn finch, well known for his paintings of skyscapes, was tired of painting them, however successfully. He and a girl named Katey went to Segovia to vacation, while he looked for fresh artistic inspiration.Then when he was only momentarily not looking at Katey, she vanished, with his car and all his possessions.Eventually he found a note from her: "We will catch up with you at Madrid.Or Valencia if we miss you at Madrid."He couldn't imagine who "we" were.So begins this swift, knowledgeable, often funny novel of international art forgery.…

Hardbound. Condition: Very Good. 1st U.S. Edition, 1st Printing. Description: Dust jacket design by Robert Fillie. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Martyn Finch, well known for his paintings of skyscapes, was tired of painting them, however successfully. He and a girl named Katey went to Segovia to vacation, while he looked for fresh artistic inspiration. Then, when he was only momentarily not looking at Katey, she vanished, with his car and all his possessions. Eventually he found a note from her: 'We will catch up with you at Madrid . Or Valencia if we miss you at Madrid.' He couldn't imagine who 'we' were. So begins this swift, knowledgeable, often funny novel of international art forgery.'' BINDNG/CONDITION: light blue binding with black at the spine; a Near Fine book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. Printed endpapers. 8vo (about 8.5 inches tall). 247 pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Book Club Edition. edgeworn and chipped dustjacket.

Condition: Good. Little wear to boards. Content is clean with some spotting. Good DJ with little edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: VG / VG. Hardcover in very good dust jacket / Book Club Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. VG/G+, 1st edn.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. This novel by Cleife features an artist named Martyn Finch. Finch, an ex-pilot, who now makes a decent living painting sea and sky-scapes, decides on a vacation to Spain with his girl friend, Katey. In Segovia, Katey vanishes with Finch's car and possessions. On the very edge of down-and-out, Finch accepts a job piloting a decripit old airplane and then suddenly finds himself forging a Salvador Dali painting. And, of course, when he admists the forgery, no one, especially the experts, will believe him. First Printing, First U.S. Edition (as stated, with a complete numberline on the back end page following the last page of text), a Harper Novel of Suspense. About 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, 247 pages in light blue cloth-covered boards and black back strip with white and blue lettering. Front panel of dustjacket shows a surrealistic blue airplane shaped like a shark hovering in a pale yellow sky above a moon with a Dali-esque face, including the mustache. Back panel shows b & w photo of author. Boards and text are complete, clean and unmarked, no significant flaws of any kind except light bumping at top end of spine. Not ex-library. Dustjacket shows a touch of edgewear but no tears, creases or scratches. Not price-clipped. A collectable copy. If you like art crime mysteries with a touch of humor, this is one for your collection.…

Hard Cover. Condition: very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. very good hardcover. some wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Near fine hardcover with near fine unclipped dust jacket. Straight secure spine with tight hinges and clean interior.

hardcover. First Edition. Fine in price-clipped fine Dust Jacket. The author's first mystery involves the painting & marketing of a faux Salvatore Dali, introduces Martyn Finch.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First edition of the author's first book. A novel of forged art and murder! A FINE book in FINE jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Fair. No dust jacket. First Edition. Reading copy. Former library book with usual marks and stamps. No dust jacket. Small splits to top and bottom of spine. Title and contents page are partly detached.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. FIRST EDITION with dust jacket - rare and collectable - will send out 1 st class post.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Correct number line, including the 1 (on the second to last page). A fine book in a fine dust jacket. A tight clean copy, which has some slight wear to head of spine. Jacket unclipped with original publisher's price of $5.95 intact. Comes with archival-quality dust jacket protector. Shipped in well padded box.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Book is in very good unmarked condition. Dust jacket is in good condition with some wear, tears and chipping. Dust jacket condition preserved within new clear plastic removable non-adhesive protective covering. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 245 pages. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0904507114. ISBN/EAN: 9780904507119. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 9291.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1970 Macmillan Hardcover 1st Edition 1st Impression : Near fine clean tight binding in near fine unclipped dustjacket .

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 245pp; presentation copy with letter included; colourful d/j with edgewear to top end by spine and one tear to rear top edge. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. VG+ DW. 1st Edition. Book is in nearly fine condition with only slightest signs of wear and/or age. Dustwrapper/dustjacket is in very good plus condition with very minor signs of wear and/or age.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. VG+ DW. 1st Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine DJ. 1st US Edition. Harper and Row 1971 1st US Edition Fine/Fine DJ Like new Black cloth-like spine having white and pale-blue lettering with pale-blue grey cloth-like boards with white logo on front. Decorative purple and white end papers. Upper page edges dyed charcoal. Inside page edges deckled. 10+247+3 pages. Like new dust jacket with Seaplane with large front windows and moon-shape drawing of face with handlebar mustache. Like new Dust jacket protected in clear Bordart dust jacket cover. 1.1 Pounds. Size: 8 1/4 x 5 3/4 x 1 inches.…

First edition, first printing. Near fine in good dustjacket with tears. Related material laid in.

First Edition. 8vo. pp.221.original blue hardcover in edge rubbed else very good complete dust wrapper. A novel of forged art and real murder.

Hardcover. Condition: Collectible-Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st UK Edition. 255pp; presentation copy with loose amendment for the US edition inserted; inscribed by author on fep.; bit of edgewear to d/j at top, white spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.