Rhode John Cecil Street (90 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher. 192 pages (Canadian Collins White Circle # 415 ) - BURTON, Miles (1884-1965; Pseudonym of Major Cecil John Charles Street; AKA= John Rhode); - Devil's Reckoning (Mystery/ Borderline Fantasy; 1st paperback; Scarce; Fantasy elements; Nice Painted cover of pretty, woman lying dead on a bed, rose in hands!; Inspector Arnold/ D. Merrion series); Goodread notes = "A village steeped in black magic, an aristocratic vicar and his wayward wife (whose corpse turns up on the family tomb), and a neat tying-in of local legend." >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; tape to covers & spine; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover (illustrator). Book. …

Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. Dr. Priestly investigates when a doctor is poisoned in an apparently impossible crime. Adey 1595. First Perennial printing. Very gently handled, pages tanned.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition By This Publisher. 192 pages (Canadian Collins White Circle # 415 ) - BURTON, Miles (1884-1965; Pseudonym of Major Cecil John Charles Street; AKA= John Rhode); - Devil's Reckoning (Mystery/ Borderline Fantasy; 1st paperback; Scarce; Fantasy elements; Nice Painted cover of pretty, woman lying dead on a bed, rose in hands!; Inspector Arnold/ D. Merrion series); Goodread notes = "A village steeped in black magic, an aristocratic vicar and his wayward wife (whose corpse turns up on the family tomb), and a neat tying-in of local legend." >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; Spine wear; 1/2" piece missing from bottom of paper spine; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover (illustrator). Book.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Printing. First printing. Vintage Paperback, Avon #21, I.N. Steinberg cover illustration. Foreward by John Rhode and an introduction by A.A. Milne. 20 stories from Golden Age authors: Agatha Christie, Carter Dickson, R.Austin Freeman, Dorothy Sayers, E.C. Bently et al.368 pages. Steinberg, I.N. (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 192 S., gepr. OHLn. m. zahlr. gez. Ill.; einige Ss. leicht knickspurig, wenig fleckig. - In Fraktur. Kriminalroman um Kokain und Liebe. Übersetzung von Wilh[elm] Cremer (1874 - 1932). Zuerst 1925: »A.S.F. - Der Weg ins Traumland.«, englische OA 1924: »A.S.F. - The Story of a Great Conspiracy.« - (ZwSt).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. 192 pages. >> Canadian Collins White Circle Book # 72; >>" In addition to being a brilliantly told crime story, it presents an intriiguing picture of the British Home Guard getting ready to face an invasion." Preceded by the rare 1942 UK & USA Hardcovers; >>> VERY RARE TITLE by this Highly Collectible author; VERY RARE number in the Canadian Collins White Circle Collectible Vintage Paperback series; >> Store Stamp on front endpage; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Line Drawn Cover Art. (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher. CWC book #289 - BURTON, Miles (1884-1965; Pseudonym of Major Cecil John Charles Street; AKA= John Rhode); - Early Morning Murder (mystery; 1st paperback; Scarce; Line Drawn with Wash Cover Art ;later USA edition retitled "Accidents Do Happen"; Inspector Arnold/ D. Merrion series); >> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; wear to paper spine; pen to front end page; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Line Drawn Cover with Wash Cover Art (gives Painted Cover effect) (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pages mildly tanned with very sporadic foxing, more so on the preliminaries, rear endpapers and the page edges, paper cracked on hinges which are slightly slack, but binding is otherwise firm; cover has uneven loss of colour, particularly on the spine, and edges are worn, again on the spine in particular. No wrapper. Not a pretty copy but still a serviceable one.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 2nd Printing. 2nd printing. Lacks jacket. Boards soiled, corners slightly exposed, hinges weakening, transfer to endpapers as if the flaps of the now-absent jacket had at one point been adhered, tiny chip from fore edge margin of p. 23/24. 1939 Hard Cover. 280 pp. A collaboration by two pseudonymous crime fiction authors (John Rhode was Cecil Street, a British army major turned writer; Carter Dickson was one of several pen names used by John Dickson Carr). The humming noise of the automatic elevator stopped and the hall porter glanced idly toward the bronze doors. Twenty minutes later, when no one had emerged, the porter became uneasy and forced the doors open. Inside he found Sir Ernest Tallant, dead! Shot through the heart in a hermetically sealed elevator! It looked like the perfect crime - until Dr. Horatio Glass, in his blundering way, set Inspector Hornbeam on the track of the one crucial clue. Two famous detective story writers combine their masterly talents in this baffling and suspenseful mystery novel.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. Light page tanning, a little foxing to edges, else internally in very good condition; cover has slight wear and foxing.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition( so stated). Who was the Funny Toff, the terror alike of criminals and Scotland Yard? A NEAR FINE book (small book seller's stamp to front paste down and rear free end paper) in NEAR FINE ( rubbing at corners and one small closed tear to base of rear jacket panel) jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. First edition .Near Fine book in a Very Good + jacket ( light shallow chipping to spine ends). Black cloth boards stamped in green. Nice example of the art deco style "Gene" illustrated jacket ! ** See our new cheaper postal rates to the USA and abroad.**.…

Soft cover. Condition: Poor/Fair, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher. later USA ed retitled "Who Killed the Doctor"; Inspector Arnold/ D. Merrion series; >> This is a reading copy. Heavy cover creasing; 1/2 apaer spine is missing; tape to covers & pine; corners clipped to front & back cover; minor pen to frotn end page; 2" x 2" piece missing from title page. staining to interior pages. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. M. Paull - Painted Cover Art; (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: GOOD+. First Edition By This Publisher. 190 pages. "Criminous tale of the unknown man found dying in the Channel Islands boat-train at Waterloo." >> Cover creasing; wear to cover edges; name & address in pen to front end page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper else a NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD PLUS jacket with rubbing , some creasing and light soil to jacket; no chipping. Terrific cover art by H.A. Peace .

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Lacks jacket. Deaccessioned copy of Auburn Circulating Library, with their name crossed out and remnants of a removed cover on endpapers. Edges and front/end matter foxed, rear endpaper excised causing cut to portion of final text page, ink name (Edith F. Dulles, of the Dulles/Lansing family) and portion of absent jacket on front endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. 298 pp. The third book in the Dr. Lancelot Priestley series. A pseudonymous crime novel by Cecil John Charles Street, a British army major turned writer who became one of the most popular authors of the Golden Age of Crime. Sir Noel Ellerby is recalled by his butler to his Lincolnshire mansion, Laxford Hall, after thieves break-in. Oddly, nothing appears to have been stolen. The following morning Sir Noel is found lying dead before the open door of his safe. The physician called to examine the body declares that death was due to heart failure but Scotland Yard thinks differently. Stumped as to motive and manner of the crime, Inspector Hanslet engages the assistance of Sir Noel's old friend, Dr Lancelot Priestley, and that relentless interrogator loses no time in bringing into play his peculiar powers of logical scientific reasoning.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First American edition. A few small white spots on boards, jacket edges rubbed with minor loss from corners. 1937 Hard Cover. 303 pp. A detective novel written pseudonymously by former British artillery officer Cecil Street. He wrote dozens of novels featuring Dr. Priestley from 1925-1961. Copies of his works in original jackets, especially those in the Red Badge series, are quite uncommon.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition of a title published first in the U.K. as "Dr. Goodwood's Locum". A NEAR FINE copy ( bumped at the corners) in a VERY GOOD + jacket. A PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED , DATED and SIGNED on the front free endpaper in the author's tiny hand." For, R.W. Gibb, In happy memory of the M.V. Bualbeck ( ?) June -July 1952. John Rhode." A VERY SCARCE AUTOGRAPH probably inscribed to a fellow passenger on a cruise in Europe . M.V. is a short form for a cruise ship used on inland waterways .There appear to be very few instances where the author has autographed anything. No examples of his use of Miles Burton , Cecil Waye or Cecil John Charles Street. Signed by Author(s).…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Albatross 105. Dr. Priestley investigates when two people are killed in an auto race. Scarce, one of the first batch of Albatross mysteries published. Rubbed with loss to the corners and the lower half of the spine missing. 1/2" loss to the spine head with tape repair. Pages tanned, previous owner's name in pencil on the title page, date 22/12/41.…

288pp. 8vo. Original red/pink cloth. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback bound in faded red cloth with black titles, boards marked and stained with wear at edges, spine sunned, page edges foxed, bookseller/library stamp on front endpapers + 485 on front endpaper, corner of pages 25/26 torn off but text not effected. 288 pages.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 30 1:B&W 5.5 x 8.5 in or 216 x 140 mm (Demy 8vo) Perfect Bound on Creme w/Gloss Lam.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Owner's neat ink name on front pastedown, dated in year of publication. Binding modestly cocked with the spine toned, page edges and preliminary and terminal leaves with some foxing, very good in an about very good dust jacket with tiny chips and tears, a slightly larger L-shaped tear on the soiled rear panel, and two internal reinforcements. Cecil John Charles Street also wrote under the pseudonym Miles Burton. Hubin, *Crime Fiction*, p.334.…

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 30.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 257 pp. light wear to cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with green lettering to front and spine, no dustjacket. 286pp. Pictorial endpapers. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (32/2).

Hardcover. First US Edition. Published in the UK as Pinehurst. 278pp. Orange cloth stamped in black on the front and the spine, decorated endpapers. Tiny bookstore label on front free endpaper. A couple of small spots to cloth, light toning to spine panel. A bright very good+ copy. In Hubin, 2003, p. 1266. ; Octavo. …

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; [8],294pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine slightly cocked, faint ring stains to upper cover, latter half of textblock toned (evidently the printer used two batches of stock of varying quality), else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. A locked room murder, the room in this case the victim's niece's bathroom. Forms part of the author's popular series of novels featuring the armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. Reprint; Third Printing. Reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers. black boards with red titles, binding shaken, boards pulled at pages 96/97 & 192/193, boards marked and worn, page edges grubby. 251 pages + 5 pages of publisher's adverts.…

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers. library binding, boards bumped at corners, page edges tanned, pencil scribble on endpapers. 192 pages.