Rhode John Pseud Cecil Street (33 results)

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.**.…

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 .

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).…

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

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. One of the last Lancelot Priestley novels by this prolific writer. A good copy in rather worn jacket with some minor loss. One of the last Lancelot Priestley novels by this prolific writer. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d. A very late entry in the Priestley sequence, published seven years before Street's death and belonging to the final phase of the series, in which Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn of Scotland Yard carries the bulk of the investigation and Priestley presides from his study in the manner that gave the armchair detective his name. Toning to margins of text-block; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket with section of loss to upper fore-corner of inside front flap, very small section of loss to foot of lower panel, otherwise very good. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. A wartime Dr Priestley mystery. During an air raid on the village of Yardley Green in December 1940, a diamond merchant is found dead in a bomb crater, but he was alive after the raid, and the diamonds he carried are missing. Jimmy Waghorn investigates and Dr Priestley supplies the solution. Curtis Evans has praised its wartime atmosphere and ingenious plotting. "John Rhode" was Major Cecil Street (18841964), also "Miles Burton", whose first editions are now scarce and much sought by collectors. Cloth slightly softened at head of spine, some minor bumping and marking. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. The Priestley books followed the tradition of Conan Doyle's Holmes and R. Austin Freeman's Dr Thorndyke in making scientific detection the centre of the method, and it is the technical ingenuity of the murder means - rather than character or atmosphere, in neither of which Street took much interest - for which the series is valued. Some toning to text-block; spine slightly lightened. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d. A late Dr Priestley detective novel. The theft of £9,750 from a locked room at the Fendyke branch of the Capital and Provinces Bank, with no sign of forced entry, has completely baffled Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn. Eighteen months later the murder of Edgar Chelmsford, an unpopular local businessman found dead in a ditch beside his damaged motorcycle, takes Waghorn back to Fendyke. Julian Symons placed Street among the "Humdrum" school, but Jacques Barzun admired several of the Rhode novels, and Curtis Evans's Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery (2012) has prompted a reappraisal. His books are now scarce and much sought by collectors. Minor toning to margins; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket worn at spine ends and fore-corners with minor loss, light tape burns to inside front flaps. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. The fourteenth Priestley novel, published in America as Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap, and set against the real RAC Motor Rally. Dilys Powell in The Spectator judged that Priestley as usual takes nothing on trust and that Rhode achieves a pretty piece of deduction; Isaac Anderson in The New York Times thought it one of the best of the series, and that no faint praise. Minor foxing to extremities; cloth little rubbed and creased at spine. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. The 39th Priestley novel, and one of the group of wartime titles in which Street drew directly on Home Front machinery for his settings. Cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket price-clipped, chipped at head of spine, minor toning. Book. …

256pp. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition, very scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Popular Edition. 'Popular Edition', second impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6. First published by Bles in September 1926 as the second appearance of Lancelot Priestley, and described as the first major detective novel by its author - the book in which the machinery of the series is properly assembled. Uncommon in the jacket. Light toning to text-block; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket with some closed tears and chips with minor loss. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. The thirteenth case for Dr Lancelot Priestley, the armchair scientist-detective of John Rhode, pseudonym of Major Cecil Street, among the most prolific of Golden Age detective novelists. Some foxing, including to extremities of text-block; cloth slightly rubbed with some lean. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 'Popular Edition', second impression. 'Popular Edition', second impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-. The fifth appearance of Lancelot Priestley, first published by Bles in 1928 following directly on The Murders in Praed Street, and belonging to the run of late-1920s titles in which the series took its settled shape - Priestley presiding, Harold Merefield in attendance, Inspector Hanslet of Scotland Yard supplying the official view for Priestley to dismantle. Some very light foxing/toning, ink name to front free endpaper; jacket with a few chips and small tears, larger closed tear descending down spine. Jacket artwork by Abbey. (illustrator). Book.…

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price neatly excised from spine. The jacket's menacing photographic artwork enhances this early Dr Priestley title. An uncommon book in the original jacket. Contemporary ink name to front free endpaper, a little minor spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves; cloth very slightly sunned at spine; jacket with price removed from spine, a few small closed tears, but overall a very good copy. The jacket's menacing photographic artwork enhances this early Dr Priestley title. An uncommon book in the original jacket. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. A non-series thriller turning on a great conspiracy, published in the United States as The White Menace - a title which points plainly enough at the drug traffic that is its subject. This is Street's first book under the Rhode name, preceding the appearance of Dr Priestley by a year, and thus the beginning of a career that would run to something in the region of a 140 detective novels. Street (18841964) held the MC and OBE, served as an artillery officer and MI7 propagandist during the First World War and afterwards as Information Officer for Dublin Castle. Ink name to front endpaper; cloth slightly sunned at spine and edges. Book.…

Condition: Very good. 'Popular Edition', second printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, with price-sticker '5/-' on spine. A decent, early edition of this the second appearance of armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who featured in a long-running series of novels during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Light toning to text-block, ink name to front free endpaper; cloth slightly sunned at spine ends; jacket with slight loss to spine ends and corners, some minor marking, but the upper panel complete and bright. A decent, early edition of this the second appearance of armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who featured in a long-running series of novels during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Book.…

Condition: Very good. "Popular edition" first reprint. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6 (second issue?). Browning to free endpapers, some light foxing; cloth slightly rubbed and sunned at head of spine; jacket with wear to head of spine, some other chips and creasing. Jacket artwork by Abbey. An uncommon early issue of this rare Rhodes title, originally published in 1928, the jacket featuring the original classic artwork by well-known artist Abbey; one of this prolific author's earliest books, set against a yachting culture backdrop. Book.…

Condition: Very good. First US edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00. A mysterious beam of light wreaks havoc in this Dr Priestley novel. Nice jacket artwork. Book VG+; jacket partly sunned with some rubbing, but still VG. A mysterious beam of light wreaks havoc in this Dr Priestley novel. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Ver good. First US edition. First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original grey cloth stamped in red. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00. Dr Priestley investigates a perplexing death at a motor show, exemplifying Street's intricate plotting and methodical detective work. Published as Mystery at Olympiain the UK. Leon Louis desRosiers, Sr. (18901968) was an American artist known for his contributions to book cover and dus- jacket illustrations during the 1930s. A couple of small tears to head of jacket spine, but otherwise a great example. Jacket artwork by Leon Louis desRosiers, Sr. (illustrator). Book. …

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial green cloth; [10],308pp. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly scuffed, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good and sound copy, albeit lacking the rare dust jacket. Locked room (well, hotel) detective novel featuring five yachtsmen, investigator Dr. Priestley, and the body of Dr. Grinling.…

Condition: Very Good -. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red boards, black spine titling; 255pp. Boards rubbed and rather bumped along margins with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, occasional soiling to binding and textblock, textblock additionally rather toned due to inferior paper quality, spine a bit creased and cocked; a Good to Very Good copy, albeit lacking uncommon jacket. One of seventy-two detective novels pseudonymously written by Cecil Rhodes featuring the investigative prowess of Dr. Priestley.…

Condition: Very Good. Good +. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, orange topstain, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],262pp. Dust jacket extremities heavily chipped and worn with small losses along front flap folds and spine ends, corners bumped, hinges starting, old glue residue to front pastedown from previously-removed ex libris, else a Very Good copy in a Good or better example of the uncommon dust jacket. Crime novel involving a diamond heist, an unrecognizable body in a tar burner, and armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley's genius to link the two. First published in the U.K. the previous year under the title Proceed with Caution.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); [8],240pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins including a few small closed tears with subsequent creasing to the former, endpapers heavily foxed, else Very Good and sound.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in dark blue; [6],276pp. Moderate wear to cloth margins with brief exposure at corners, spine quite sunned, light soil to textblock margins not bleeding into text; a Very Good and sound copy overall. A Red Badge Detective novel.…

dj. Second Impression. Octavo (19cm); flexible red cloth boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-207,[1]pp. Light wear, gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges, else clean throughout; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, shelfworn, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases, and some dust-soil to rear panel; Very Good. Attractive wartime reprint of this novel, first published by Bles in 1930. HUBIN, p.344.…

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1959. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); [6],250pp. A few tiny chips to jacket margins, with a shallow dampstaining at head and tail, more visible to verso and not affecting cloth or textblock, and brief paper abrasion to jacket spine verso; red portion of spine panel faded, boards bumped at corners, else a Very Good copy of this late Dr. Priestley detective novel.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in black, yellow topstain; [6],250pp. A hint of shelf wear, spine slightly cocked, small bump to top edge of rear cover, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy, albeit lacking the scarce dust jacket. A Red Badge Detective novel. Both a locked room and a country house mystery novel featuring armchair detective Lancelot Priestley. Perhaps it's just as well this copy lacks the dust jacket: Dorothy Sayers complained in her review that the jacket gave away the solution.…