Rivett Carol (22 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator). 1st Edition. APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ.Minimal wear to book. Pages are clean,bright and tight. No name or inscription.Prize label on f.e.p. Front hinge is cracking.

Green hardback cloth cover. Condition: Good. Reprint. G : in good condition without dust jacket. Page edges browning. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 256pp. B/w drawings.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Prize plate stuck to front free endpaper. Black and white illustrations throughout. Binding remains firm. Pages and illustrations have light tanning and foxing throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has moderate edgewear with chips, tears, and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges. Foxing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good to Worn. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator). Pages of book are browned.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Green boards Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 256 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Contains black and white illustrations. Binding remains firm. Moderate tanning to pages and illustrations throughout. Water stain to front free endpaper. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Slight crushing to spine ends. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. jacket is rubbed,marked and edgeworn.sticker,mild foxing.well bound.[J.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Condition: Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read but remains in clean condition. All of the pages are intact and the cover is intact and the spine may show signs of wear. The book may have minor markings which are not specifically mentioned. No dust jacket. Minor shelf wear. A tan to the page edges. A neat dedication on the first page. Contents remain clear and firm within. A good condition book.

Cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: With Jacket. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator). First Edition. Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. very good, ,in a very good jacket with rubbed extremities, and a 2 cm closable tear to top edge, undated with owners inscription to title page pp 256, line drawings, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: With Jacket. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator). First Edition. Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. very good ,in a very good jacket with rubbed extremities, undated with owners inscription dated 1961 pp 256, line drawings, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator). First Edition. dj (price unclipped) slightly worn on edges, bottom of spine torn off, '50c' written on ink on top front, front flap creased, blue cloth with red spine lettering, lower spine faded, illustrated by LILIAN BUCHANAN, flyleaf removed, some foredge foxing, else vg. 8vo, 256pp.

Cloth. Dust Jacket Condition: With Jacket. Lilian Buchanan (illustrator). First Edition. Cloth. With Jacket. First Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Near Fine ,in a very good jacket with rubbed and nicked ends pp 256, line drawings, Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. Clean paperback, front card cover partially detached, covers worn at edges, spine creased, pages age tanned, drawing in red biro of horse? unicorn? bull? on half title page. 192 pages. Undated but assume mid 1950s Crime Club no.279c.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Dust jacket price clipped. Some rubbing/creasing to corners and edges of jacket. Some toning to title page. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. (lacking the original dust jacket, but encased in a professionally-made facsimile reproduction of same; see 2nd image posted with this listing) [a good sound copy, a little wear at the spine ends, fading to spine and (more severely) to an approximately 1-in-wide strip at the left edge of the rear cover;one-time owner's initials plus date & place of purchase written in ink along the edge of the rear pastedown (concealed beneath the jacket flap)]. "The Ministry of Fine Arts had come into being during the short era of optimism following World War Two. Since its inception it had suffered from what might be called infant mortality. The first Minister died after six months in office, the second just before the General Election. Death claimed its third victim when Edwin Pompfret, deputy Permanent Secretary, was crushed to death by the fall of a larger-than-life bust that stood at the head of a flight of stairs. . Here indeed is the crime of murder carried out with an artistic touch, which evokes the reluctant admiration of Inspector Rivers of Scotland Yard." This was the ninth book (of 15) in the Inspector Rivers mystery series, that ran from 1945 to the end of the author's life in the late 1950s; during that period, it ran concurrently with the same author's Inspector MacDonald books (written under her more prolific pseudonym, E.C.R. Lorac), which had begun with her first novel in 1932. Critic Mary Ann Grochowski, writing in Reilly's "Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers," commented that Inspector Rivers "is remarkably like Inspector MacDonald, although more meditative and less inclined to romping through the bush." Carnac/Lorac's work didn't receive much posthumous attention until the 2020s, when a number of her books have been reissued in the British Library Crime Classics series (four Carnac titles to date -- including this one -- and more than a dozen by Lorac); despite being out of print for 60 years, however, she clearly retained a following, as evidenced by the scarcity of most of her first editions (both the U.K. and U.S. issues) in today's marketplace. NOTE again that this book bears a FACSIMILE dust jacket, to serve the dual purpose of protecting the book from further wear and enhancing its appearance on the shelf; its presence has not been factored in to our pricing.

HARD BACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: CREASED DJ. Bottom of dj was trimmed with only half of the author's name showing, also creased along the spine and edges. The book itself has general shelf wear, deckled and slightly yellowed fore edges. DATE PUBLISHED: 1946 EDITION: 270.

Hardcover. Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Ezra Jack Keats (illustrator). First edition. A rare mystery by the British author best-known as E.C.R. Lorac, towards the end of her life. Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard turns up to conduct the investigation of an accident in the snow that involves two vehicles, one of them driven by elderly, who dies in the crash. But when people look inside his car, a second body is discovered. The deceased is not a local, and he died before the accident. Dust jacket has edge-wear, unclipped ($2.75). First edition. 5¾" - 8½". book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Chief Inspector Julian Rivers investigates murder & blackmail on the Welsh border. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; stated first edition (first printing). Light wear to book, minor bumping to corners, tanned pages; jacket edgeworn, chipped & foxed with long tear to front panel, crease. Text clean, no names or marks; 190 pages. Size: Octavo.

Condition: Very good. Jacket artwork by William Randell. (illustrator). Architecture + murder = classic stuff. First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 10s6d. Architecture + murder = classic stuff. Small patch of discolouration to lower board; jacket chipped with some loss to spine ends, patch of discolouration to top edge of lower panel. Book.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION PRESENTED WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by William Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (29 x 22cm), with original notes in ink and pencil to backing board. Presented in a custom-made fleece-lined black quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine and black cloth over sides. Total dimensions 33 x 24cm. A lovely crisp copy with just a little rubbing jacket edges. Artwork in lovely bright condition, with some wear due to its original use. Fine. A unique presentation of this classic crime mystery set in a nursing home for burnt-out financiers.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Crime Thriller] FIRST EDITION PRESENTED WITH ORIGINAL JACKET ARTWORK. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Randell, priced at 10/6. Together with the original artwork hand-painted by Randell (31 x 25cm), with original notes in ink and pencil to backing board. Presented in a custom-made fleece-lined red quarter morocco clamshell box, with gilt titles to spine and red cloth over sides. Total dimensions 35 x 28cm. Jacket a little toned to spine, with some wear and chipping to edges. Artwork in lovely bright condition, with some wear due to its original use. Near fine. A unique presentation of this classic crime mystery concerning a murder and a burnt-out church in a close-knit rural community.

Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition. 190 pp. Blue cloth with pale blue lettering. Very Good+ with toned contents, offsetting to endpapers , in Near Fine unclipped dust jacket, lightly foxed and toned, small nick in front gutter, but unfaded and bright. A rare mystery by the British author best-known as E.C.R. Lorac.