Rodda Charles Percival (11 results)

8vo. 146 pp. Turquoise-blue publisher's cloth, black lettering on spine, w/ d.j. surrealistic cover art by Carlo (slight chipping head of spine, dustsoiling), still VG/VG copy. First edition of this uncommon mystery/science fiction set in Cornwall, and a house featuring an extra-dimensional portal. Rodda (1891-1976) was an Australian journalist, and music critic in Melbourne, and New York, and then became a mystery writer in London, under the pseudonyms of Gavin Holt, Gardner Low, and Eliot Reed with Eric Ambler.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket by Stead (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear, chipping, creasing and short closed tears to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners rubbed with small loss, some slight yellowing to back jacket and page block, faint spotting to page fore edges. Not price clipped (8/6), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg copy for its age. 238pp. A story of American servicemen in Britain during WWII. Australian journalist and novelist Percival Charles Rodda (1891-1976), spent time in New York as a music critic. In 1926 he came to London and became a novelist, sometimes using the pseudonym Gavin Holt. This is his third novel, quite a scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 340 pages. Small octavo (7 3/4" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's purple cloth with green letter in to s pine and cover in original pictorial jacket. First American edition. In London the great criminologist Professor Bastion is preparing for a trip to Cannes. Comes startling news. The world's arch-criminal, The Hawk, has struck again. Missing since the war, there is undeniable evidence that he is alive and eager for prey and fray. He has murdered a millionaire from the Argentine, leaving the characteristic mark, a poker chip, on which is engraved in brilliant green the outline of a hawk. Condition: Previous owner's inscription to front end paper. Jacket with edge wear and some closed tears and small chips, price clipped else very good in like jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 317 pages. Small octavo (7 1/2"" x 5 1/4") bound in original publisher's pictorial blue cloth with black lettering to spine and cover in pictorial jacket. First British edition. Mark of the Paw is a 1933 thriller novel by Gavin Holt (the pseudonym of Australian author Percival Charles Rodda). It is part of the Luther Bastion series, which features the professor in a series of mystery stories. The book was published by Hodder & Stoughton and is considered a work of Golden Age detection. Condition: Small paper sticker to back board. Edgewear to jacket, no price either on spine or flap and smaller than volume; ownership marks else very good in like jacket.

Hardcover. First Edition. London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1931 [first edition]. Octavo, 320 pages. Cloth very lightly marked and slightly rubbed and bumped at the extremities; edges and a few leading margins slightly marked; endpapers offset; top margin slightly cockled throughout (a little more pronounced in the first third of the book); overall still a better-than-good copy. Inscribed 'To Aunt Rick, with love, Perce. Leaden Roding, 15 Jan. 1932' (from the South Australian-born author Percival Charles Rodda, to relatives in Adelaide). A Professor Bastion mystery thriller (with a visit to Australia in passing); the author's eighth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym (Loder).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London, Hodder & Stoughton Limited, 1933 [first edition]. Octavo, 317 pages. Pictorial cloth a little marked and sunned, and slightly bumped at the corners; a very good copy. A Professor Bastion mystery thriller; Percival Charles Rodda's twelfth book under the Gavin Holt pseudonym (Loder). The front free endpaper is inscribed 'To Aunt Rick and Ken, with love, Perce. Leaden Roding, 5th May, 1933' (from the South Australian-born author to relatives in Adelaide). Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6. "Drums beat at nightand Professor Bastion hears the echo on Hampstead Heath" (jacket blurb) Contemporary ink name to front free endpaper; cloth very good; jacket a little chipped at spine ends with a couple of minor, light creases, otherwise very good. Book.

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6. Jacket a little rubbed and chipped, but overall VG. "Drums beat at night.and Professor Bastion hears the echo on Hampstead Heath" (jacket). Book.

Condition: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6. A little light spotting to prelims; cloth VG+; some minor chipping and small closed tears to jacket edges, but overall VG. An very good first edition of one of Holt's best books. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Jacket design by Thompson. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth. Dust-jacket. Nice jacket artwork on this title from Holt's series featuring Professor Luther Bastion, an astute and unorthodox detective. A little light foxing; cloth very good; jacket a little rubbed and chipped, small section of loss to head of spine. Book.

312 pp, edges foxed, d/j spine marked and discoloured, else very good copy in like, illustrated d/j. Inscribed and signed by Australian author, Gavin Holt, on front end-paper: "To Leonard Cutts, in friendship and grateful appreciation of the good work done for this book, Gavin Holt, London, 1934." Great dustjacket illustration featuring giant skeleton dressed in long coat and top hat, looming over sillhouettes of theatre-going patrons. First U.S. edition.