Ryan Nigel Translator (9 results)

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Ex-library copy of the first UK edition, translated by Nigel Ryan. The boards have small tape marks at the top and bottom of the front panel, slight fading to the edges and slight bumping to the corners. There is a spine lean. Page edges are browned. The endpapers are browned with heavy vertical tape marks to the front pastedown and front free endpaper. The front endpapers have also been reinforced along the hinge with white tape. Library stamps to the copyright page and a small circular library stamp to the last page of the text. Pages are browned with staining in a number of places through the book. Price clipped jacket has a tape mark along the right edge of the front inside flap, chipping to the bottom corners, some edge wear and fading to the rear panel. It has also had a thin piece snipped from the top of the front flap and has been blind stamped on the front panel by the Library. Cover design by David Knight. First printing. Knight, David (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Reprint. 157 pages. Standard paperback with some wear/small creases to corners, small frays to bottom spine-ends, surface marks to covers with discolouring to rear cover. Light reading creases to spine. Slight foxing to page-edges, pages clean and sound.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First Paperback Edition. Originally published in the UK by Collins in 1957 in this translation from the French by Nigel Ryan. This is the first UK paperback edition. Great Pan G287. The spine is rolled with reading creasing and edge rubbing. The front cover has light edge wear. The rear cover has browning and some discolouration. Page edges browned. Previous owner's name in pen to the first page where there is also a trace of price in pencil. The pages are browned but otherwise unmarked. First printing.…

First Edition. [Psychological thriller] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.191; [1], blank. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket designed by Youngman Carter, priced at 12/6. Contents and edges clean, lightly used jacket with neat tear at crown, spine gently toned. Near fine. A macabre tale in which malcontent Emile is planning to poison guests at his hotel high in the hills above Nice.…

First Edition. [Crime novel] FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.186. Publisher's red cloth, silver titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Robin Jacques, priced 11/6. Contents clean, discreet name beneath flap, a few light marks to endpapers, jacket is worn, with chip/loss to rear panel, some smaller chips, tears at joints. An uncommon title. Tropical intrigue set in the South Sea Islands, featuring an unlikely trio comprising a dapper English Major, a hardened gangster, and a mysterious stowaway.…

First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.157; [3], blank. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Fritz Wegner, clipped and repriced at 6s. Bookseller ticket to pastedown, ink names to free endpaper, a few marks to edges. Jacket rubbed to joints, some ships to extremities, sticker pulls to front panel. Good. Murder-mystery originally published in French in 1954, and first published in this translation in the UK in 1956. Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p167 (2002), Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & Detection, p363-5 (1976). Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99, 115. (1972).…

First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.157 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by P. Youngman Carter priced at 12/6s. Contents clean, edges spotted. no ink names, jacket with some chips and tears, sunned to spine as usual. A scarce title. Maigret is called upon to apprehend a young hoodlum who holds up a nightclub with a toy gun; the arrest of this would-be gangster leads the Inspector to the more serious crime of murder. First published in French in 1951. Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p167 (2002), Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & Detection, p363-5 (1976). Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99, 115. (1972).…

First Edition. [Detective Fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.168; [4], blank. Elegantly hand-bound in half navy blue calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, sewn endbands. Contents clean and fresh, exterior as new. An excellent copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Maigret has his wallet lifted while standing on the bus, and the petty crime leads him to a complex murder case. A scarce mid-period Maigret mystery. …

First Edition. [Detective fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.157 [3]. Publisher's red cloth with silver titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by P. Youngman Carter priced at 12/6s. Contents and edges clean, edges jacket lightly used with a few minor nicks to extremities, spine lettering a little sunned. Shows well. A scarce title. Maigret is called upon to apprehend a young hoodlum who holds up a nightclub with a toy gun; the arrest of this would-be gangster leads the Inspector to the more serious crime of murder. First published in French in 1951. Haining; The Classic Era of Crime Fiction p167 (2002), Steinbrunner & Penzler; Ency.of Mystery & Detection, p363-5 (1976). Eric Quayle; The Collectors Book of Detective Fiction p.99, 115. (1972).…