Sayers Dorothy Editor (74 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good-. Second Printing. Spine creased, slightly slanted, a little edge wear and rubbing, some tanning. A nice copy. ; Compiled by and with an introduction by James Sandoe. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 487 pages; " All of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories are here in a single volume, including the one about Harriet, Peter, and their three sons! . " This edition contains the essay 'Sayers, Lord Peter, and God' by Carolyn Heilbrun and E. C. Bentley's parody 'Greedy Night.' ". Illustrated by Michal, Marie (Cover) (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: New. First Edition. Edited by Ralph E. Hone and with preface by Barbara Reynolds. Illustrated by Norah Lambourne. White glossy boards with text in orange and black. In the lower center there is an artistic rendering of a street scene. 165 pp. plus index. New condition. It is difficult to write a summary paragraph about Sayers. She is most famous for her detective novels featuring Lord Peter Wimsey as the detective. Early in her career she worked for an advertising agency writing promotional material. Later in life she did not just write detective novels, she wrote plays, essays, theology and poetry. Late in life, after influence from Charles Williams, she translated Dante's Inferno. She and C. S. Lewis had a fine friendship which was full of mutual respect. It is not just the quality of her writing that makes her stand out, it is the quality of her thinking. The Dorothy L. Sayers Society keeps alive her memory and encourages superior scholarship. Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & the Inklings.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Seventh Printing. Spine slightly slanted, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; Compiled by and with an introduction by James Sandoe. ; Lord Peter Wimsey; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 487 pages; " All of the Lord Peter Wimsey stories are here in a single volume, including the one about Harriet, Peter, and their three sons! . " This edition contains the essay 'Sayers, Lord Peter, and God' by Carolyn Heilbrun and E. C. Bentley's parody 'Greedy Night.' ". Illustrated by Michal, Marie (Cover) (illustrator).…

paperback. Condition: Acceptable. Stains to cover, page edges, and/or pages inside. Please see the condition note after this for details, if this is missing please consider Acceptable to mean poor quality that could include major staining, water damage, writing, missing dustjacket, etc etc. Our books are dispatched from a Yorkshire former cotton mill. We list via barcode/ISBN so please note that the images are stock images and may not be the exact copy you receive, furthermore the details about edition and year might not be accurate as many publishers reuse the same ISBN for multiple editions and as we simply scan a barcode or enter an ISBN we do not check the validity of the edition data when listing. If you're looking for an exact edition please don't order (at least not without checking with us first, although we don't always have time to check). We aim to dispatch prompty, the service used will depend on order value and book size. We can ship to most countries, see our shipping policies. Payment is via Abe only.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. (vii) 272 pp. Red boards lettered in white on the spine; dark blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; small ink mark on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Eyvind Earle. This anthology contains: A Visit to the Bank by Shirley Jackson; A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes by Georges Simenon; The Gift by Ray Bradbury; The Loaf Sweeper by Muriel Spark; A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country by Laurie Lee; The Ghost Ships by Angela Carter; A Christmas Party and a Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; St. Anthony and His Pig by Paul Arene; Boys by Anton Chekhov; Midnight Mass by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki; The Legend of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof; A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry; Noel by Irene Nemirovsky; Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; One Christmas Eve by Langston Hughes; The Christmas Turkey by Mario de Andrade; Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen; Christmas Morning by Frank O' Connor; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; The Cat on teh Dovrefjell by Peter Christen Asbjornson and Jorgen Moe; The Loan by Wolfdietrich Schnurre; Christmas Eve by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen; The Loudest voice by Grace Paley; Santa's Children by Italo Calvino; Christmas by Tove Jansson; Just Becauise of Xmas by Cyprian Ekwensi; and Noel, Texas, 1956 by Lucia Berlin. Size: 8vo. Eyvind Earle; (illustrator). Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. 1st Edition. (vii) 272 pp. Red boards lettered in white on the spine; dark blue endpapers; headband; ribbon marker. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; two small ink marks on the lower edge of the text block; no interior markings. Dustjacket art by Eyvind Earle. This anthology contains: A Visit to the Bank by Shirley Jackson; A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas; The Little Restaurant Near Place des Ternes by Georges Simenon; The Gift by Ray Bradbury; The Loaf Sweeper by Muriel Spark; A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote; A Cold Christmas Walk in the Country by Laurie Lee; The Ghost Ships by Angela Carter; A Christmas Party and a Wedding by Fyodor Dostoyevsky; St. Anthony and His Pig by Paul Arene; Boys by Anton Chekhov; Midnight Mass by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis; Reginald's Christmas Revel by Saki; The Legend of the Christmas Rose by Selma Lagerlof; A Chaparral Christmas Gift by O. Henry; Noel by Irene Nemirovsky; Dancing Dan's Christmas by Damon Runyon; The Necklace of Pearls by Dorothy L. Sayers; One Christmas Eve by Langston Hughes; The Christmas Turkey by Mario de Andrade; Green Holly by Elizabeth Bowen; Christmas Morning by Frank O' Connor; The Fir Tree by Hans Christian Andersen; The Cat on teh Dovrefjell by Peter Christen Asbjornson and Jorgen Moe; The Loan by Wolfdietrich Schnurre; Christmas Eve by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen; The Loudest voice by Grace Paley; Santa's Children by Italo Calvino; Christmas by Tove Jansson; Just Becauise of Xmas by Cyprian Ekwensi; and Noel, Texas, 1956 by Lucia Berlin. Size: 8vo. Eyvind Earle; (illustrator). Book.…

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Prtg. 1st printing. A near fine copy of the trade paperback. A unique collection of mystery stories featuring women detectives, all written by women. Includes some of the best fiction by such writers, including Amanda Cross, Ruth Rendell, Gladys Mitchell, Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky, Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie, Antonia Fraser. Seventeen stories. 274 pages. Trade Paperback. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo, 8 1/2" tall, 381 pages, gray quarter-cloth. A very good, clean hardcover with minor shelf wear; hinges and binding tight, paper slightly yellowed, slight soiling to the fore-edges. In a good, edge worn dust jacket, with small chips at the flap fold edges and back strip top and bottom, with original price present. A very nice reading copy. …

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Dust Jacket. 206 pages, Clean text. Green and white covers are creased, edge tears at the spine, contents page has tears. First published 1957; Reprinted 1959, 1960. Introduction, Nine chapters, A Note On Costume, The Song of Roland, Not on Laisse 50; Penguin Classics, L75. …

Cloth. Condition: Good in Very Good DJ. Second printing. 8vo,301 pp. Foxing to covers, page edges, endpapers, and first few leaves; light edgewear to jacket.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (Crime, Mystery, Anthologies) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Trade paperback format. Light edge and corner wear with a crease on the front hinge and an uncreased spine and some minor rubbing on the upper left corner and a short crease on the lower right of the front cover; no interior markings. This collection contains: ONE: Misapplied Ingenuity of a Bigamist: The Rouse Case by F. A. Beaumont; Man Hunters: The German Rouse Cases by F. A. Beaumont; The Otterburn Mystery by Val Gielgud; The Murder of Julia Wallace by Dorothy L. Sayers; The Vera Page Case by George Cornish; Winnie Ruth Judd by Geoffrey Homes; How We Trapped Capone by Frank J. Wilson; The Ma Barker Gang by J. Edgar Hoover; Crime of the African Crater by Benjamin Bennett; Samuel Furnace: History's Greatest Manhunt by Roland Wild; Georges Sarret: The Acid Bath Killer by Roland Wild; The Cleveland Torso Killer by Damon Wilson; The Rattlesnake Murder by Eugene D. Williams; Jerome Braun von Selz: The Laughing Killer by Allan R. Bosworth; An Axe for Frau Marek by Ignatz Peters; A Mixed Bag: Sylvestre Matuska, The Man Who Loved Trains, The Lindbergh Kidnapping, The Case of Jennie Donald, The Ronald Case, The Nancy Titterton Case, and The Mona Tinsley Case by Colin Wilson. TWO: By the Light of the Moon by Edward Radin; Gordon Cummins: The Blackout Ripper by Fred Cherrill; The Man Who Wanted Voices by John Godwin; I Always Wanted to Torture a Girl by George Vedder Jones; Harry Dobkin: The Skeleton in the Cellar by Keith Simpson; The Wigwam Murder by Molly Lefebure; The Heirens Case by Colin Wilson and William Heirens; Neville Heath: The Sadist by Percy Hoskins; The Porthole Murder by Dennis Hocking; Marcel Petiot: Murder for Profit by Alister Kershaw; The Black Dahlia by David Rowan; John Haigh: The Vampire Murderer by Colin Wilson; The Lonely Hearts Murders by Colin Wilson; The Cleft Chin Murder by Edgar Lustgarten; The Blackburn Child Murder by Tony Fletcher; Howard Unruh: The First of the Crazy Gunmen by Brad Steiger; and A Mixed Bag: The Assassination of Leon Trotsky, Bruno Ludke, The Texarkana Moonlight Murderer, Ley and Smith, The Lower Quinton Witchcraft Murder, and Charles Floyd by Colin Wilson. Size: 8vo. Book.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 288 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.67 inches. In Stock.

Soft Cover. Condition: Used-Acceptable. Volume 51, No. 2, February 1968. 162 pp. Volume 51, No. 2, February 1968 only! A perfectly acceptable reading copy. Moderate foxing on page edges. Minimally brittle pages. Damage to top edge of front cover.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Selections from "The Omnibus of Crime" - classic tales of murder and mayhem, Book has creasing near the spine but no corner creasing.

Condition: Very Good. 1st Printing. Square solid copy with a thin reading crease along spine on front cover, a 2.5" corner crease on back, a small pen scribble on front cover, and covers show light wear from rubbing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Cover with light wear and bumps, notably to spine ends. Pages with light wear and toning but otherwise clean and intact throughout. Please see image. 352 pages. Reissue with blue cloth pictorial cover (no DJ) - date uncertain as only has the original 1940 copyright date and is published by Harper & Row rather than Harper & Brothers.…

Paperback. Condition: near very good paperback. not 1st printing. Tales from the witching hour of madness and murder and the evils that are spoken of only in whispers.

Paperback. Condition: near fine paperback. 2nd printing. Tales from the witching hour.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 164 pages. Illustrated. London Books Fairs, Dorothy L Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey, Forrest Reid, Kenneth Baker interview, Patricia Lynch - Irish children's author, Bob Hope, H E Bates.

Condition: Good. MacFadden Books 1963.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First paperback edition, first printing. Macfadden book number 50-170 with 50¢ cover price. [Early 1960's] An anthology collecting eleven stories by Charles Allston Collins, H.H. Munro, Arthur Machen, W.W. Jacobs, E.F. Benson, W.F. Harvey, and others. A tight, very good copy. Book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Black cloth binding. Red print on spine. Binding appears to have been wetted and has stain marks. Corners are very lightly bumped. Light crushing on top of spine, very light crushing on bottom. Sound and unmarked. 1177 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. None. First Edition. Includes "Incunabulum." A clean, unmarked, tight copy of this legendary quarterly of Sherlockiana.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 113 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Strong, square binding. Very slight wear. Previous owner's inscription on the ffep. The pages are toned but not brittle, ie. War Time Paper. Dust jacket (in mylar sleeve) is chipped at the spine tips and there is foxing on the back cover. Hard to find in dust jacket. …

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 241 pages. 8.00x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Book Club Edition. Green cloth decorated in gilt and black on the front panel and spine; black endpapers; black upper edge. Light wear on the dustjacket; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Jesting Pilot by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore); The Queen of Spades by Alexander Pushkin; A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce; Prisoner of the Sand by Antoine de Saint Exupery; The End of the Party by Graham Greene; A Piece of Steak by Jack London; The Adventure of Clapham Cook by Agatha Christie; The Last Night of the World by Ray Bradbury; They by Rudyard Kipling; How the Bridadier Lost His Ear by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Dry September by William Faulkner; The Sixth Capsule, or Proof by Circumstantial Evidence by Edmund Pearson; Fool's Mate by Stanley Ellin; The Axeman Wore Wings by Robert Tallant; Stone from the Stars by Valentina Zhuravleva; Billy: The Seal Mission by Stewart Alsop and Thomas Braden;Tea Party by Harold Pinter; Death Draws a Triangle by Edward Hale Bierstadt; The Net by Robert M. Coates; The Last Inhabitant of the Tuileries by Andre Castelot; Shattering the Myth of John Wilkes Booth's Escape by William G. Shepherd; The Game of Murder by Gerd Gaiser; On the Killing of Eratosthenes the Seducer by Kathleen Freeman; The Chair by John Bartlow Martin; Old Fags by Stacy Aumonier; Dead Men Working in Cane Fields by William Seabrook; Rattenbury and Stone by T. Tennyson Jesse; Sing a Song of Sixpence by John Buchan; The Murder in Le Mans by Janet Flanner; Sleeping Beauty by John Collier; The Shadow of the Shark by G. K. Chesterton; A Small Buried Treasure by John Fischer; The Horla by Guy de Maupassant; and Scrawns by Dorothy L. Sayers. Size: 8vo. Book.…