Vickers Roy Sefton Kyle (9 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. A man in prison for a crime he did not commit escapes for forty eight hours to bring his persecutors to justice. Vickers' first novel under the Kyle pseudonym, introducing Inspector Rason. Second impression. Red boards with black imprint lightly bumped and rubbed with a bit of fraying to the corners and spine ends. Four inch tear down the upper rear spine fold and a half inch nick to the spine. Front hinge cracked, foxing to the end papers and edges of the text block.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 254, [2]. Orange cloth boards with black lettering. Text-block yellowed, two very small stains to the sunned spine, but otherwise a pretty fresh copy. Without the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First printing. Ex-library with the usual markings, spine cocked, cloth soiled, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper. Scarce title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Bookplate of Adrian Homer Goldstone on front pastedown. Foxing to foredge and endpapers, corners a little bumped, a very good copy without dustwrapper. Scarce title, and the author's first book using this pseudonym.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Probably an ex-private library copy with evidence of jacket flaps removed from pastedowns, and an ink price on front fly, some stains on the front board, a good only copy without dustwrapper. A very scarce title.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Gently bumped and rubbed with a touch of wear at the corners and spine ends. Spine cocked and a bit darkened. Light foxing to the edges of the text block and end papers. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket artwork by Vernon Soper. (illustrator). First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. A crime thriller about a man wrongfully convicted who escapes custody to seek justice against those who framed him - a gripping moral and suspense tale. Cloth slightly bumped at spine ends and edges; jacket with some wear, notably around spine. Book.

First edition; 8vo; light spotting to prelims, light partial toning to half-title, some splitting at foot of gutter; publisher's orange cloth, titles to spine and covers black, front hinge split, spine faded, edges spotted, with the original dust-jacket, later issue with '3/6' price sticker on spine, rubbed and somewhat soiled, chips and creasing along edges, some textual loss to title on spine, splits and tears repaired on verso, else very good. First edition of this mystery novel.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A scarce first edition of this mystery novel, written by Roy Vickers, under his pseudonym Sefton Kyle. Scarce. With publisher's advertisements to the rear of the work. The first edition, first impression, in a later state dust wrapper, with 3'- to the spine. The first state has 8/3 to the spine. All states of the dust wrapper are very scarce, particularly in such good condition. The Sefton Over Fairholme is a mystery novel by Roy Vickers, printed under the pseudonym Sefton Kyle. The work tells the story of a happy family torn apart by a murder. The novel is credited for its realistic depictions of grief and trauma. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with minor fading to the extremities. Offsetting to spine from dust wrapper. Booksellers label to front pastedown and ink inscription to front free endpaper. Dust wrapper is smart with chipping and the occasional closed tear to the extremities. Neat tape reinforcement to the reverse. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with the odd spot to the fore edge. Very Good Indeed. book.