Complete Murder Sampler by James Nelson (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. good copy of the 1946 edition. solid binding. some light rubbing and soiling on covers. pages clean and unmarked. 368 pages.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. In protective mylar cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Gently bumped at the corners and spine ends, cloth a bit soiled, about near fine, lacking the dust jacket.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. Book Club edition. (mystery, detective, fiction).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. No Jacket. First Edition. Lots of great mystery authors in this collection: Chandler, Lovecraft, Maugham, Charteris, etc. A crisp, solid, clean, unmarked copy that is missing first and last endpapers.

Hardcover. first edition hardcover. 1950, corner chips, fine in near fine dust jacket , 15 stories, one lovecraft.

Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair +. First Edition. PRICE NOT CLIPPED. dj worn to extremities and has tears around the corners & top & bottom of spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition stated .Very good book in a very good dustjacket with moderate wear at the extremities and some small closed tears .The dust jacket is price clipped with some sunning of the spine. An assortment of sixteen pieces which cover all the main varieties of mystery fiction. The list of stories are in the seller images.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. The dust jacket has a few short tears at the edge. It is also chipped and has some minor marks. It will still look good with cellophane though. The boards are in a very good condition. There is a previous owner's inscription on the front end page. Internally clean and tightly bound. Complete with 336 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG copy of a used book. Red HB covers in col pict d/w.336 pps, No inscriptions or other faults. D/w v/g with very small amount of rubbing on edges.This books contains a collection of 15 stories by contributors such as Lovecraft, Charteris, Wallace, Maugham,Household, Freemanand others Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Nelson, James, editor. The complete murder sampler. First edition. London: Macdonald & Co. Ltd., 1950. Hardback, Good, no dustjacket. Red cloth, sunned to spine, with a few small marks. Binding strong. xiv, 336pp., contents clean and bright. Contains stories by, among others, Charteris, Jacobs, Buchan, Lovecraft, Edgar Wallace and others. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Octavo, 368 pages, cloth; dj nicked, short tears, old cello tape inside at head of spine, NOT price-clipped, Quite Uncommon "This is a sampler done in careful cross-stitch - murder picked out in scarlet thread; death, in black. The marking out of differences is, in fact, the book's purpose. . The kinds of murder are as varied as the weapons of homicide. Some crime stories are complex intellectual puzzles, and some are fluff. Some are without murder and detective. Others are tales of the supernatural or narratives of real-life villainy." - Introduction. [This anthology unknown to Bruccoli's RAYMOND CHANDLER BIBLIOGRAPHY].

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Very good+ copy in a priceclipped, otherwise good dj. (Spine on dj. discolored, but still readable. 2"-inch tear at head of front cover of dj. Shallow chipping at spine ends on dj. Some chips at edges of dj.) First hardcover printing of Raymond Chandler's "Trouble Is My Business.".

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. None (illustrator). The first UK edition of James Nelson's collected murder mystery stories from a variety of authors, including Leslie Charteris and W. Somerset Maugham. The first UK edition, with the first US edition being published in 1946. This intriguing collection of short stories presents fifteen murder mystery tales from fifteen prominent authors of the detective and crime fiction. Edited by James Nelson, this sampler aims to cover the main varieties of mystery story-telling. At the time of initial publication, historian of detective fiction Mr Howard Haycraft labelled the collection as "an appetising and well-planned refresher course in the enjoyment of crime". With stories by distinguished authors including W. Somerset Maugham, G. K. Chesterton, H. P. Lovelace, John Buchan, and many more. Bound in the publisher's original cloth, with the original, price-clipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with the odd mark to the cloth. Dust wrapper is very smart, with edge wear and the odd closed tear. Sunning to the spine of the wrap and light marking to the rear. Internally, firmly bound with bright, clean pages. Near Fine. book.