Conquest Touch by Gray Berkeley (18 results)

hardcover. First Edition. VG+ in VG Dust Jacket missing a couple of very small chips. Features Simon Templar - like Norman Conquest. No U.S.edition.

Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content has age toned pages. Good DJ with some chips/tears and toning.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Clean hardback bound in maroon cloth with silver titles, cloth marked, binding pulled at back board, no inscriptions. 192 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Fair condition hard cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the fifteenth novel in the "Norman Conquest" series. Light edgewear. No price on the front inside panel indicating this edition was printed for the Canadian market. In very good / very good condition.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Second small format cheaper edition of a novel first published in 1948. The blue boards have a little edge rubbing and light corner bumping with some fading to the lettering on the spine. Pages fairly heavily browned as is usually the case with these cheap editions but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has light edge chipping and a date stamped on the rear panel. It has also been folded so that a small part of the rear panel can be seen on the spine which is a little faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Jacket chipped at head of spine and several small creases along top edge. Copy has previous owner's address label on FFE. Contents clean.

hardcover. Condition: Good. A hardback volume in Good condition, noticeable tanning to page margins, in a dustjacket with wear and tear to all edges, a little grubby at rear. This book is in stock now, in our UK premises. Photos of our books are available on request (dustjacket and cover illustrations vary, and unless the image accompanying the listing is marked 'Bookseller Image', it is an Abebooks Stock Image, NOT our own). BUYERS OUTSIDE UK please also note the following: 1. shipping rates apply to packets of 750g and under, and should the packed weight of an item exceed this we reserve the right to ship via 'Economy', or request extra postage prior to fulfilling the order, or cancel 2. many countries apply import or other taxes - these are the buyers responsibility; we may ask for extra payment to cover any taxes which we have to pay 'up front' on the buyer's behalf.

Tanning to page edges; otherwise a very good unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hard cover blue bds gilt lettering to spine, Good, scuffs at extrem.s, in dust wrapper, minor edgewear, closed tear from corner, taping inside at top of spine, title at spine a bit wonky as a result, small pieces missing at spine ends and corners, priced at 2/- on front, book a little skewed, contents clean and tight, pges lightly tanned, hinge pulling at front and cracked but holding at rear, pp192.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Purple boards with silver spine lettering. Very near fine copy, with ink name and date to the front endpaper. Dust jacket with creasing and rubbing along the flap folds, corners with light chips and lots of small nicks around the edges and spine ends, with a few short tears, one about 4 cm in length to the bottom edge of the front cover.

Small 8vo. 192pp. Novel. Attractive llustrated colour jacket showing man with head in noose. very good/very good.

Fifteenth thriller featuring Berkeley Gray's hero Norman Conquest, who was known as 'a gay desperado'! Pp.192, pages tanned. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine slightly dulled, wear to spine edge, a couple of dark spots to front. Good.** "Edwy Searles Brooks (11 November 1889 2 December 1965) was a British novelist who also wrote under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. Brooks was born in Hackney, London. He is believed to have written around 40 million words. (wiki).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 8vo. 192pp. edges browned and foxing to top edge, light uniform browning to all pages, very good in original blue cloth effect paper covered boards, gilt title, bright light shelf wear, very good in unclipped original dustwrapper, clightly chipped and rubbed top and bottom, grubby rear, colours bright with slight fade to spine, very good in protective cello wrapper Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VG book in G+ jacket. DJ has creasing and edge wear, closed tears. Internally v clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A near fine copy , inscribed and signed by the author onto the ffep. 192 pages . No loss or tears or foxing. Dated 1948 on the copyright page. First UK edition. Outer maroon boards with silver lettering to the spine is unmarked and universal in colour throughout. The dust jacket is complete with no faults.Shows a price of 8s 6d net on the front flap. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book is Very Good++, just a trifle bumped at the base of the spine, in a VG dust jacket. There is wear at top of jacket spine, with small chips, and the rear panel has a few creases. Lovely illustration on front panel, this title is scarce in dust jacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. None (illustrator). Four volumes from Berkeley Gray's Norman Conquest series. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Four works from Berkeley Gray's crime fiction series featuring Norman Conquest, including a first edition of Duel Murder. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Edwy Searles Brooks was a popular crime writer in the early twentieth century, writing under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. The series was published between 1938 and 1969 and follow the 'breakneck sleuthing' of Norman Conquest. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, found in the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, generally smart, with just some light rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Duel Murder is more worn than the other volumes, with some moderate bumping and light rubbing to the boards, a little loss of wrap to the head and tail of the spine, and a two-inch closed tear to the wrap at the rear board. The wraps to the remaining volumes are lightly rubbed with some handling marks. The front hinge of The Conquest Touch is starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. The pages of Duel Murder are rather age-toned but otherwise pages are generally bright and clean across the collection. Very Good. book.