Cottage Sinister by Patrick (7 results)

Mass market. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. The first Q. Patrick mystery, involving a number of poisonings in a small English village. Bumped with wear at the edges and a 2" drip mark to the rear board. Spine cocked and sunned, hinges a bit loose. Residue on the pastedowns where the jacket flaps had been glued, previous owner's name on the front end paper, dated Jan. 1933.

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 298. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1931 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 298.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Original dark red cross hatched patterned cloth, lettered in black to the front panel and spine. 8vo - 279 pp. Author's first book. The pen name Q. Patrick was used by several different authors throughout the 20th Century. As one individual either died or moved on, the mantle was picked up by another. The first book written under this structure, Cottage Sinister, was executed by Martha Mott Kelley and Richard Wilson Webb. This book is very clean, bright and solid. The dust jacket, with cover art by Guy Fry, shows some minor edge-wear to the corners and some minor chipping to the spine ends. A very nice copy. Near Fine / Good.

First edition. Octavo, pp. [i-iv] v [vi] 1-279 [280-282: blank], original brown and black patterned cloth. The author's first mystery novel and the first using this pseudonym. ".a well crafted novel about a series of poisonings in a small English village." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, p. 864. [Reference: Hubin, p. 629]. A touch of wear to spine ends and corner tips, a very good to nearly fine copy in a good dust jacket with rubbing and splits to the front flap fold, minor loss at corner tips, chipped and loss along head of spine panel affecting the authors name, wear with shallow loss at base of spine panel. Uncommon, especially in jacket. (24990).

Condition: Fair. Philadelphia: Roland Swain Company, 1931. 1st edition. 12mo. v,279pp. Fair book. No dust jacket, else Good. Spine slanted. Owner's name on front free endpage. (mystery stories) Inquire if you need further information.

Condition: Very Good. Roland Swain Philadelphia 1931 Binding: Hardcover In good+ condition, clean, tight and bright.