Delayed Action by Nigel Tranter (9 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Book condition: good. Dust jacket condition: good. 1st printing, 1st edition. Spine faded with slight color loss. Dust jacket worn at edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Orange cloth with title in black on spine; pages clean; inscription to inside board; price unclipped 5/- net; horizontal fold to lower rear dj; photographs available on request.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Unclipped dustwrapper is in bad shape, being torn in two at the left-hand side of the spine, and with the top two inches and bottom inch missing at the spine, and also creasing and other small tears to the edges. Some wear to bottom end of spine and lower corners of orange boards, boards are a bit bowed (bent, but not creased), and the book smells a bit of being shut away in a cupboard or similar, but that should fade. But otherwise a not too bad, tight copy of this early novel by the author. NOT one of his historical tales, but a story involving Nazi agents in the Scottish Borders during WW2 . Originally published in 1944, this is the fourth reprint from 1948. 223pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardback first edition in near fine condition, red cloth boards, in very good protected unclipped dust jacket, gift inscription in French on front free end paper dated 19/07/1944/ (Book ref. 9056).

Orange Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No dj. 5th printing. Binding sound, text clean and free of marking. Minor dusky marks and a wrinkle or two to cloth, minimal shelf rubbing. No DJ Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint Edition. Delayed Action by Nigel G. Tranter (A Hubin Listed Mystery) File Copy Leaned. A few small grey spots to top edge. "Archive Copy" stamped to title page. Rubbed jacket edges. Not price-clipped. Some dust-soiling. Brodart cover. Reprinted 1944. (First published 1944). A Hubin listed Mystery. BOOK.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. 1st UK, 4th impression. Set in the rural Scottish Borders, a no-nonsense war-time mystery. Book is very good with only very little discolouration to text block edges; no marks or inscriptions. Well-illustrated jacket is very good with a little loss to spine top but remarkably complete. Comes with ephemera of 2007 receipt from Tranter Books, Cumbria (no relation known).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Owner's signature erased from front endpaper. Some foxing. 2" chip at corner of dust wrapper. 1" missing at head of dust wrapper spine. Dust wrapper is price-clipped.; Fifth printing (the first printing was in 1944). 223 pages. Orange boards with black lettering on spine. "It is a far cry from the plains and morasses of Eastern Europe to the green rounded hills of the Scottish Border [.]" - from dust wrapper blurb.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

Book Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Ward Lock, 1944. 1st Edition . Very Good/Fair. pp223. Octavo. Red cloth binding in torn DW (long torn, missing corner as cloth beneath has bleached). Cover illustration shows foraged capped soldier with Sten gun waiting for lorry driving to big house. Christmas gift inscription on SEP.