Ellerby Case by John Rhode (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. Reprint. Extremities lightly worn, boards darkened in spots, spine lettering dulled, else very good in publisher's blue cloth.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition. Lacks jacket. Deaccessioned copy of Auburn Circulating Library, with their name crossed out and remnants of a removed cover on endpapers. Edges and front/end matter foxed, rear endpaper excised causing cut to portion of final text page, ink name (Edith F. Dulles, of the Dulles/Lansing family) and portion of absent jacket on front endpaper. 1927 Hard Cover. 298 pp. The third book in the Dr. Lancelot Priestley series. A pseudonymous crime novel by Cecil John Charles Street, a British army major turned writer who became one of the most popular authors of the Golden Age of Crime. Sir Noel Ellerby is recalled by his butler to his Lincolnshire mansion, Laxford Hall, after thieves break-in. Oddly, nothing appears to have been stolen. The following morning Sir Noel is found lying dead before the open door of his safe. The physician called to examine the body declares that death was due to heart failure but Scotland Yard thinks differently. Stumped as to motive and manner of the crime, Inspector Hanslet engages the assistance of Sir Noel's old friend, Dr Lancelot Priestley, and that relentless interrogator loses no time in bringing into play his peculiar powers of logical scientific reasoning.…

Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Hardback. Octavo. 315pp. Original red cloth with black spine titles. Slight bump to top corner otherwise near very good indeed in a slightly rubbed and edge nicked, near very good indeed dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Author's third mystery book. Blue cloth cover is rubbed at corners and caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Former owner's bookplate affixed to front paste down. Small faint erasure to corner of front flyleaf. Pages are clean and and very good. Rare dust jacket is tattered and chipped at the extremities and toned with very modest soiling but in good condition. Publisher's price of $2.00 on DJ flap with clipped corners. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Early Reprint. The Ellerby Case by John Rhode Early Reprint Fourth Impression Geoffrey Bles 1935. A near fine book that has no inscriptions or previous signs of ownership. In pictorial near VG 'Abbey' designed dust jacket.

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1927, 315,(5) pag., original red cloth decorated in black (without dustjacket). = Published March 1927 a month after the first printing. Rare. Spine-corners rubbed/ worn.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in orange, orange topstain; [6],298pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, very slight spine lean, front hinge a bit loose but nowhere close to splitting, else a Very Good, quite attractive and sound copy. The third appearance of armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, preceded only by The Paddington Mystery (1925) and Dr. Priestley's Quest (1926). He eventually appeared in sixty-nine more titles over the course of the next 35 years.…

First edition, first printing, of the third book in the Dr Priestley series. Cecil John Charles Street published under the pseudonyms John Rhode and Miles Burton. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in orange, top edge orange, fore edge uncut. Spine cocked and toned, wear to extremities, one corner slightly bumped, top edge somewhat discoloured. A very good copy.…