Gamble Death by Simons Roger (5 results)

Condition: Good. 1961. No Edition Remarks. 222 pages. Illustrated jacket over cream cloth. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Pencil inscriptions to front endpaper. Bookseller's sticker to front pastedown. Text block edges intensely foxed. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and minor bumping to spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Unclipped jacket has some edgewear with chips, tears and creasing. Jacket is slightly rubbed and marked overall. Jacket is in a transparent sleeve.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. DJ spine has a chip to front edge, touching the author's name, and a smaller chip to the top end. DJ has some very slight wear to the extremities, very slight rubbing, and is now in a mylar cover.

Condition: Fair. 1961. First Edition. 221 pages. This is an ex-Library book. Green pictorial dust jacket over green cloth. Library copy, with expected inserts, stamps and inscriptions. Pages are moderately tanned at the edges, with notable foxing. Binding has remained firm. Pen scribbles to page 220 and rear endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf with bumping to corners. Spine ends are notably crushed with considerable tanning. The unclipped dust jacket has moderate edge wear, tears and chips to edges and spine ends. Light tanning to spine and edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. A UK first edition, first impression. The Wrapper : The wrapper on this copy is bright, unfaded and complete. It is unclipped. It is scuffed at the spine ends and there is a small closed tear running down from the top spine corner on the front panel. Looks very sharp. The Book : The book is square and tight. There are no previous ownership inscriptions - the number 62 is written in pen on the ffep. The boards are clean and unfaded, the corners sharp. The spine ends are gently bruised. The pages are clean. The closed page edges are slightly toned and dusty. No dog-eared pages. The binding is tight - no cracked hinges. A decent copy in a protected wrapper. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. A little age-toning at the spine ends, very good plus in modestly rubbed, very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown. Inspector Wase mystery. Scarce.