In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Stories by Dorothy L Sayers (31 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good+. #335, First Printing. 225pp. Light wear, small dampstain to to back corner. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Soft cover. Condition: Good / Very Good. Painted Front Cover (illustrator). First Edition By This Publisher,. 190 pages Cover depicts Skeleton with green cape looking from behind a curtain. >>> book is warped. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Used: Good. Cover art is different from what is pictured with this listing. A good softcover copy with tight and square binding. Softcovers (front cover has an illustration of a skeleton behind a curtain) are good. Text is clean but has mildly yellowed. Date is stamped on first front end paper. Previous owner's name plate is affixed to reverse side of front cover. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Condition: Good. 1940. 286 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Inscriptions to front pastedown and endpaper. Pages are lightly tanned and thumbed at the edges, with light foxing. Binding has remained firm. Boards are a little rub worn, slight shelf wear to corners, spine and edges. Corners are a little bumped. Spine ends are mildly crushed. Light tanning to spine and edges. Boards are bowed. Book has a forward lean.

Condition: Fair. 1948. Sixth Impression. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. More pronounced to endpapers and pastedowns. Pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have noticeable edge wear with corner bumping and rubbing to surfaces. Marked sunning to spine and edges with some crushing to ends. Water spotting to front board.

Condition: Good. 1941. Fifth Impression. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Condition: Good. 1948. Sixth impression. 178 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Minor inscriptions to front endpapers. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some moderate marking and tanning. Gilt lettering to spine is strongly dulled.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. Wear/marking to boards. No dust jacket. Foxing and tanning to pages and page edges, text is clear. Photograph available on request.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Photograph available on request.

Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition. First American edition. Original cloth, a few minor stains on front cover, near very good.,

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. First American Edition. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 311 pages; 1940 Harcourt, Brace & Company. HC 1st American edition. Snugly bound and clean in original blue cloth lettered in white. Cloth rubbed with trace fray at spine ends and corner tips. Contents bright and fresh; no marks. VG-.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Sixth Print overall (fourth print of first cheap edition). Hardback copy in dark blue boards with lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 178pp. Not library copy, name and date in ink to ffep, rubbing to rear board edge. (10/2).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo HB. pp; 286. Offsetting to half-title and final page. Lacking jacket. Toning to edges of text-block. Very Good in flecked green cloth, lettered black to spine, with a black publisher's 'ex-libris' stamp to the upper board. No evidence that this is anything other than a 1st / 1st. I haven't been able to find any reference to this binding for a 1st edition. Not a library bind, as there are no library markings at all. I've seen a US first of another Sayers title (Harcourt & Brace) with a similar binding in mustard cloth.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Some dull areas on the black cloth and book cocked. Occasional faint speckling.

Condition: Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, [1940]. First American Edition Stated. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth lettered in white; [6],311pp. Moderate wear and a few surface scratches to boards, spine cloth and endpapers toned, contemporary bookseller ticket of the Wold Book Shop in Oakland, CA, to rear pastedown; Very Good and sound.

London, Victor Gollancz, 1940, 2nd ed., 286 pag., original black cloth with spine lettered in red (without dustjacket). = Mild spotting on spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1940. In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A book of short stories including two Lord Peter Wimsey short stories. Blue cloth boards with light blue text on the front cover and spine. 311 pp. The dust wrapper has a background of wavy shades of blue and text in white and light blue. CONDITION: The book is VG with acid browning of end sheets and splotches of fading on the spine (which is covered by the dust wrapper.) The dust wrapper is VG with the white back showing some soiling and with modest edge wear, none of which is greater than a quarter inch deep. Additional photographs available upon request. Full refund if not satisfied. Shelley and Son Books specializes in C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien & the Inklings.

Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition. Octavo, original black cloth over boards, orange lettering on spine. Short story collection from English crime writer and poet Dorothy L. Sayers. Very Good, modest shelf wear, slightly cocked, spine cloth somewhat loose, corners and spine ends bumped, no dust jacket.

Hard. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Pages clean and bright, light foxing on endpapers, binding firm, light foxing to boards. Size: 8vo.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good (Plus). No Jacket. First Edition. A collection of stories: two featuring Peter Wimsey, five with Montague Egg, and ten others. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the First Edition. Black cloth binding with orange titling on the spine. Clean text; 286 pages. Mild bumping and a slight lean. Lacking a dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, first American book in very good dust jacket. Blue cloth covered boards with ivory lettering on front panel and spine. Upper page edges are lightly tinted. Boards are clean, extremities lightly faded. Light scuffs along edges at head and tail of board spine. Upper edge of front panel has a shallow bump near the center. Small hole (puncture?) toward tail of spine, approx. 1 1/4" from base. Minimal scuffs at fore-edge tips and elsewhere along board edges. External side and lower page edges are a bit age-toned. Mild shadow-transfers on end papers. Minimal age-toning to text pages, else very clean. No foxing. Text block is tight. Dust jacket has light scuffing overall. All fore-edge folds are scuffed but not rubbed through. Back jacket panel shows a bit grubby against the off-white background when compared to the inside flaps. Jacket spine is lightly sunned; tail of spine has similar small hole as the board spine. Front panel has several small shallow scrapes toward the lower half of the fore-edge fold. Upper edge and corners at head of jacket spine have several chips with adjacent creases and closed tears, with loss of up to 1/4" in several places. Upper right front fore-edge corner is rubbed and chipped with loss of approx. 1/4". Minimal rubs on the other three fore-edge corners. The upper right corner of the front inside flap has a 2" by 1 1/8" price clip; the other three inside flap corners have uniform clips of 3/4" by 1/2". Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada may require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher than the stated shipping costs. A signature upon receipt may also be required.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Octavo. Bound in black cloth with red lettering spine. A very good+ copy with owner inscription ffep, hinges repaired with binding still tight. 286 pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First US Edition. About Fine in about Fine price-clipt D.J. (H-226).

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. A little lightening to the front gutter, and some rubbing at the spine ends, very good or better in about very good dustwrapper with slight fading to the spine, some light nicking to the spine ends, and a small external repair on the rear panel. Two Peter Wimsey stories including the title story, five Montague Egg stories and eleven others. An increasingly scarce title.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 286pp. Black cloth lettered in orange at the spine. Top edge lightly spotted, with a tiny scattering more to the fore edge and to occasional margins throughout. Contemporary former owner name and date inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, toned at the spine panel with about a centimetre of loss which just impacts to spine lettering. Includes two Lord Peter Wimsey stories, five Mintague Egg stories, and ten further standalone tales.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A first edition copy of this popular collection of detective short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding, with the original, unclipped dust wrapper. A collection of detective short stories by Dorothy L. Sayers, including two stories featuring her popular character, 'Lord Peter Wimsey', and others featuring, 'Montague Egg'. The book's title is taken from the first story in the book, which unravels the murder case of a poisoned dentist. Dorothy L. Sayers was an English crime writer and poet best known for her mystery novels, and for her character, 'Lord Peter Wimsey'. She is considered one of the four, 'Queens of Crime', alongside Agatha Christie, Margery Allingham and Ngaio Marsh. The half title page is present. With the previous owner's gift inscription, dated 1939, to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent with light shelf wear to the edges. Light handling marks to the boards. The odd spot and handling mark to the paste-downs and free endpapers. Previous owner's gift inscription to the front free endpaper. The original, unclipped dust wrapper is in smart condition. Shelf wear and chipping to the edges with some loss to the spine. A closed tear of about 1.5 inches to the upper spine has been repaired with tape. Spine is darkened. Age-toning to the panels. Marks to the panels with ink marks on the rear panel. Internally, binding slightly strained towards the centre, but otherwise firmly bound. Pages age-toned but otherwise bright and clean with the odd spot throughout. Spotting to the fore-edge. Very Good Indeed. book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Plus. First Edition. Octavo. Pp. 286. Black black, red spine lettering, in dust jacket. Minor foxing to prelims and endpages, and fore- and top edges, tiny Toronto bookseller stamp at bottom of front free endpaper, else a nice, tight, square copy. Yellow dust jacket is soiled and browned, and with a couple of stains to rear panel, nicks at the tips, shallow closed tears at head of front panel, small shallow piece missing at head of spine extending slightly to rear panel (text not affected), shallow strip missing from tail of spine (text not affected). Overall, a very good copy in a good plus dust jacket.

First edition, first printing. Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1939. No dustwrapper. This is a very good copy. The boards are generally clean and straight, with some light bumping at the spine tips and corners. There is a neat previous owner's inscription to the front fly leaf, dated Christmas 1939. The internals are pristine and clean. The text blocks are generally bright and white and are free from foxing. Overall, this is a very good copy of a nice title with nice provenance.

First edition, first printing. Published by Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1939. No dustwrapper. This is a very good copy. The boards are generally clean and straight. There is a neat, well-illustrated Ex-Libris sticker to the front pastedown from Sir Oscar Morland, the British diplomat and ambassador to Tokyo. His signature is on the front flyleaf, dated 17 March 1940, Tokyo. The internals are slightly toned and there is an ex-library stamp also to the fly. The text blocks are generally bright and white and are free from foxing. Overall, this is a very good copy of a nice title with nice provenance.

FIRST EDITION, half-title lightly spotted, pp. 286, crown 8vo, original black cloth, backstrip lettered in orange, slight lean to spine, rubbed to extremities, textblock edges toned, a few faint spots to free endpapers, ownership inscriptions to flyleaf, one in pencil, the other in red ink (this also crossing through the earlier), good. The title-story and that following concerning Lord Peter Wimsey, proceeding to a few Montague Egg stories, then a miscellaneous section. (Gilbert A32a).