Killer Conquest by Berkeley Gray (17 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good to Very Good. A good to very good paperback. Small piece missing at spine bottom. Nice clean cover. Copyright 1949. White Circle # CD 383.

Soft cover. Condition: GOOD+. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing.. 192 pages. *** " Norman Conquest - killer! The fact that the deceased is a double-dyed skunk does not make Conquest's position any less precarious.The Gay Desperado has been in many a tight corner before, but never one quite so tight as this.It takes all the efforts of his pretty young wife, Pixie, aided by Superintendent Williams - Sweet Williams to you - to hoist him out the soup.A miniature earthquake in Mayfair involving the sticky end of Double-Dyed Skunk No.2 and lots of high-pressure action lead to the breathless sort of climax for which Mr. Gray is justly popular. " >>Creasing to covers; 1/2 " paper tear to front cover at paper spine; 1" x 1/4" piece missing from left edge of backcover; minor backcover staining; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Line Drawn Cover Art. (illustrator). Book.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. 2/- small format reprint from 1951 of a thriller published for the first time in 1947. Light rubbing to boards at top and bottom of the spine and at the corners with a small dark mark on the rear panel. The page edges are browned. Original owner's name and date at the top corner of the title page. The pages are browned but otherwise clean and unmarked. The jacket has light edge rubbing only.…

Paperback. Condition: Good- Very Good. 1st Printing. Solid with a two inch corner crease on the front cover, color fading on the spine, and the covers show light wear. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page.

Hardcover. Condition: Poor. No Jacket. Reissue. 192pp. Hard blue cover, a little damaged, pages slighlty yellow, but still makes a good read. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. pp.192, blue boards, gilt Edged of page block and page margins yellowed. Good in a good protected dustjacket with wear to edges and corners and chips to bottom front spine corner.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Hardback. With dust jacket. Slightly warped copy.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Blue boards, slight wear to corners, unmarked internally. Dust jacket is unclipped and unfaded, small chip to top edge, light wear to corners, protected in a removable clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. …

8vo. 192pp. Original purple boards in slightly chipped dustwrapper. Slight offsetting on free endpages and previous owner's sticker on front free endpaper. A very good copy. First edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A very good copy ion its original dust wrapper. 192 tanned pages with scattered foxing throughout. no inscriptions or loss. Outer maroon boards are unmarked and universal in colour throughout. The dust jacket has a small loss at the base of the spine and a chip at the top.Covers a bit dusty .Includes the business card of Anthony Lejeune loosely laid in.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Ownwer's name ? etc stamped in red onseveral pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Thus. 1951 edition (first published in 1947). Blue covers; previous owner's name on the title page, natural browning of the paper. The dust jacket has wear at the extremities, protected by a clear, removable cover. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. An about Fine copy of the first edition in a Very Good++ dust jacket, with a tiny chip and closed tear at top of spine; nevertheless, a lovely jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo. Purple cloth with silver lettering. Bump to the spine foot, ink name and date to the front endpaper and the text block edges lightly foxed. Dust jacket a little darkened and scuffed around the edges and rear panel, chipped at the bottom corners, with light chipping to the spine ends.…

1st ed. Dust jacket not price-clipped but slightly worn at edges with tiny loss at top corner of front panel. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Four volumes from Berkeley Gray's Norman Conquest series. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Four works from Berkeley Gray's crime fiction series featuring Norman Conquest, including a first edition of Duel Murder. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Edwy Searles Brooks was a popular crime writer in the early twentieth century, writing under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. The series was published between 1938 and 1969 and follow the 'breakneck sleuthing' of Norman Conquest. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, found in the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, generally smart, with just some light rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Duel Murder is more worn than the other volumes, with some moderate bumping and light rubbing to the boards, a little loss of wrap to the head and tail of the spine, and a two-inch closed tear to the wrap at the rear board. The wraps to the remaining volumes are lightly rubbed with some handling marks. The front hinge of The Conquest Touch is starting, but firm. Internally, firmly bound. The pages of Duel Murder are rather age-toned but otherwise pages are generally bright and clean across the collection. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…