Plot Counterplot by Dennis Wheatley (7 results)

Condition: Good. 1st edition. Light wear to boards with fading. Content has even toning. No DJ.

Condition: Good. 1959. First Published. 336 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Pages 17-20 detached but present. Very light foxing and tanning to pages. Slightly more prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Some looseness to binding but pages other than aforementioned remain firmly attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier sunning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Black boards with white titles to spine. No Jacket. Binding split at front. Minor foxing to inside cover, small inscription. Slight tanning to page ends. Otherwise clean. 335 pages. First publication. Photograph available on request.

Condition: Good. 1959. First Published. 336 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over black cloth. Light tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild sunning and scuffing overall. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Some minor tanning, creasing and scuffing overall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression of this attractive omnibus volume. VG with dustiness to top edge of page block and slight knocks to bottom corners, in Good+ jacket, unclipped fresh with some edge rubbing and a few small nicks at edges and foldovers.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart first edition of this thrilling novel from British author Dennis Wheatley. First edition. Following British secret agent Gregory Sallust, who is tasked with infiltrating a Nazi organisation in Switzerland to disrupt their plans for a devastating chemical attack. He must navigate a web of double agents, betrayals, and plots. Written by Dennis Yates Wheatley, a prolific British writer of thrillers and occult novels who was one of the world's best-selling authors from the 1930s through to the 1960s. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor fading to the head of the spine. Original unclipped dust wrapper is smart with light wear and minor chipping to the extremities. Loss to the head of the spine with the odd small crease. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First (omnibus) edition thus (preceded by individual hardcover releases from 1934, 1936 and 1959 among others) first printing of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with minor wear to the extremities, a crease on the rear cover at the bottom, two small closed tears on the spine at the bottom and one small closed tear on the back cover at the top. Collects three full novels in the Gregory Sallust adventure series, a British agent battling the Nazis, sometimes dabbling in the occult. The novels collected are the 1st, "Black August" 1934, the 2nd, "Contraband" 1936, and the 8th, "The Island Where Time Stands Still" 1954.