Rasp by Philip Macdonald, First Edition (19 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. First Edition. First thus.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Undated [c1930]. 1st edition thus. Blue cloth, gilt titles to spine, blind stamped to front, illustrated endpapers. Collection of four golden age detective novels dating from the 1920s. B/w frontis. and 16 other plates gathered together at the start of the book. Condition: Good. Light edgewear with small loss to foot of spine. Spine sunned. Pages lightly age toned. No inscriptions. Tape repair to gutter between title page and frontis. Size: 8.5x6in/22x15cm. 704pp. Weight: 790g.

Paperback. first thus. near fine, unread paperback,

1st ed. thus pictorial wrappers Near Fine octavo 278pp., frontis., Originally published 1924.

First Edition. First paperback edition. Lists other titles to be publishe din 1928 to rear, making this a very early Golden Age Detective paperback. Larger format (22cm x 13cm) A little edgewear and some marking to cover edges. Paper tanning, but a Good+ example of a rare item.

Pictorial Wrappers. Condition: Very Good-Near Fine. Later Edition. 3rd Avon printing [1st Classic Crime Collection printing]. February 1970. Avon #PN268 .A victim is bludgeoned to death with a woodworker's rasp in this first case for the famed gentleman detective Anthony Gethryn. Ex-Secret Service agent Anthony Gethryn is killing time working for a newspaper when he is sent to cover the murder of Cabinet minister John Hoode, bludgeoned to death in his country home with a wood-rasp. Gethryn is convinced that the prime suspect, Hoode's secretary Alan Deacon, is innocent, but to prove it he must convince the police that not everyone else has a cast-iron alibi for the time of the murder. "Between September 1969 and November 1971 Avon Books published thirty-eight books in the Avon Classic Crime Collection Series. They had a distinctive design of three colored stripes running diagonally across the front cover, spine, and rear cover that made them easily recognizable." Jeff Meyerson, The Mystery Fancier (Vol. 1 No. 5) September 1977 - Page 19. Book.

9th impression of the first edition in same chunky format. Red Cloth Black lettering with dagger and gun motif One small white spot to upper cover. Pages toned, otherwise VG.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. Seventh Edition. Seven penny issue. Clean red cloth on boards with black title. Spine: thin light vertical rise to centre of spine; soft rubbings to head & foot. Edges: foxing.Signature to fep. Faint few only foxings to title and refp pages. Clean contents. Binding is VG albeit only very slightly cocked. 255p Dj: moderate soiling & rubbings. Spine: light sunning; head & foot with thin wear, small splits & chips.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. REMAINDER SLASH to top of page ends, hence vg grade. First Vintage Books Edition 1984 stated, nap. looks unused with minor shelf wear; no marks, creases, etc. fiction mass market paperback shelved in SECTION N. Language: eng.

Black Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Ix, 437 Pp. Grey Cloth, Spine Lettered In Maroon. First Edition Stated. Near Fine, No Marks. Dust Jacket Price Clipped But With Part Of $ Sign Remaining At Top Of Front Flap; Short Tear And Creasing At Top Of Spine; Light Foxing In Lower Part Of Front Panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First. Boards in black cloth, very good+ w/ cool Van Dine Detective Library duo-color(black and silver) embossment on cover, owner name on endpaper w/ date(1929). 278p., "The Owl shows its blue and gilt cover on the bookstalls every Saturday morning. Thursday nights are therefore nights of turmoil in the offices in Fleet Street." 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

8vo, pp. 127, [1]. Original colour-printed card wrappers. Poor-quality paper somewhat toned. Wrappers a little creased and soiled, spine covering a bit chipped, small area of loss to foot. A fragile Collins sixpenny paperback, probably the first paperback edition of the first novel by prolific thriller writer Philip Macdonald, and the first to feature his series detective character Anthony Gethryn. The distinctive green wrappers reuse part of the artwork from the jacket of the 1924 first edition, this style having been used by Collins between c.1928 and 1935. Interestingly, it is not branded a Crime Club book despite being advertised as such on the final page - Collins Crime Club launched in 1930 as a hardcover imprint so this may represent a transitional period in Collins? branding of their crime books. The Rasp was adapted for the screen in 1932 by director Michael Powell.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Dial Press did not print a copyright page; therefore, there is no mention of any later editions of this omnibus collecting three of the greatest detective stories. Featured are The Melody of Death by Edgar Wallace, The Bartenstein Mystery by J.S. Fletcher and The Rasp by Philip MacDonald. Slight sun fading to the spine. Shallow tears to the tips of the spine. No price on the dustjacket. In very good / very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In sturdy red boards with very mild wear. The author's first book, an Anthony Gethryn mystery. A basically clean and unmarked copy of this RARE Haycraft-Queen cornerstone.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good. Webbing exposed at half-title page recto. Foxed and toned. Published by W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., London, 1924. First edition, first printing. The debut novel of Philip Macdonald, an important figure in the 'Golden Age' of crime fiction. He was a grandson of George Macdonald, and wrote his first books in collaboration with his father, also a novelist. 'The Rasp' and 'The Nursemaid Who Disappeared' were selected as Haycraft-Queen 'Cornerstones'.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo. Pp vii, 306. 4 page publisher's list. Original light brown cloth, ruled and lettered in orange. Spine leaning. Binding shows a little soiling. Spots of foxing to half title page, title page and following 8 pages. Foxing to edges. No inscriptions. A decent copy of the author's first book.

First Edition. His first novel, supplied in a fine facsimile copy of the first edition wrapper. Anthony Gethryn Brown Cloth, orange lettering, slightest of spine lean, very small piece missing from bottom corner of fep otherwise a bright and clean copy of this Haycraft Cornerstone. Small contemporary name on fep,

First Edition Thus. Original black art-deco cloth, in original printed dustjackets. Four of the six original volumes of the S. S. Van Dine Detective Library series. Virtually unknown in dustjackets. An oddity. Near Fine volumes in Very Good dustjackets, some with mild chipping.