Robbery Violence by Rhode (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. Foxing to prelims and edges of textblock, else a very good hardback in a darkened ands rubbed jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d. A late Dr Priestley detective novel. The theft of £9,750 from a locked room at the Fendyke branch of the Capital and Provinces Bank, with no sign of forced entry, has completely baffled Superintendent Jimmy Waghorn. Eighteen months later the murder of Edgar Chelmsford, an unpopular local businessman found dead in a ditch beside his damaged motorcycle, takes Waghorn back to Fendyke. Julian Symons placed Street among the "Humdrum" school, but Jacques Barzun admired several of the Rhode novels, and Curtis Evans's Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery (2012) has prompted a reappraisal. His books are now scarce and much sought by collectors. Minor toning to margins; cloth slightly softened at head of spine; jacket worn at spine ends and fore-corners with minor loss, light tape burns to inside front flaps. Book.…

Geoffrey Bles. 1957. First edition. Hardback with DW. Scarce in DW. Wrapper worn to extremities and slightly chipped at corners, but o/w a lovely clean and sound copy.

Condition: Very Good -. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red boards, black spine titling; 255pp. Boards rubbed and rather bumped along margins with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, occasional soiling to binding and textblock, textblock additionally rather toned due to inferior paper quality, spine a bit creased and cocked; a Good to Very Good copy, albeit lacking uncommon jacket. One of seventy-two detective novels pseudonymously written by Cecil Rhodes featuring the investigative prowess of Dr. Priestley.…