Tragedy Line by Rhode John (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. London: The Crime Club, 1973. 252 pages. Black lettering on the spine. Corners are bumped; previous owner's library sticker on the front free endpaper; paper is yellowed. Dust jacket is protected in Brodart, is scuffed along the edges. A very good copy of this Superintendent Quillan mystery. Red Cloth. 4.75 x 7.5 inches.…

Original Cloth. Condition: Good. Fifth Impression. Fifth impression from December 1932 of a book first published in February 1931. The boards have strips of fading along the top edge of the front panel and the right edge of the rear panel. The spine is also heavily faded with a little fraying at the bottom. Heavy bumping to the top right corner of the front panel and the bottom left corner of the rear panel with light rubbing to the edges of the boards and a spine lean. Browning and scattered spotting to the page edges. Browning and spotting to the endpapers and the pages at the front and back of the book. Previous owner's name in ink to the first page. The pages are otherwise generally unmarked. No jacket.…

7.5 x 4.75 inches. In red cloth covers with black lettering to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine faded. Stain mark to spine. Covers rubbed. Rubbed along edges with chips from corners and ends of spine. Shelving marks. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap.). Ends of spine and corners lightly rubbed. Tanning to endpapers. Else a clean and tight copy. 252pp. The wealthy Gervase Wickenden is found dead on the railway line near Upton Bishop's station. Decapitated it is at first assumed he was killed by a train, until a bullet is discovered in a nearby tree. Added to this was the suspicious fact that he had changed his will only two days before, and both the old and the new version are now missing.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th or later Edition. 5th Edition 1932. Dust jacket is worn and chipped with pieces missing from top and bottom of spine. Creasing to the top and bottom edges. Still fairly bright. Wear and fading to both boards and spine. Toning to all edges and throughout. Book is cocked.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Hardcover. First American Edition. Light foxing to prelims, boards slightly darkened and rubbed with a tiny tear to the top of the rear joint, else very good in publisher's red cloth lettered in black.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. Tragedy On the Line by John Rhode Fifth Impression The Crime Club Collins 1932. A VG+ copy with no inscriptions or signs of ownership. In original, bright VG+ dust jacket. Scarce.

Jean Bernard PARIS, Librairie des Champs-Élysées [23, rue Marbeuf /// IFE, Imprimerie Française de l'Édition, 12, rue de l'Abbé de l'Épée] - Copyright 1933 - C.18,5x12x2,1 cm - Cartonnage éditeur jaune titré et orné du masque à la plume emblématique de la collection en marron; jaquette au premier plat illustré en couleurs par Jean Bernard et titré en gris et blanc, dos blanc titré, numéroté et orné en rouge et noir, 4e de jaquette blanc au texte de présentation de 'Mémoires de Guerre secrète' en noir; catalogue intérieur in-fine des 129 titres parus (1 à 129); 249 et (5) pages. (Collection Le Masque - Collection de Romans d'Aventures - N° 130 [306.000.141], dirigée par Albert Pigasse - 6 fr). Jaquette avec petits manques de papier aux dos et premier plat. Bon état général. LA PHOTO AUGMENTE LES DÉFAUTS DE LA JAQUETTE, surtout les rousseurs. BIEN COMPLET DE SA JAQUETTE illustrée. Première édition dans la collection. Français Livres.…