Boards bumped at head of spine; jacket very good.
Jacket artwork by Fox.
£60
London, Jarrolds, 1954.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Out of stock
Boards bumped at head of spine; jacket very good.
Jacket artwork by Fox.
Detective Fiction
London, Jarrolds, 1935
First UK edition (Translation of Chateau en Limousin published in Paris in 1934). 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Suzanne Marguerite Tinayre was a prolific French novelist and woman of letters. This was her only crime novel and is listed in Hubin.
It concerns the celebrated case of Madame Lafarge and whether she really murdered her husband nearly a century earlier.
Very scarce with only one copy cited by COPAC in the British library.
Detective Fiction
London, Jarrolds, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A Christmas party on the Yorkshire moors leads to murder...
Detective Fiction
London, Jarrolds, [1927].First edition thus. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.Although originally published in 1909, this later edition is quite superb in the original dust-jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Jarrolds, 1939.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Marthe Mathilde Cnockaert (1892–1966) was a Belgian nurse who became a spy for the United Kingdom during WWI. She was awarded the Iron Cross by the Germans for her medical service and later wrote several novels based on her experiences.
Detective Fiction
London, Jarrolds, 1938.
'Fifth Thousand', 3/6 edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in black to spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
Hubin-listed crime thriller. Jessie Louisa Rickard (1876–1963), also known as Mrs. Victor Rickard, was an Irish novelist who wrote over forty novels. She preferred the name Mrs. Victor Rickard to avoid association with a murder victim of the same name.