HUME, FERGUS

The Millionaire Mystery

Collins Clear-Type Press, London & Glasgow, 1910. Reprint, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/no dust Jacket. 200 g.; 208 pages, includes 4 pages of advertisements for other books at the rear (Illustrated Pocket Classics) & a frontispiece and designed title page, followed by 2 pages of Collins' £.07 modern fiction. Slight splits at the bottom of the spine with rubbing, handling, and discolouration marks to the binding, darkening of the edges of the text block, and it would appear that a bookplate or similar has been removed from the front paste down. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams.

-- Syber's Books

Book number: 0234085

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Crime Fiction Fiction; crime fiction; crime fiction

FERGUS HUME.

LE TALISMAN BLEU.

Hachette.. 1929.. In-12 Carré. Broché. Bon état. 1er plat abîmé. Dos satisfaisant. Intérieur acceptable. 191 pages. 1ère de couverture illustrée en couleurs. Nombreuses illustrations en noir et blanc, dans le texte. Manque sur la 1ère de couverture.
¶ Bibliothèque dimanche illustré.

-- Le-livre.com

Book number: RO20081614

Keywords: Littératures des langues romanes. Littérature française

HUME FERGUS

Three

London, Ward Lock. 1921, First Edition. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. (500 gram rate) olive cloth titled in black, light rubbing, age browned endpapers, light foxing to closed edges etc, 319pp, rare title from the author of one of the rarest mystery novels ever (Mystery of a Hansom Cab). Good/No Jacket.

-- Fortuna Books

Book number: 005817

Catalogue: Crime & Thriller Fiction

Keywords: British Crime Thriller Murder Mystery Detective Thriller Fiction Novel Rare First Edition

GREENE, HUGH, ED. (CATHERINE LOUISA PIRKIS, ARTHUR MORRISON, DICK DONOVAN, ARTHUR MORRISON, M. MCD. BODKIN, FERGUS HUME, L.T. MEADE, CLIFFORD HALIFAX, J.S. FLETCHER, JACQUES FUTRELLE, RICHARD MARSH, VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH, ERNEST BRAMAH.)

The Crooked Counties: Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.

Bodley Head, London, 1973, first edition.. 318 pp, 8vo (8 11/16" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 0370014901 Contents: The Redhill Sisterhood; The Loss of Sammy Throckett; The Problem of Dead Wood Hall; The Case of Janissary; Murder by Proxy; The Amber Beads; How He Cut His Stick; A Ra ce with the Sun; The Contents of the Coffin; The Mystery of Room 666; The Man Who Cut Off My Hair; The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box; The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage. Murder and mayhem in the English countryside. Light browning to page s , l i g h t browning to fore-edge and bottom of textblock, minor rubbing on top of textblock. Dust jacket has been price clipped, has light edge wear/wrinkling, light browning to spine and some edges. Very Good/Very Good-.

-- Capricorn Books

Book number: 21494

Catalogue: Mysteries

Keywords: Detectives, Detective Stories, English Countryside, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Surrey, Sussex, Hampshire, Cornwall, Doreset, Home Counties, Murder, Victorian, Edwardian, Crime, Women.

GULL, RANGER/HUME, FERGUS/WARDEN, FLORENCE/THORNE, GUY

An Omnibus Thriller of Murder and Mystery

London, Werner Laurie, 1931. First Thus. Board HB. 16mo. Light soiling to boards. Cracking at title page. Good+ .

-- The Victoria Bookshop

Book number: 500011419

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Fiction G

HUME, FERGUS

The Best of Her Sex

GB, King. Hardback. c1910. Lacks front endpaper and halftitle. G++.

-- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)

Book number: c053.028

Catalogue: C. Sto

HUME, FERGUS

THE BISHOP'S SECRET.

Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & Company [1906?], 1906. Reprint under altered title. Copyright 1900 and 1906 by Rand, McNally. [viii],324pp crown 8vo original red cloth lettered in black. Hinges slightly weak, 1910 inscription on endpaper. The prelims are reset, omitting the list of contents.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8833

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

THE BISHOP'S SECRET.

Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & Company [1906?], 1906. Reprint under altered title. Copyright 1900 and 1906 by Rand, McNally. [viii],324pp crown 8vo original red cloth lettered and decorated in gold. A very good sound copy. The prelims are reset, omitting the contents.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8832

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

BISHOP PENDLE, Or, The Bishop's Secret..

Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & Company, Probably the first US edition, Copyright 1900 by Rand, McNally. The sheets of the UK edition with cancel title-page. viii,324pp crown 8vo original grey cloth lettered in red and black. Inscription dated Nov. 26th 1902, very light wear to covers, a very good sound copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8831

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS.

The bishop's secret.

Chicago and New York, Rand, McNally & Company, Publishers [c1906].. Original red cloth stamped in gold. Bookseller's stamp on the rear pastedown, gold on the spine darkened, small rubbed patch at the foot of the front cover, otherwise unusually bright, near fine. Second American edition, the first with the original title. Rand McNally published the first American edition in 1900 under the title Bishop Prendle; or, The Bishop's secret. Title included in Hubin/ Crime Fiction.

-- William & Nina Matheson Books, Inc. (ABAA)

Book number: 17198

Keywords: Fiction

HUME, FERGUS

THE BLACK PATCH.

London, John Long, 1906. First Edition. 319pp [317-318 blank, 319 advt.] crown 8vo original red pictorial cloth. Lacks half-title, covers a little worn and darkened and lower joint splitting; some foxing in text; reasonable copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8834

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

THE BLUE TALISMAN. A Detective Story..

New York, Grosset & Dunlap [192-?], A reprint dating from the mid to late 1920s. 320pp crown 8vo original red cloth lettered in black. A very good sound copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8838

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

THE BLUE TALISMAN. A Detective Story..

New York, Edward J. Clode, Inc., 1925. First US edition (13 years after the UK edition). 320pp crown 8vo original black cloth lettered in gold. A very good sound copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8837

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

THE BLUE TALISMAN..

London, Collins Clear-Type Press [ca.1920], 1920. Cheap reprint. Frontis. 255pp 16mo original red boards lettered in blind.The frontis and title are on two conjugate leaves of plate paper. The ads list 'Collins' Sevenpennies' to no.135, this being no.132. A very good copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8842

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

The Blue Talisman

London, The Literary Press. Hard Cover. Undated reprint. Original glazed red boards. Rubbed on extremities, otherwise good.

-- Richard Beaton

Book number: 01542

Catalogue: Crime, Sensation

HUME, FERGUS

THE BLUE TALISMAN..

London, The Literary Press Ltd. [1929?], 1929. Cheap reprint. 255pp small crown 8vo original red boards lettered in black. Size 188x126mm (7.5 x 5 inches). The English Catalogue of Books records another edition from this press in a smaller size (7 x 4.75 inches) published March 1929; this may be the same date, though this copy has a 1942 inscription; certainly both are from the same setting of type (this has larger margins) and differ only in title-page and binding. Slight wear to head of spine, paper spotted in places; sound copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8840

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS.

The Blue Talisman.

Grosset and Dunlap, New York, 1925. 318 pp, black lettered boards, small hole in edge of spine at rear of book otherwise very good to fine copy.

-- Camberwell Books

Book number: 88505

Keywords: fiction detective modern firsts fergus hume

HUME, FERGUS

The Blue Talisman

GB, Collins. Hardback, Fcp. 1920s. Frontispiece and titlepage are loose. VG-/No DW.

-- Richard Sylvanus Williams (Est 1976) (Bookdealer)

Book number: c21.038

Catalogue: C. Sto

HUME, FERGUS

THE BLUE TALISMAN..

London, The Literary Press Ltd. [1929], 1929. Cheap reprint. 255pp small crown 8vo original red boards. Size 177 x 121mm (7 x 4.75 inches). The English Catalogue of Books records this edition as published March 1929. There is also a slightly larger edition from the same publisher; both are the same format and from the same setting of type (which seems to derive from the Collins Clear-Type Press edition). Covers worn at edges, lower joint and both hinges taped; paper browning.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8841

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

THE CARBUNCLE CLUE. A Mystery..

London, Frederick Warne & Co., 1896. First Edition. 260pp crown 8vo original pale blue decorated cloth lettered in dark blue. Owner's name at head of title-page and first page of text, spine slightly canted, some light scuffing to covers; overall a very good sound copy. The book (which is complete) collates as follows: [A]2 B-II in 4s KK2 (128 leaves), paginated [1-2] [vii]-viii [9] 10-260pp. There is an interesting rubber stamp on the free front endpaper of this copy (not on another copy seen): "THIS BOOK WAS ENTIRELY SET BY THE LINOTYPE COMPOSING MACHINE AND MACHINED DIRECT FROM THE LINOTYPE BARS".

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8836

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

The Carbuncle Clue : a Mystery

Frederick Warne. 1896, Second Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 260pp. No chipping & no splitting to boards. Bumping to top right corner as if it has been gripped and consequently top right corner on first 10-15 leaves have indentations and short closed tear. Normal wear to boards; mild darkening to spine & to right margin of front board. Internally clean with no inscriptions. Tight textblock. No loose & no missing leaves. The dustwrapper is complete with no loss. Normal wear to wrapper extremities. Not price clipped. This title is from a large part of the inhouse private library of the national operatic and dramatic association of great britain (noda) which we recently purchased from the institution; there is a small neat noda stamp on cover & occasionally within text. Good.

-- Julian Roberts Fine Books PBFA

Book number: 18420

Catalogue: Fiction

Keywords: Crime Detective Fiction

HUME, FERGUS

The Carbuncle Clue: A Mystery

London: Frederick Warne & Co, [1896]. First Edition. Hardcover. Preliminary leaves missing except for title page. Title page nearly detached. Gutter broken at rear hinge. Heavy rubbing and wear to cloth boards and spine. 1" chip to cloth along rear joint. ; [ii], (9) - 260 pages. All preliminaries missing except for the title page. Blue cloth boards.; 8vo. Poor with no dust jacket .

-- Renaissance Books

Book number: 5972

HUME, FERGUS

CLAUDE DUVAL OF NINETY-FIVE..

New York, G.W. Dillingham [1897?], 1897. Probably the first US edition, copyright 1897. 256pp crown 8vo original fawn pictorial cloth lettered in brown. A very good sound (near fine) copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8835

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION

HUME, FERGUS

The Crimson Cryptogram: A Detective Story

New York, F. M. Buckles and Co.. Decorative Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾ tall. 255, (3) pp. (no date) The front and rear hinges have given way, held together by the webbing. The spine is faded and the front cover is soiled. The text is clean, and the text block binding is secure. Fair/No Jacket.

-- Persephone's Books

Book number: 012677

Keywords: Fiction; Mystery

HUME, FERGUS

THE CRIMSON CRYPTOGRAM. A Detective Story..

New York, New Amsterdam Book Company, 1902. First US edition. 255,[15,adv.]pp crown 8vo original bluish-green cloth lettered in gilt. Paper faintly browned and slight wear to spine ends - a very good sound and bright copy.

-- E.S.A.W. Books

Book number: nrfh8820

Catalogue: Fergus Hume

Keywords: DETECTIVE CRIME FICTION