JOHN LE CARRE

The Le Carre Omnibus - Call for the Dead and Murder of Quality

London, Victor Gollancz. 1964, 1st Edition. Red boards with gilt spine lettering. Binding is firm and square. Inside clean, no foxing, marks or inscriptions. In the original, first issue, unclipped dust jacket priced 18/-, and X25 on rear panel. Dust jacket with light toning, neatly repaired tear to back panel, 2 small closed tears to rear side and slightest wear to extremities. 288 pp. 19 x 12,5 cm. Dust jacket now in removable protective sleeve. Fine book in very good/near fine dust jacket. Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002553

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Literature, Spy Thriller, le Carre. Literature

STEPHEN CHALMERS

The Affair of the Gallows Tree

Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Company / The Crime Club. 1930, 1st Edition. Publisher's black cloth, front board and spine stamped in red. Top edge stained red. In the original price-clipped dust jacket. Binding is firm and bright, spine with light crease and spine ends slightly pushed. Dust jacket has vibrant colors with slightest wear to front corner tip. 289 pp. Dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Near Fine/Near Fine.

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Book number: 002321

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Detectives, Mystery, Crime Stephen Chalmers

RAYMOND CHANDLER

The Little Sister

Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. 1949, 1st Edition. First US edition. Publisher's first-state orange cloth, spine and front stamped in blue. Spine ends slightly pushed, trace of shelf wear, some pages roughly cut. 249 pp. A near fine copy in facsimile dust jacket with slight wear that's now protected in mylar cover. Near Fine.

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Book number: 002322

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Detectives, Mystery, Crime, Raymond Chandler,

RAYMOND CHANDLER

Spanish Blood. A collection of short stories.

Cleveland / New York, The World Publishing Company. 1946, 1st Edition. Black cloth covered boards stamped red. In original illustrated dust jacket. Binding is bright and firm, top edge stained red. Pages uniformly tanned. No marks or inscriptions. Jacket nicked at spine and flap fold ends, foxing along rear flap fold and top edge of rear flap. 221 pp. Dustjacket now in protective mylar cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002318

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Mystery and Detective, Crime, Hard Boiled, Raymond Chandler

MANNING COLES

Night Train to Paris

London, Hodder and Stoughton. 1952, 1st Edition. Cloth covered boards with black spine lettering. Binding is firm, pages are clean; no marks or inscriptions. Publishers original, unclipped dustjacket with light wear and small tears. 254 pp. Dustjacket now protected in mylar cover. Near Fine/Very Good.

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Book number: 002315

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Detectives, Mystery, Crime, Spy Thrillers, Uk, Manning Coles

ERLE STANLEY GARDNER

The case of the baited hook

New York, William Morrow and Co. 1940, 1st Edition. Publisher's black cloth over boards. Spine and front cover stamped in red. Original illustrated dust jacket. Binding is bright en firm, fore edge untrimmed, top edge stained (faded) red. Lower corners slightly bumped. Some pale soiling to boards. No marks or inscriptions. Jacket is worn and nicked at edges with short tears, the longest of which is repaired with clear tape at verso; rubbing; folds creased. 281 pp. Jacket now protected in mylar cover. Very Good/Good.

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Book number: 002317

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Crime, Detective, Usa, Erle Stanley Gardner

FRANK GRUBER

The Buffalo Box. A Simon Lash Mystery.

New York, Farrar & Rinehart. 1942, 1st Edition. Publisher's red cloth, front board and spine lettered in black. Fore edge untrimmed. In original publisher's dust jacket. Previous owner's inkstamp on front paste-down and inked name and address on front flyleaf. Three leaves (pages 117, 277, 280) roughly opened, final blanks unopened. In dust jacket with bright colors and restoration to spine ends, corners and extremities. [iv], 279 pp. [5 blank]. Dust jacket now in protective mylar cover. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002320

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Detective, Mystery, Crime, Frank Gruber, Simon Lash

MACDONALD, PHILIP

The White Crow

London, Collins. 0. Hardcover in original dustjacket. Later but early edition in 12mo. Reprint in the 'Collins 1 shilling novels' series. Spine of binding is vertically torn over the whole length. First and last pages foxed. First page is the title page. Neat bookseller ticket to paste down. No marks or inscriptions. In very good dustjacket with light wear, 2 closed tears to upper edge and light fading to spine. 282 pp. 16 x 11 cm. Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 002642

Catalogue: Mystery & Crime

Keywords: Literature, Fiction, Detective, Crime