Crime And Detective Fiction from Quair Books

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1943. Cloth. Good+. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Unevenly sunned and rubbed, pushing to spine ends, edgewear, bottom corners bumped, a few scores to bottom board. Inscribed by Farjeon in blue pen to ffep: "Dearest Denys – Nollekins –/ from Eleanor – Nellikins –/ to mark… Read more about this item

London: Arthur Baker Limited, 1974. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original black buckram, spine lettered in red. Pushing to spine ends, elsem clean and tidy. In John Storey's striking monochrome dust jacket, lettered in red: edgewear, rear panel shelf-soiled. Still, a pleasing copy of the second Nora Mulcahaney novel. Very good/ very good

London: Macmillan, 1975. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black buckram, spine lettered in white. Illustrated endpapers, the "design taken from a sketch of Moreton Bay held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney" (author's note). Bruising to head of spine. Toned, erratum slip (originally inserted at author's note), pasted directly, by PO, to p. 232, over incorrect lines. Else, clean and… Read more about this item

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, a few minor marks. In Craigie's perfect illustrated dust jacket: chips to spine ends, edgwear and creasing. Very good/ good+ A nice copy. As Dorothy Craigie's dust jacket neatly encapsulates, Caspary's novel is… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1963. Cloth. Very Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. 253, [1]. Original turquoise cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine ends bruised, scant spotting to top edge. Else, clean and tidy. In Rosemary Grimble's illustrated dust jacket: price-clipped, spine gently sunned, rear panel shelf-soiled, wear and chipping, heaviest at spine ends, small loss and creasing to… Read more about this item

London: Hutchinson & Co. Ltd/ Crime Book Society, 1936. Very Good. FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY WHEATLEY. Ribbon-tied 4to dossier, ff. [136], incl. blood-stained textile extract, hair sample and a match + b/w plates. Buff card wrappers printed in blue and red, seal to rear crudely opened. Grubby, a little wrinkled, spine ends and edges creased and dog-eared, commensurate with its… Read more about this item

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, edges foxed. Lengthy pencil note to ffep connecting characters and settings to British booksellers and quoting Sims, some foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. In Bernard Blatch's original pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned, score to front panel, else, sharp… Read more about this item

London: Collins/ The Crime Club, 1971. Hardback. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Bruising to spine ends, reading crease to spine. Edges toned. Else, clean and tight. In the Roy Belcher dust jacket: rubbed and creased at edges, extremities and joint of front flap. Still, an appealing copy. Very good/ very good.… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. Good. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, pp. [208]. Red cloth, spine lettered in silver. Pushing to spine ends, head of spine sunned, dusty top edge. POI to front pastedown, offsetting to feps. Else, clean and tight. In the Patricia Davey-designed dust jacket: sunned, spine ends and corners chipped, creasing and edgewear, scoring to panels, foxed on… Read more about this item

London: Macdonald, 1954. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in yellow. Bruising to spine ends, edges dusty with a few spots. Else, clean and tidy. A very good copy of the 23rd Inspector Schmidt novel. The prolific US novelist received the Grand Master Edgar award in 1979 from the Mystery Writers… Read more about this item

London: The Women's Press, 1987. Very Good. FIRST UK PAPERBACK EDITION (preceding the US edition). Tanned, bottom corners bumped, else, a clean, tight copy. Very good The debut of lesbian private eye Emma Victor. She Came Too Late featured on the London City Limits Bestseller List for seven weeks and won Best Novel of the… Read more about this item

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1974. Very Good. FIRST UK EDITION. 8vo. Red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, top corners bumped. Some foxing to edges. Else, clean and tight. In the original yellow, black and plum dust jacket: creasing to top edge and extremities. Very good/ very good. Gollancz Thriller Series.

New York: Random House, 1941. "Second printing before publication" i.e. second impression. 8vo, pp. [282]. Grey cloth, lettered and decorated in blue. Top edge blue. Gentle bruising to extremities. POI to ffep, marginal nicking to pp.127-130, else, clean, tight and bright. In the rather fabulous midnight blue and gilt illustrated dust jacket (first state?): a little rubbed, edgewear, nicking to… Read more about this item

London: Virago Crime, 1998. Near Fine. FIRST EDITION. Trade paperback. Light edgewear, else, clean and tight. Near fine. The seventh outing of Nell Bray, Linscott's suffragette sleuth.

Paris: Presses de la Cit�, 1956. Good. In French. Trade paperback, appears to be issued the same year as the limited edition (of 100), pp. [192]. Purple illustrated wrappers. Spine sunned. Creased and significantly rubbed. Tanned, a few marks to the copyright page, ink spot to p. 131, a few dog-eared pages. Else, clean and tidy. … Read more about this item

Grafton Books, 1993. Good+. First Grafton paperback edition, reprinted from original 1987 Naiad Press edition. Trade paperback, pp. 188. Edgewear, tanning to edges. Else, clean. Good+ Forrest pioneered lesbian crime fiction in the US.

Penguin Books, 1961. Very Good. Second Penguin impression. MMP. Sunning, light creasing and rubbing to wrappers. Tanned edges. POI to half title. Else, clean and tight. PB no. 1292.