Aucott & Thomas

Death of my aunt.

Kitchin, C. H. B. · 1949

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

John Lehmann, 1949. Second Edition. Hardcover. Ex library hardback, book tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, boards worn at edges, 10p on front endpaper, library nos on title page and label on rear endpaper, stain to top of last page.168 pages. Fair with no dust jacket.

The white crow.

MacDonald, Philip · 1934

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Detective Story Club (WM. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd), 1934. Reprint. Hardcover. Tatty hardback bound in blue cloth with faded gilt titles, binding pulled, spine creased and worn, cloth worn, pages age tanned, front and rear endpapers excised, pencil scribble on title page, rear p...

Hands unseen.

Landon, Herman · 1924

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 1924. First British Edition. Hardcover. Hardback book bound in maroon boards with black titles, boards marked and worn at edges, spine pulled, pages age tanned, edges,grubby, childish pencil scribble on front endpapers and title page. 272 pag...

The midnight men.

Vane, Nigel (Gerald Verner) · 1936

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Stanley Smith (Publishers) Ltd. 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback book tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, boards marked, spine pulled with short split at bottom edge, endpapers excised, numbers and tape marks on title page. 152 pages. Poor.

The veils of death.

Vane, Nigel (Gerald Verner) · 1935

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

The Modern Publishing Company, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback bound in red boards with black titles, binding shaken, spine sunned, front board has small area of surface loss at the fore edge, pages age tanned, no inscriptions. 254 pages. Undated but Copac gives...

Murder in the mill-race.

Lorac, E. C. R. · 1952

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Japan: Collins Crime Club, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. A tatty reading copy, an ex library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, in a library binding, back cover has remains of label, rear endpaper excised. 188 pages. Poor.

Address: Centauri.

Wallace, F. L. · 1955

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

U.S.A: Gnome Press, Inc. 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in brown cloth with black titles, cloth rubbed at corners,label mark on top of front board, pages tanned, no inscriptions. 220 pages. Good with no dust jacket.

The moor.

Whitelaw, David · 1949

£7.00 (€8.39 | $9.25 | ¥1,477)

Macdonald & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex private library hardback with usual stamps and stickers, tightly bound in faded blue cloth with silver titles, boards cocked, spine tanned, cloth worn, page edges grubby, front foldover of dustwrapper stuck t...

Give Daddy the knife darling.

Lymington, John (John Newton Chance) · 1969

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Hodder and Stoughton, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, cloth has a few marks on back cover, 30 on front endpaper otherwise no inscriptions. 192 pages. Good.

In days of poss tubs and pigs: childhood memories of the North Riding.

Turner, Elizabeth (ed) · 1987

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Guisborough: County Endeavour Local History Project, 1987. First Edition. Softcover. Clean and tightly bound paperback original, stapled spine, glossy pictorial covers, crease to bottom front corner, no inscriptions, appears little used. 100 pages, photos & illustrations in th...

A Lankisher Dickshonary.

Baron, Joseph · 1907

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

U.S.A: Advance Press (Blackburn) Limited, 1907. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, spine and part of back cover sunned, cloth rubbed at corners, pages tanned, name and 2 addresses on front endpaper. 154 pages, photo frontisp...

Grim death.

Verner, Gerald · 1960

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Wright & Brown Ltd. 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with 1 on the front endpaper but no other inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and worn. 172 pages + 2 pages of publisher's adverts. Good in Fair dust jacket.

The "Q" squad.

Verner, Gerald · 1938

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

The Macaulay Company, 1938. First American Edition. Hardcover. Reading copy, an ex private library hardback with a few stamps, boards worn at spine ends, page edges tanned. 254 pages. Fair with no dust jacket.

The show must go on; the novel of the B.B.C. play.

Verner, Gerald · 1950

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Wright & Brown, 1950. First Edition. Hardcover. Reading copy, an ex private library hardback with the usual stamps & stickers, spine tanned, cloth worn and marked, pages age tanned, front cover of dustjacket stuck to front endpaper. 256 pages. Poor with no dust jacket.

The heel of Achilles.

Verner, Gerald · 1945

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Wright & Brown, 1945. Reprint; Second Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with black titles, cloth rubbed at spine ends and corners, 10p in ink on title page but no other inscriptions. 188 pages. Good with no dust jacket.

With no crying.

Fremlin, Celia · 1980

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Book Club Associates, 1980. Reprint. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book, boards have bend to the back where something heavy has been pushed them out of shape, no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket with a vertical crease to back cover. 158 pages. Go...

Behind the yellow blind.

Walling, R. A. J. · 1935

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,532)

Hodder and Stoughton, 1935. Reprint; Second Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, spine sunned, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, no inscriptions. 318 pages, red endpapers. Good with no dust jacket.

The peregrine.

Baker, J. A. · 1967

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

Collins, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, bookseller's label on front pastedown, in an unclipped dustjacket which is chipped and creased at the edges and has 3 repaired closed tears at spine and front foldover. 192 pages. Very Good in Fair d...

Seventeenth-century villagers on a feast day.

Richardson, Hazel (Illustrated by John Lawrence) · 1966

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,371)

Oxford University Press, 1966. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by John Lawrence Paperback original. Neat name on first page, o/w clean and tight. One of the 'People of the past' series, 32 pages, 16 illustrations.. Very Good.

The lady in question: and other stories.

Robey, George · 1922

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Canada: Eveleigh, Nash & Grayson, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. Hardback in red cloth with black titles and decoration, clean inside and out, no inscriptions, binding tight. 256 pages, illustrated by E. P. Kinsella. No dustjacket. Very Good with no dust jacket.