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The Caterpillar Cop

James McClure · 1972

£120.00 (€143.73 | $161.41 | ¥25,502)

London, Victor Gollancz, 1972. First edition. Cloth. An uncorrected proof edition of this crime novel by James McClure. A second thriller set in South Africa by the author whose first 'The Steam Pig' won the Crime Writers' Award for the best crime novel of 1971....

Rostnikov&Apos;S Corpse

Stuart M. Kaminsky · 1981

£150.00 (€179.66 | $201.76 | ¥31,878)

London, Macmillan, 1981. First edition. Cloth. A first edition crime novel by Stuart M. Kaminsky. Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring...

Livia or Buried Alive

Lawrence Durrell · 1978

£190.00 (€227.57 | $255.56 | ¥40,379)

London, Faber and Faber, 1978. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of 'Livia or Buried Alive' by Lawrence Durrell. 'Livia', published in 1978 and sub-titled Buried Alive, is the second volume in Lawrence Durrell's 'The Avignon Quintet&apos. The ...

Bolt

Dick Francis · 1986

£99.99 (€119.76 | $134.49 | ¥21,250)

London, Michael Joseph, 1986. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this thriller by Dick Francis. An author's presentation copy, with an ink inscription to a label on front free endpaper reading, 'John, Best wishes, Dick Francis. 1986&apos. In a cloth covered bin...

The Spire

William Golding · 1964

£95.00 (€113.78 | $127.78 | ¥20,189)

London, Faber and Faber, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of William Golding's sixth novel, 'The Spire&apos. Utilising a stream of consciousness style, the book deals with the construction of a spire and its creator Dean Jocelin. As well as its style of wr...

Phantoms

Dean R. Koontz · 1983

£140.00 (€167.68 | $188.31 | ¥29,753)

London, W. H. Allen, 1983. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this thrilling novel from Dean R. Koontz. Featuring the original dustwrapper. Koontz's novels can broadly be described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, ...

Risk

Dick Francis · 1977

£150.00 (€179.66 | $201.76 | ¥31,878)

London, Michael Joseph, 1977. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this crime thriller by Dick Francis. An author's presentation copy, with an ink inscription to front free endpaper: 'Christmas 1977. John, very best wishes, Dick Francis.' In a cloth covered ...

The Wood Beyond

Reginald Hill · 1996

£39.99 (€47.90 | $53.79 | ¥8,499)

London, Harper Collins, 1996. First edition. Cloth. A thrilling crime thriller by Reginald HIll. A smart copy of this fast-paced crime thriller, being part of Hill's Dalziel and Pascoe series. First edition. Neatly signed by the author to the title page. Featuring the ori...

One Virgin Too Many

Lindsey Davis · 1999

£38.00 (€45.51 | $51.11 | ¥8,076)

London, Century, 1999. First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition of Lindsey Davis' historical novel. Signed by the author to the title page. Lindsey Davis (born 1949) is an English historical novelist, best known as the author of the Falco series of historical crime st...

A Game for Heroes

James Graham; Harry Patterson · 1970

£59.99 (€71.85 | $80.69 | ¥12,749)

London, Macmillan, 1970. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this thrilling adventure novel from Harry Patterson. The first of Harry Patterson's works to written under his pseudonym James Graham. Pattersone was one of the best-selling authors of thrillers of his time...

Love and Friendship

Alison Lurie · 1962

£99.99 (€119.76 | $134.49 | ¥21,250)

London, Heinemann, 1962. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel in the original dustwrapper, by Alison Lurie. The first UK edition of Alison Lurie's first novel about two female faculty members in a male-dominated workplace. Alison Lurie won the Pulitzer Pr...

The Prisoner in the Mask

Dennis Wheatley · 1957

£22.99 (€27.54 | $30.92 | ¥4,886)

London, Hutchinson of London, 1957. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this historical novel by Dennis Wheatley. 'This most thrilling, romantic and gay story of ten years in the young manhood of the Duke de Richleau in the France of the 'nineties shows the "pri...

Quiller Meridian

Adam Hall; Elleston Trevor · 1993

£350.00 (€419.21 | $470.77 | ¥74,382)

London, Headline, 1993. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first English edition of 'Elleston Trevor's Cold War thriller, seventeenth in the Quiller series. With illustrated dustwrapper designed by David Bull. The Quiller series focuses on a solitary, highly capable sp...

Roll of Honour

Eric Linklater · 1961

£23.99 (€28.73 | $32.27 | ¥5,098)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1961. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Eric Linklater's novel 'Roll of Honour&apos. Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 - 7 November 1974) was a British writer, known for more than 20 novels, as well as short stories, trav...

The Winter Queen

Boris Akunin · 2003

£29.99 (€35.92 | $40.34 | ¥6,373)

London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2003. First edition. Cloth. The first UK edition of this historical mystery novel set in nineteenth-century Moscow. Translated from the Russian by Andrew Bromfield. Boris Akunin is the pen name of Grigori Chkhartishvili, and is best known for h...

The Sky and the Forest

C. S. Forester; Cecil Louis Troughton Smith · 1948

£64.99 (€77.84 | $87.42 | ¥13,812)

London, Michael Joseph, 1948. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of one of Cecil Scott Forester's renowned tales of naval warfare. Featuring the original unclipped dustwrapper. Forester's other works include; 'The African Queen', 'A Ship of the Line...

Streetwalker

Jonathan Gash · 1959

£34.99 (€41.91 | $47.06 | ¥7,436)

London, The Bodley Head, 1959. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this novel by Jonathan Gash. The first UK edition of this controversial fictionalised account of the life of a prostitute in London's West End. 'Streetwalker' was published anonymously, bu...

This Little World

Francis Brett Young · 1934

£80.00 (€95.82 | $107.61 | ¥17,002)

London, William Heinemann, 1934. First edition. Cloth. A signed copy of this first edition novel by Francis Brett Young. The first edition. Written to the verso of front endpaper is 'The first 25 copies of 'This Little World' taken from the machine have been spe...

The Face of a Madonna

Thomas Armstrong · 1964

£42.99 (€51.49 | $57.82 | ¥9,136)

London, Collins, 1964. First edition. Cloth. A first edition novel by Thomas Armstrong. "In this book [Armstrong] tells of another Yorkshire, further removed in time but still, as she has always been, the greatest of English counties." "Thomas Armstrong paints the high middle ...

Play Dead

Harlan Coben · 1991

£69.99 (€83.83 | $94.14 | ¥14,874)

London, Piatkus, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first English edition of this thrilling novel from Harlan Coben. "A nonstop, closely-knit thriller from start to finish, Play Dead takes us careening through suspense, intrigue, and mistaken identity." With original photographic...