Arthur bell thompson (12 risultati)

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- Set mainly in Leipzig, the story tells how Sam Laker, civilian, but a veteran of World War II intelligence, reluctantly agrees to act as temporary unpaid agent for the West during a private business trip to East Germany. He is assured that it will be a routine mission involving no risk. . . (Francis Clifford is a pseudonym for Arthur Bell Thompson) . . .(1967 MOVIE). . .See photos for additional content. . .…

Condizione: VERY GOOD. Book club edition. A suspense novel about a man on the run - Tony Pascoe wasn't a thief - he was a bank teller - but after his wife leaves him for a man with more guts and more money, he finds himself stealing $25,000 and another man's passport and takes off for a new life in Spain. 185 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition stated (preceded by the U.K. hardcover release in 1974, published there as The Grosvenor Square Goodbye)first printing (In 1974 HBJ used "first edition" and the letter "B" to designate a first printing, if "first edition" is missing it's a 2nd printing at best), of a fine hardcover in a near fine dustjacket with one small closed tear on the front cover by the spine at the bottom and overall waviness in the paper from a previous archival cover on too tight. Featuring Richard Ireland, a famous actor and his girlfriend Gabrielle, who are taken hostage by a mysterious gunman, who demands 200,000 pounds in ransom. Winner of the 1974 Silver Dagger Award, and finalist for the 1975 Edgar Award for best mystery.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Good. First Hodder Pbk Edition. G, Edgewear, tear, creases, fading, mild spine lean, browning. "A vivid story of passion and compassion, murder and betrayal". Expanded condition report/digital photo on request.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American edition, first printing. A security guard for the Ministry of Defense conducts his own investigation after a German defector tells of a laser guided missile in this intricately plotted suspenseful mystery. Former owner's name stamped to the front end-paper, a one-inch long wear line to the lower rear shelf-edge, gilt spine titles partially flecked off, else tight, square, firm and very good in black linen with gilt flower to the front cover, bright yellow end-papers; in a near fine dust jacket with a few surface rub-wear dots to the lower end of the spine panel, two nicks to the upper shelf-edge of the rear panel, and rubs and crimps to the upper and lower spine edges; original printed $4.95 price and 6706 date code still intact to the front inner flap.…

Condizione: FINE. First US printing. A classic of suspense and deception by the author best known for "The Naked Runner." A security officer in a handpicked Ministry of Defense department must conduct an investigation of his own department after the disclosures of German defector about a laser guided missile. 251 pp. Very near fine in a like dustjacket (dust jacket folded slightly off center).…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. 1st Edition. US hardback stated first edition. VG in unclipped jacket with some spine fade and a little ear to spine ends, including a nick to head of spine. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, some spotting and time staining to back jacket, corners rubbed with tiny loss, slight lean, some spotting to page fore edges. Not price clipped (10s 6d), no inscriptions, internally clean and tight, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 192pp. In a quiet Spanish town near Barcelona, the innocent Englishman abroad Stephen Tyler is trying to pursue his career as a novelist and scriptwriter when he stumbles into a relationship with visiting German couple Erich and Ilsa Scheele. Tyler's growing attraction towards Scheele's wife though, soon proves dangerous, especially when the German's body is washed up on the beach, for this is Franco's Spain in the early 1960s, where suspicion runs deep but the scars of the Civil War are even deeper.Thriller writer Arthur Leonard Bell Thompson (1917-75), was a member of SOE during the war, serving first in India and later in London. Jacket by Peter Probyn (illustratore).…

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Rare. In used condition. Additional photographs and information available on request. Available for immediate dispatch from our Bookshop: Jabberwock Books, Horncastle, Lincolnshire.

Rare. Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. XVII. Humphrey Milford, London, 1933. First edition. In-4, 54 pages, 3 plates of facsimilés. Original softcover, rubbed and darkened, otherwise a fine copy. This bilingual papyrus, B.M. Pap. 10588 (Egyptian Department) contains both Greek and Demotic texts. Language: English. This book ships from Europe, shipping costs will be updated accordingly (BPF). Relevant subjects: Egypt: Greco-Roman, Language, Texts & Writing, Religion & Magic.…

Brossura. Condizione: buono. Magical Texts from a Bilingual Papyrus in the British Museum. Edited with translations commentary and facsimiles by H. Idris Bell, Arthur Darby Nock, Herbert Thompson. Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. XVII. Humphrey Milford, London, 1933. Formato cm. 16,5 x 25,5. Pagine 54 (3 pagine con facsimili ripiegate in appendice). B/N. Peso kg. 0,180. Brossura. Condizioni molto buone. Normali segni d'uso. La copertina presenta alcune sfrangiature (vedi foto). …

dj. First UK Edition, preceding all others. INSCRIBED by the author (using his real name) on the front endpaper in the year of publication: "Barbara Martin / with thanks and good wishes / Arthur Bell Thompson / March 1966." Basis for the 1967 film directed by Sidney J. Furie, starring Frank Sinatra and Peter Vaughn. Very Good plus, with faint foxing to the bottom page edges, in a lightly toned, Near Fine dust jacket. Signed.…