Conyth little constance little (10 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. Reprint. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, sunned at spine, cloth worn and marked, page edges grubby, no inscriptions. 192 pages.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. US hardback stated first edition. Good overall with some faint stains to bottom corner area of pastedowns and endpapers. Has the bookplate of writer Paul Tabori to ffep. No jacket.

Condizione: Very good. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. Ink name to front pastedown; cloth slightly rubbed at spine ends; jacket with wear to corners and spine ends, some minor chipping. Book.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. 6.25 x 4.25", pict wraps, 189pp + publ. list, covers rubbed, lightly soiled and creased, pp toned; a good copy of the second mystery novel by the sisters Constance and Gwenyth Little (aka Conyth Little). INSCRIBED "To David, affectionately" AND SIGNED BY GWENYTH LITTLE; ALSO SIGNED BY CONSTANCE LITTLE. Gwenyth first mis-spelled "David" and has crossed it out above her inscription. SCARCE signatures.…

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with a little dustiness to the closed text block edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is darkened to the rear panel and otherwise bright and without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (8s 6d net to the lower front flap). The sixteenth crime novel by the sisters Constance and Gwyneth Little. Although unmarked as such, this example is one of the publisher's 'editorial department' file copies. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6. Eugenia Gates arrives at her friend Mary Fredon's apartment for a fortnight's quiet holiday and finds every prospect of rest destroyed - and then the bodies begin to appear. "Conyth Little" is a portmanteau pseudonym used on the British editions for the Australian-born sisters Jessie Constance Little (1899-1980) and Norma Gwenyth Little (1903-85), who produced twenty-one mysteries between them in a screwball-comedy register, all but the first with "black" in the title and a corresponding black clue in the plot. Minor toning/sunning to extremities of cloth; jacket spine sunned with some wear to ends. Book.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Set in an isolation hospital, where the sharp-witted nurse Norma Gale contends with someone - or several someones - inclined to take an axe to the furniture and, in due course, the occupants. "Conyth Little" is the portmanteau pseudonym used on the British editions for the Australian-born sisters Jessie Constance Little (18991980) and Norma Gwenyth Little (190385). Boards slightly softened at head of spine; jacket nearly price-clipped to inside front flap, small closed tear to foot of upper panel. Book.…

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's file copy. Original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the publisher's large 'File Copy' stamp to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is darkened to the rear panel and is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (9s 6d net to the lower front flap). Scarce. The seventeenth crime novel by the sisters Constance and Gwyneth Little, this example with a particularly pleasing provenance. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good+. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped. Marina Hays accepts an invitation to a country house for the weekend and finds herself entangled in two murders, a disappearing swimming pool, and a courtship conducted largely by being handed boards to hold while her suitor saws and hammers, and by being addressed as Maggie and Malvina in preference to her own name. Published in the United States the previous year under the title The Black Rustle. Cloth slightly softened and sunned at head of spine; jacket slightly tanned and worn at spine, price-clipped. Book.…

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding firm with some bumping to the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with toning to the wartime economy paper (pulp), one page with a vertical mark, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears to the edges and some darkening and a few marks to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap). The sixth crime novel by the Australian born sisters Constance and Gwyneth Little. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.…