falkirk richard derek lambert (38 risultati)

Condizione: good. A copy that has been read, remains in good condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine and cover show signs of wear. Pages can include notes and highlighting and show signs of wear, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships via media mail.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. X-Library book. Standard wear to cover and typical library markings. Includes dust jacket. 100% Money Back Guarantee!!!

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Ex library.

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. Store Stamped. --- --- (The third book in the Edmund Blackstone Mystery series) --- Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, goes undercover to try to thwart a train robbery. . .

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Please see any and all photos connected with this listing. No Dustjacket. A bit scuffed but all pages intact and legible. Good reading copy. Clean. No store stamps. --- --- (The fourth book in the Edmund Blackstone Mystery series) --- Napoleon Bonaparte is now a tame captive on the island fortress of St Helena - or is he? When rumours grow of a plot for his escape, Blackstone is sent by George IV to investigate. He finds a buzz of suspicion and intrigue among the island's ill assorted population of restless garrison officers, coloured servants and ex-smugglers. Is there really a plot to escape -- Or is the ex-Emperor being slowly poisoned? Blackstone aims to find out. And then one night a 'monster' is sighted out at sea. . .See photos for additional content. . .

Hardcover. Condizione: Used: Good. A good copy with a tight and square binding. Text is clean. Blue and green boards are good. First front end paper has some erasures on top corner. Dust jacket has light edge wear. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First edition. London in 1820's and Edmund Blackstone must protect Princess Victoria. Light edgewear at bottom of cloth spine. Dust jacket has edgewear & small chips First American edition.

Hardcover. Condizione: Used - Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Dust jacket has been price clipped but was enclosed in mylar. Name of previous owner inside cover.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good+. First American Edition. Near fine copy with a tiny stain on top of page edges. Tight, clean, no markings, no bookplates, no remainder marks. In a near fine dust jacket. Previous bookseller price sticker on front flap. Flap price is NOT clipped nor covered up. No chips and no tears.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: About Very Good. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. The second novel in Falkirk's historical mystery series featuring Edmund Blackstone, a Bow Street Runner in London in the 1820s, this time given the assignment of stamping out the outlawed sport of prizefighting, a mission that leads him towards men willing to commit murder to stop him; the inside back cover has a short, crossed-out message, o/w the boards and text show some very minor shelf wear, and are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows wear at the edges, corners and spine ends, including several small, closed tears and a quarter-inch chip missing from the top edge of the front panel, o/w the dj is 99% whole with very little damage to artwork or design.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The Twisted Wire: Espionage and Murder in the Middle East This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Beau Blackstone by Richard Falkirk. Hardcover published in 1974 gy Stein & Day.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. First Thus. [London]: Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Ltd. 1974. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0552095184 Historical fiction involving Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, and the outlawing of prizefighting. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 136]. Very good with light cover rubbing/creasing, upper corner fold to one leaf, pages toned. See photos 6/5E.

Condizione: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing of the third novel in the "Edmund Blackstone" series. Light edgewear. In near fine / near fine condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 320 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st US edition. light foxing at page edges, else AF in un-clipped dust jacket ($6.95 price intact). England in early 1800's. Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, poured ale over his clothes, and rubbed his fingernails against the stone wall until they were cracked and jagged. Then he dishevelled his hair, rubbing a little grease into it. The whole process offended him but he persevered, massaging soil into his hands until they had a dirty polish about them, yet still they didn't have the saddle-hard palms which you got wielding a shovel for twelve hours or more every day. For that was what he would have to do to find out who had been stealing the wages of the railway workers and foil the plot to pull the first Great Train Robbery. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 1st US edition. light foxing at page edges, else AF in un-clipped dust jacket ($6.95 price intact). England in early 1800's. Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, poured ale over his clothes, and rubbed his fingernails against the stone wall until they were cracked and jagged. Then he dishevelled his hair, rubbing a little grease into it. The whole process offended him but he persevered, massaging soil into his hands until they had a dirty polish about them, yet still they didn't have the saddle-hard palms which you got wielding a shovel for twelve hours or more every day. For that was what he would have to do to find out who had been stealing the wages of the railway workers and foil the plot to pull the first Great Train Robbery. Book.

Condizione: NEAR FINE. First printing. Set in London in the 1820s, this introduces Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, of doubtful parentage and background. The first in a series. Historical note. 205 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket (an unread copy but toning to part of the textblock, small tear to back cover of dj at fold.).

Condizione: Very Good. First edition copy. . Acceptable dust jacket.

Hard Cover. Condizione: As New/fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: As New. First Edition. As new,apparently unread 1st edition.Pages and binding are tight and the green boards with silver lettering are pristine.The only sign of age is minimal spotting to lower edge of page block.The unclipped dustwrapper is as new,bright and has had a protective cover for some time in a private collection.

Paperback. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. David Pether (Jacket design) (illustratore). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in dark-blue cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine and black head of Blackstone to the head of spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and creased. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £1.75 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no creases, chips or tears. Extremities of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed. Spine of dustwrapper unfaded. Dustwrapper bright. ***224 pages including a one-page historical note at the back of the book. 204mm x 142mm. ***'But how else, Blackstone wondered, was he to discover who was behind the theft of the navvies' wages? Who stood to gain if the world's pioneer public steam locomotive railway, the Stockton and Darlington, failed to open? In chasing the answers Blackstone unearths a plot to pull the world's first Great Train Robbery.'' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'The Bow Street Runners were formed about 1749 when the Bow Street magistrate was Henry Fielding, the author of Tom Jones In Blackstone's time, around the 1820s, the Runners were at the height of their fame, but beginning to come under pressure from Sir Robert Peel, Home Secretary and founder of the Metropolitan Police.' (Quote taken from the back flap of the dustwrapper of "Blackstone", the first novel in the series) ***First impression of the true first edition of the third in the Blackstone Bow Street Runners series of crime novels in its original dustwrapper in nice bright condition. Written by Derek Lambert under the pen-name Richard Falkirk. Derek Lambert was a writer and journalist who also wrote books under his own name, and was foreign Correspondent for the Daily Express. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. David Pether (Jacket design) (illustratore). First Edition. First impression of the true first edition. ***Near fine in dark-green cloth-covered boards with silver titles to the spine and black head of Blackstone to the head of spine. Boards clean and unmarked. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed and creased. Corners sharp. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean. No foxing. No creases or tears. Light vertical reading crease to the spine. Spine tight. ***In a near fine colour illustrated dustwrapper, which has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of £1.75 net. The dustwrapper is complete with no creases, chips or tears. Extremities of dustwrapper just slightly rubbed. Spine of dustwrapper slightly faded. Dustwrapper bright ***189 pages including one-page epilogue to rear. 204mm x 142mm. ***'Blackstone's involvement in the lurid and exciting world of prizefighting also involves him with blackmail, kidnap, and murder, not to mention attempts on his own life. Moreover, rioting and the incidence of crime at prizefights had been put forward as evidence of the need for a new police force. so it is doubly important that Blackstone, the Bow Street Runner working on both sides of the law, should be successful.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***'The Bow Street Runners were formed about 1749 when the Bow Street magistrate was Henry Fielding, the author of Tom Jones In Blackstone's time, around the 1820s, the Runners were at the height of their fame, but beginning to come under pressure from Sir Robert Peel, Home Secretary and founder of the Metropolitan Police.' (Quote taken from the back flap of the dustwrapper of "Blackstone", the first novel in the series) ***First impression of the true first edition of the second in the Blackstone Bow Street Runners series of crime novels in its original dustwrapper in nice bright condition. Written by Derek Lambert under the pen-name Richard Falkirk. Derek Lambert was a writer and journalist who also wrote books under his own name, and was foreign Correspondent for the Daily Express. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. 320 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.59 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by David Pether (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£1.75), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 189pp. A novel of suspense and adventure, set during the early nineteenth century. Another case for the Bow Street Runner extraordinary. Blackstone is ordered to stamp out the popular sport of prize fighting. The second of Richard Falkirk's (Derek Lambert 1929-2001), Blackstone adventures.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by David Pether (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£1.50), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 205pp. A novel of suspense and adventure, set in nineteenth century London. At stake, the life of the future Queen Victoria. The first of Richard Falkirk's (Derek Lambert 1929-2001), Blackstone adventures, set in Regency London.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Jacket by David Pether (illustratore). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners very slightly bruised, not price clipped (£2.10), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 205pp. A novel of suspense and adventure, set during the early nineteenth century. Another case for the Bow Street Runner extraordinary. Napoleon Bonaparte, once the scourge of Europe, is now a tame captive on the island rock of St Helena. Or is he? When rumours grow of a plan to escape, Blackstone is sent by George IV to investigate security on the island. He finds a buzz of suspicion and intrigue among its ill assorted population of effete garrison officers, native servants and ex smugglers. Is the ex Emperor being poisoned? Blackstone aims to find out. And then one night a 'monster' is sighted out at sea. The fourth of Richard Falkirk's (Derek Lambert 1929-2001), Blackstone adventures.