Francis iles anthony berkeley cox (11 risultati)

Softcover. Condizione: As New. Re-issue of 1932 classic. ; 8vo 8" - 9"; 364 pp; British Library Crime Classics.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fair. 1st Edition. Fair first US printing. Lacking the dust jacket. Publisher's black cloth with . red embossed to spine and cover. Wear to spine and cover. Minor fading to spine. Binding still square but with some looseness to the hinges. Pages clean, with very slight age toning. Crease to bottom corner of pages 201/202. One of the greatest Golden Age works of British crime fiction, about Dr Bickleigh and the mysterious death of his wife. Stated First Edition on copyright page.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Cheap Edition. Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles First Cheap Edition Gollancz 1931. Pseudonym of Anthony Berkeley Cox. No previous owner's marks or inscriptions, contents and edges free of foxing. A bright fine copy, covers completely unblemished. In a near fine dust jacket with no fading or toning.…

Condizione: Usado - bueno.

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931. First Edition stated. Octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth binding; 290pp. Cover has minor shelfwear; crown and foot of spine rubbed; corners lightly bumped. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding sound. Overall, in Very Good condition. Published as part of Harper's "Sealed Mystery" series, in which books were published with the last few chapters sealed with a thin paper sheet stating "If you can resist the desire to know the outcome of this story, return the book to your bookstore with the seal unbroken and your money will be refunded." Alas, the reader of this volume could not resist and seal has been broken but the blue tissue paper remains intact.…

Condizione: Good. 1933. Second Impression. 352 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with black lettering to spine. 'Second impression May 1933'. Aspects of the story were used in the 1941 Hitchcock film 'Suspicion'. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Gutters somewhat cracked with some exposed netting. Binding is quite firm. Foxing and tanning more noticeable towards start and end of book and on text block edges. Prices in pencil to front endpaper. Occasional mild marks to pages. Slightly blotchy endpapers. Text block edges a little tanned and foxed with minor scratches. Boards have some edge wear (mild bumping and fraying to corners) while spine ends are moderately crushed. Slightly scratched, rubbed and dust-marked overall. A few liquid droplet marks and faint stains. Spine is noticeably sunned. Book has a pronounced forward lean. Subtle bowing to boards.…

Yellow card cover. Condizione: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition without dust jacket as issued. Cover creased, marked, chipped and sunned. Browning to pages and text block. Some creasing to corners. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 288pp. Anthony Berkeley Cox wrote under several pen names, including Francis Iles, Anthony Berkeley and A. Monmouth Platts. In 1930 he was a founding member of the Detection Club along with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Freeman Wills Crofts and others. Malice Aforethought is an early example of the inverted crime format where the crime and the identity of the criminal are known to the reader from the start. Mundanus was a short-lived imprint of Gollancz and published this paperback edition simultaneously with the cased edition.…

Hard Cover. Condizione: VG. No Jacket. First Edition. Undtaed, but 1939. 12mo. original pale blue cloth (rubbed & bumped, spine sunned, some spotting & marking, inscrip. to FFE; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 320. A very good copy of this uncommon psychological romance. The final novel by Anthony Berkeley writing under his Francis Iles pseudonym. Better known for his crime fiction, sales and critical reception for this novel were poor, after which he ceased writing fiction.…

Cloth. Condizione: Very Good Indeed. First edition. A very scarce, first hardback issue of this important 'inverted detective story'. Written by Anthony Berkeley Cox under the pen name Francis Iles. The first edition of this scarce crime fiction novel written by Anthony Berkeley Cox. The murderer's identity is revealed in the first line of the novel, which provides the reader with insights into the workings of the murderer's mind as his plans progress. Cox loosely based this novel on the real-life case of Herbert Armstrong and includes elements of Doctor Crippen.Issued under the Gollancz imprint of 'Mundanus' which they produced as a 3/- paperback series in an attempt to initiate a paperback revolution. This hardback edition was published simultaneously with the wrappers issue, as was a library issue. Copies of the hardback edition are extremely scarce.An extremely scarce copy of this important novel. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart. A few light marks to the boards. Bumping to the head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Scattered spotting to the fore-edge, and heavy spots to the first and last few pages. Otherwise, occasional light spots. Very Good Indeed. None (illustratore). book.…

First edition. First edition, first printing, preceding the cloth issue. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's yellow wraps. About Very Good, spine creased and toned, small tear along spine edge at foot, contents and wraps toned with age, corners a little bumped. An uncommon British mystery that is often cited as one of the best examples of the inverted detective story, in which the murderer's identity is revealed in the first line, "It was not until several weeks after he had decided to murder his wife that Dr. Bickleigh took any active steps in the matter.".…

FIRST EDITION, publisher's slip tipped in at rear 'To the Reader' (exhorting them to spread positive notice of the work through word-of-mouth), a couple of tiny spots at foot of half-title and the odd spot to border within, pp. 289, crown 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in black, edges spotted with a few spots to endpapers, dustjacket price-clipped with some very light handling and the odd miniscule nick, very good. Rather a scarce book. The author was by then well-established as a detective novelist under the pseudonyms 'Francis Iles' and 'Anthony Berkeley', but Hamish Hamilton - then a young publisher - probably anticipated the likely readership for this book to be a little smaller: it is, the author confesses, 'written in indignation' and addresses itself to 'the ordinary citizen' in decrying the state of the nation at a time of crisis throughout Europe (Cox considers the character of Communism and Fascism, 'simple-souled twins' with 'at least one arm in common'). As often, the analysis seems to all-too-current in respect of its assessment of our political parties and the behaviour of our politicians, who are characterised by 'timidity', 'incompetence' and 'petty dishonesty': 'The Roman Emperors knew that, if they did not keep their plebs happy, they would lose their jobs, and probably their heads. Our Pollies are not afraid even of losing their seats'. Throughout his literary career, Cox wrote journalism and published collections of his work in that area, generally of a light and humorous variety - the present critique is distinguished from these by its earnest tone, though it is far from dry and full of the wit and brio that characterises his writing generally. …