higgs sexton (3 risultati)

1st edition. Condizione: vg+/vg+. 1st edition Galley Press 1987 1st printing hardcover, vg++ book in vg+ dw, nice copy In stock shipped from our UK warehouse.

Introduction by Norman Wright. Designed & compiled by Mike Higgs. Pp. 290(last blank), 16 tinted plates, black & white text illustrations (some in cartoon strip format); tall cr. 4to; maroon boards, lettered and decorated in gilt, the top fore-corners of boards and the bottom edge of upper board slightly bruised; dust wrapper, edges a trifle rubbed and split; the text block faintly browned, edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Hawk Books, London, 1989. *'The Sexton Blake Library provided fine detective and adventure fiction to the Great British Public for well over half a century. The hero of these stories became a household name and deservedly takes his place amongst other heroes of fictional folklore. In this volume, the first four library novels are reprinted for the entertainment of all lovers of vintage detective fiction' [wrapper blurb]. The stories are: The Yellow Tiger; Ill-Gotten Gains; The Shadow of His Crime; The Rajah's Revenge; plus a comic strip, The League of Crime.

A collection of adventures featuring the ul otherulnone world famous detective. Pp. 298, title page vignette, facsimile pictorial upper wrapper, pictorial head & tailpieces and free endpapers; tall cr. 4to; dark blue boards, lettered in gilt; dust wrapper, edges a trifle split; the text block slightly browned, outer leaves and edges faintly foxed; Galley Press, London, 1987. First edition thus. *Includes The Missing Millionaire, the first Sexton Blake story, first published in the Halfpenny Marvel in 1893.