rhode john pseud cecil street (23 risultati)

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. First Edition. First edition( so stated). Who was the Funny Toff, the terror alike of criminals and Scotland Yard? A NEAR FINE book (small book seller's stamp to front paste down and rear free end paper) in NEAR FINE ( rubbing at corners and one small closed tear to base of rear jacket panel) jacket.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. First Edition. First edition .Near Fine book in a Very Good + jacket ( light shallow chipping to spine ends). Black cloth boards stamped in green. Nice example of the art deco style "Gene" illustrated jacket ! ** See our new cheaper postal rates to the USA and abroad.**.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American edition. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper else a NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD PLUS jacket with rubbing , some creasing and light soil to jacket; no chipping. Terrific cover art by H.A. Peace !

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. First Edition. First American edition of a title published first in the U.K. as "Dr. Goodwood's Locum". A NEAR FINE copy ( bumped at the corners) in a VERY GOOD + jacket. A PRESENTATION COPY. INSCRIBED , DATED and SIGNED on the front free endpaper in the author's tiny hand." For, R.W. Gibb, In happy memory of the M.V. Bualbeck ( ?) June -July 1952. John Rhode." A VERY SCARCE AUTOGRAPH probably inscribed to a fellow passenger on a cruise in Europe . M.V. is a short form for a cruise ship used on inland waterways .There appear to be very few instances where the author has autographed anything. No examples of his use of Miles Burton , Cecil Waye or Cecil John Charles Street! Signed by Author(s).

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's brown cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black; [8],294pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, spine slightly cocked, faint ring stains to upper cover, latter half of textblock toned (evidently the printer used two batches of stock of varying quality), else a Very Good, internally clean and sound copy. A locked room murder, the room in this case the victim's niece's bathroom. Forms part of the author's popular series of novels featuring the armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fair. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket. One of the last Lancelot Priestley novels by this prolific writer. A good copy in rather worn jacket with some minor loss. One of the last Lancelot Priestley novels by this prolific writer. Book.

256pp. 8vo. Original cloth in pictorial dustwrapper, a near fine copy. First edition, very scarce.

Condizione: Very good. First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price neatly excised from spine. The jacket's menacing photographic artwork enhances this early Dr Priestley title. An uncommon book in the original jacket. Contemporary ink name to front free endpaper, a little minor spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves; cloth very slightly sunned at spine; jacket with price removed from spine, a few small closed tears, but overall a very good copy. The jacket's menacing photographic artwork enhances this early Dr Priestley title. An uncommon book in the original jacket. Book.

Condizione: Very good. 'Popular Edition', second printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, with price-sticker '5/-' on spine. A decent, early edition of this the second appearance of armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who featured in a long-running series of novels during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Light toning to text-block, ink name to front free endpaper; cloth slightly sunned at spine ends; jacket with slight loss to spine ends and corners, some minor marking, but the upper panel complete and bright. A decent, early edition of this the second appearance of armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who featured in a long-running series of novels during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Book.

Condizione: Very good. "Popular edition" first reprint. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6 (second issue?). Browning to free endpapers, some light foxing; cloth slightly rubbed and sunned at head of spine; jacket with wear to head of spine, some other chips and creasing. Jacket artwork by Abbey. An uncommon early issue of this rare Rhodes title, originally published in 1928, the jacket featuring the original classic artwork by well-known artist Abbey; one of this prolific author's earliest books, set against a yachting culture backdrop. Book.

Condizione: Very good. First US edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00. A mysterious beam of light wreaks havoc in this Dr Priestley novel. Nice jacket artwork. Book VG+; jacket partly sunned with some rubbing, but still VG. A mysterious beam of light wreaks havoc in this Dr Priestley novel. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Ver good. Jacket artwork by Leon Louis desRosiers, Sr. (illustratore). First US edition. First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original grey cloth stamped in red. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00. Dr Priestley investigates a perplexing death at a motor show, exemplifying Street's intricate plotting and methodical detective work. Published as Mystery at Olympiain the UK. Leon Louis desRosiers, Sr. (18901968) was an American artist known for his contributions to book cover and dus- jacket illustrations during the 1930s. A couple of small tears to head of jacket spine, but otherwise a great example. Book.

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1928. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's pictorial green cloth; [10],308pp. Corners and spine ends bumped and lightly scuffed, textblock uniformly toned, else a Very Good and sound copy, albeit lacking the rare dust jacket. Locked room (well, hotel) detective novel featuring five yachtsmen, investigator Dr. Priestley, and the body of Dr. Grinling.

Condizione: Very Good -. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1957. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's red boards, black spine titling; 255pp. Boards rubbed and rather bumped along margins with brief exposure at corners and spine ends, occasional soiling to binding and textblock, textblock additionally rather toned due to inferior paper quality, spine a bit creased and cocked; a Good to Very Good copy, albeit lacking uncommon jacket. One of seventy-two detective novels pseudonymously written by Cecil Rhodes featuring the investigative prowess of Dr. Priestley.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good +. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth, orange topstain, in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($2.00); [6],262pp. Dust jacket extremities heavily chipped and worn with small losses along front flap folds and spine ends, corners bumped, hinges starting, old glue residue to front pastedown from previously-removed ex libris, else a Very Good copy in a Good or better example of the uncommon dust jacket. Crime novel involving a diamond heist, an unrecognizable body in a tar burner, and armchair detective Dr. Lancelot Priestley's genius to link the two. First published in the U.K. the previous year under the title Proceed with Caution.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1957. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's boards in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); [8],240pp. Moderate wear to jacket and board margins including a few small closed tears with subsequent creasing to the former, endpapers heavily foxed, else Very Good and sound.

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1940. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue-green pictorial cloth stamped in dark blue; [6],276pp. Moderate wear to cloth margins with brief exposure at corners, spine quite sunned, light soil to textblock margins not bleeding into text; a Very Good and sound copy overall. A Red Badge Detective novel.

Condizione sovraccoperta: dj. Second Impression. Octavo (19cm); flexible red cloth boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [4],5-207,[1]pp. Light wear, gentle sunning to spine and upper board edges, else clean throughout; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, shelfworn, with a few tiny nicks, tears, and attendant creases, and some dust-soil to rear panel; Very Good. Attractive wartime reprint of this novel, first published by Bles in 1930. HUBIN, p.344.

Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1959. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price ($2.95); [6],250pp. A few tiny chips to jacket margins, with a shallow dampstaining at head and tail, more visible to verso and not affecting cloth or textblock, and brief paper abrasion to jacket spine verso; red portion of spine panel faded, boards bumped at corners, else a Very Good copy of this late Dr. Priestley detective novel.

Condizione: Very Good. First Edition. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1934. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's yellow cloth, upper cover and spine stamped in black, yellow topstain; [6],250pp. A hint of shelf wear, spine slightly cocked, small bump to top edge of rear cover, else a Very Good, bright and sound copy, albeit lacking the scarce dust jacket. A Red Badge Detective novel. Both a locked room and a country house mystery novel featuring armchair detective Lancelot Priestley. Perhaps it's just as well this copy lacks the dust jacket: Dorothy Sayers complained in her review that the jacket gave away the solution.

8vo, pp. 192. Original red boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dust jacket. A fine copy in a better than very good dust jacket with a small smudge to front flap, slight fading to spine and a little light edgewear. First edition. A Lancelot Priestley title. Writing under the pseudonyms Miles Burton and John Rhode, the ridiculously prolific Cecil Street [1884-1965] produced four detective novels a year for thirty-seven years -- including more than seventy Priestley titles writing as John Rhode. HUBIN, p. 343.

Condizione: Very Good. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in orange, orange topstain; [6],298pp. Light shelf wear to cloth margins, very slight spine lean, front hinge a bit loose but nowhere close to splitting, else a Very Good, quite attractive and sound copy. The third appearance of armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, preceded only by The Paddington Mystery (1925) and Dr. Priestley's Quest (1926). He eventually appeared in sixty-nine more titles over the course of the next 35 years.

FIRST EDITION, poor quality paper browned, pp. 256, crown 8vo, original red cloth, lettered in black to upper board and backstrip with border and publisher's device stamped in same, endpapers lightly spotted with small pencilled ownership inscription to front pastedown, the dustjacket lightly dustsoiled overall and a little chipped and nicked, but in nice, bright condition, very good. Early work under this pseudonym by Cecil John Street, an espionage thriller set in wartime France - where Street himself served. A very fresh copy.