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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Dust jacket worn with rub marks, scuffs, etc. A nice copy of book with only light wear. Book.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. The mistress of an eminent surgeon suggests he take a poor medical student into his home, expecting his wife to begin an affair with the student and be forced to accept a divorce. When one of the four is murdered, Commissaire Faure investigates a crime in which any of the suspects could have been killer or victim. Winner of the 1966 Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. First U.S. edition. Spine ends gently bumped. Jacket rubbed with small chips and tears, in Brodart.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good to Very Good. Touched Up PHOTO Cover! (illustratore). 1st Edition. 158 pages. "Footsteps echoed through the dark streets of Istanbul. Gregory drew back into the shadows and danged the cold steel from his long fingers. He did what he called 'the balancing', weighing the knife in his hand to test its equilibrium and feeling a sort of electric current run up his arm to his shoulder. Suddenly, the man was almost on him. He was running in a curious flat-footing fashion, trying to be as quiet as possible. Gregory watched him come. His right hand rose and flashed forward with terrific violence. There was a short, almost inaudible, hissig sound. A dull thud. A death rattle." RARE Title; >>> Store stamp on inside first page. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. First ENGLISH Language Paperback Edition. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed, small skinned patch to top of spine (removal of sticky label?), not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg++ copy for its age. 176pp. Christophe Chalvet takes up his first practice as a doctor in a village on the Algerian coast, where he meets the beautiful, irresistible, married Lorenza, with dramatic and violent consequences. Frederic Valmain was a prolific French thriller writer but his true identity is a mystery, although at one time Valmain was thought to have been a pseudonym for the actor and screenwriter Frederic Dard. A mysterious book by a most mysterious author.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Jacket by Pino Dell'Orco (illustratore). 1st Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, corners slightly bruised, spine very very slightly faded, old charity stamp and some 'scrape' marks to ffep (removal old sticky label?), some slight yellowing to page block, not price clipped (21s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 223pp. A French tramp steamer is sunk in the Atlantic and the survivors picked up by supposedly Swedish merchant ship, however, the French captain become suspicious and the rescue vessel turns out to be a German supply ship, in itself later disabled by a British destroyer. A powerful and suspenseful novel of naval warfare and deception during WW11. I have been able to find out very little about author Francois Ponthier, beyond the fact that he probably was a sailor. A scarce book.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black and white check cloth covers, scarlet title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. ISBN 245598146. Contains 328 printed pages of text. Without any ownership markings. Near Fine condition book, in Very Good condition price clipped dust wrapper with small tears and rubs to the spine ends and corners. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, this protects and prolongs the life of the paper, it is not adhered to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MODERN FIRST EDITIONS.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original powder blue cloth covers, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains 168 printed pages of text with 8 monochrome photographs throughout. From the 'Silver Library Ltd.,' with stamps to the end papers. Very Good condition book in Good condition dust wrapper with small chips to the spine tips and corners, not price clipped, 7/6. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. SPECIAL OPERATIONS [S.O.E.].