jay williams michael delving (14 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st.ed. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Zustand: NEAR FINE. First printing. The fourth novel written using this pseudonym - but this one features Bob Eddison, Dave Cannon's partner as a dealer in old books and works of art. Bob, an almost full-blood Cherokee, is in England both on business and to try and persuade the girl he loves to marry him and leave England, when he winds up at a country auction and wins a small painting labeled as a 'copy' of a Dutch painting - and a collector who lost out tries to persuade him to sell it or swap it. 192 pp. Very good in near fine dust jacket (some spine slant).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: fine. First edition. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 174 pp. American rare book and antiques dealer Daev Cannon returns in this mystery novel set in the English village of Wade in Gloucestershire. Dave and his English wife visit the town to have a holiday and do some antiques hunting and Dave indeed finds one-a 13th century silver gilt casket. But that rare object entangles the Cannons in a complicated plot involving a River Severn tidal wave called a bore, a bizarre young poet, and ancient family---and a very modern murder.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Mystery featuring Dave Cannon, an American rare book and antiques dealer, who finds himself turning detective again when a Cotscombe dealer in antiquities with a slightly tarnished reputation is found dead at his desk. 170 pp. Dust jacket art by Colln Thomas. Near fine in a fine dustjacket (slight spine slant).

Zustand: FINE. First printing. Mystery featuring Dave Cannon, an American rare book and antiques dealer, who after a fruitless buying trip in Wales finds himself stranded in a border town where he is offered a bowl the owner claimed was the Holy Grail. The seller is found dead - hanged - the next day and Cannon finds himself in danger. 192 pp. Dust jacket art by B. H. Payne. Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Near Fine. First edition. Near fine with minor staining to endpapers, in a near fine dust jacket with the rear panel waterstained.

Zustand: FINE. First printing. The author's second mystery featuring Dave Cannon, a young American rare book dealer. Set in a small English village, the story begins with the theft of a silver chalice and involves a 'notorious Satanist', Tristram Vail. 210 pp. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (crease to corner of dj flap - overall, a tight and clean book.).

Zustand: Fair. Acceptable condition. Slightly dampstained. (vintage, mystery).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First British edition. Spotting on the page edges thus very good in a very good dust jacket with creasing, tiny tears, and rubbing.

First Edition. Antiques background. Slight spine lean otherwise VG in VG- jacket which has a little wear to corners and spine ends.

First Edition. Antiques background. VG in VG- jacket which has a little wear to the top of the spine.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. Second printing. Faint stain front fly, else near fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Gisele With love from Michael Delving and me - Jay (Miro, Miro, on the wall - who is the fairest of us all?)". Bibliomystery - Connecticut dealer travels to England to procure a medieval manuscript, encounters hostility and crime.

Hardcover. First Edition. Light toning to text block. A fine copy in fine dustjacket also with mild toning to flaps. A bibliomystery featuring Dave Cannon. ; Octavo.

First Edition. Inscription from the author in both names to a Gloucestershire woman in appreciation and referencing 'Ben-Penny' as where some of it was written. Ben Penny appears to be a property in the village of Amberley, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, England where many of the books are set, so it seems likely Williams stayed there when writing this, his first novel. VG in unclipped VG dustjacket which has just a little bruising to the foot of the spine.