john mervyn smith (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 144 pages. 8.00x5.00x0.34 inches. In Stock.

Softcover. Zustand: Fine. Periodical. Stapled wrappers. 112pp. Fine. A collection of poems, letters, essays, and reviews by Simon J. Ortiz, Grey Cohoe, Duane Niatum, Ronald H. Bayes, Sam Ragan, Dan Jaffe, Millen Brand, Sonja Prins, Norman Macleod, Emily Mae Murphy, Carl Rakosi, Soni Martin, Beth Jackson, Eugene Toran, Pinkie Gordon Lane, Margaret M. Shepherd, Kregg Spivey, Ian McDonald, Samuel C. LaFleur, Kenneth Pauli, Kathleen S. Platt, Jay Barrington, James Schevill, Frederick Eckman, Hugh Miller, Van K. Brock, D.V. Smith, Joseph Epolito, Richard Vela, Elvoy Raines, D.M. Pettinella, Mervyn Morris, Don Sears, W.E. Ryan, Mary F. Hatchell, William Lane Hudson, Jr., Grace E. Gibson, R.W. Reising, Gavin Bantock, Jane Mayhall, Murray K. Morton, Dick Barnes, Phyllis Wood, Hugh Macdiarmid, Michael Paul Novak, William Page, Mike Doyle, James Hoggard, Johnnie Herring, Leondard Nathan, Grace Herman, Linda Lloyd, Peter Wild, Walter Griffin, Stephen G. Smith, Paula Rankin, Jean Baptiste, Donald R. Swanson, Vickie D. Green, Tim Tourtellotte, Thomas Michael Fisher, John Filiatreau, William Peden, Brom Weber, Guy Owen, Eric W. Gregory, Joseph Kalar, and Michael R. Brown.

Softcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Periodical. Stapled wrappers. 100pp. Spine lightly age-toned, corners rubbed, near fine. Laid in is an Inscribed letter by contributor Norman MacLeod and addressed to poet and contributor Daniel Hoffman. Additionally, laid in is an invitation to the fourth Gregory Award being given to Norman Macleod. An interesting association copy. "Amerindian Poetry by Simon J. Ortiz, Ray Young Bear, West Indian Poetry by Ian McDonald, Faustin Charles, Basil McFarlane, Jean Baptiste, Lights from Galapagos by Kregg Spivey, An Introduction by Thad Stem, Jr. to a Poem by Robert McAlmon, R.J. Rundus on the Fiction of Guy Owen, Henry Berry Lowry: Lumbee Symbol by David K. Eliades, Poems by Arthur Gregor, Philip Levine, Endre Ady, Hugh Macdiarmid, Peter Wild, William Stafford, Daniel Hoffman, Nancy Vodvarka, Margaret M. Shepherd, Stanley Noyes, Kurt Johnson, Macleod: American Bunting by Ronald Vela, Grace Gibson, Art by Kris Hotvedt, Von Lehn, Seymour Tubis, Grey Cohoe, Wenceslaus Riley, and Courtney Moyah.".

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. None (illustrator). First edition. A smart collection of thrilling crime novels from the Collins Crime Club. Seven volumes. The Crime Club. This set includes: Mystery at Olympia, 1935. First edition. Scarce. A novel featuring armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who is quick to take up the case when a spectator falls dead with no clear reason at an annual motor show held at London's Olympia. Written by Cecil Street, under the pen name of John Rhode, an British crime fiction novelist and a major in the British Army. Fourfingers, 1939. First edition. Very Scarce. The second in the trilogy of Detective Sergeant Venn and Constable Kither novels. When the body of celebrated author Carla Waterlow is found in a car on Marton Common, it is clear she has been shot through the heart. Before long, two more bodies are discovered and the investigation grows more complex. Written by Alister McAllister, under the pen name of Lynn Brock, an Irish writer known for his mystery novels. Come and Be Killed!, 1946. First edition. Florence Brown was a shy women living close to her sister Phoebe, a confident and attractive actress. Suffering badly from depression, her doctor instructs her to take a "holiday" at a nursing home where she finds herself in the company of Mrs. Jolly. Weeks go by with no trace of Florence, so it is left to Phoebe, with the help of Inspector Johnson, to decipher who the mysterious woman her sister befriended really is. Written by Nancy Hermione Courlander Bodington, under the pen name of Shelley Smith, a British crime novelist. The Megstone Plot, 1956. First edition. Scarce. A gripping suspense novel following a man and his mistress as they weave an intricate plot to make a fortune. Later adapted for film and titled 'A Touch of Larceny.' Written by Paul Winterton, under the pen name Andrew Garve, an English journalist and crime novelist. End of Chapter, 1957. First edition. The twelfth in a series of novels featuring private detective Nigel Strangeways. Called in by a publishing house to investigate a retired general's wartime memoirs which controversially criticize public figures, Strangeways needs to work out which member of staff has tampered with the manuscripts. Written by Cecil Day-Lewis, under the pen name of Nicholas Blake, an Anglo-Irish poet who was Poet Laureate from 1968 to 1972. He also wrote mystery stories many of which feature fictional detective Nigel Strangeways. Woman of Straw, 1957. When playboy Tony Richmond schemes to acquire the fortune of his tyrannical tycoon uncle with the help of his new maid, she becomes the prime suspect in the murder investigations. Adapted for film in 1964, starring Gina Lollobrigida and Sean Connery. Written by Pierrette Henriette Denise Marthe Pernot better known professionally as Catherine Arley, a French novelist and actress. Translated by Mervyn Savill, a British translator, writer, and editor. Kill or Cure, 1968. First edition. When a private detective and a health specialist accidentally solve a murder during their time at a charming resort, the last thing they expect is for there to be another murder. Written by Joan Fleming, a British author of crime and thriller novels who won the Gold Dagger award twice. In the original red cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and minor bumping to the extremities. Light fading to the spines with further discolouration of the cloth to Mystery at Olympia, Four-Fingers, and Come and Be Killed. The odd mark to the boards with light fraying to the extremities of Mystery at Olympia and minor loss of the cloth to the extremities of Fourfingers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Light age toning to the endpapers. Contemporary ink inscriptions to the front endpaper or pastedown. Bookseller's label to the rear pastedown of Mystery at Olympia. Very Good. book.