John rhode pseud cecil street (13 Ergebnisse)

288pp. 8vo. Original red/pink cloth. A very good copy. First edition.

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

Zustand: 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. …

Zustand: 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.…

Zustand: Very Good. 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.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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.…

Zustand: 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.…

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.…

Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: 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. …

Zustand: 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.…

Zustand: 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.…