General Besserley's Puzzle Box by Oppenheim, E. Phillips - 1935

Boston: Little, Brown, And Company, 1935. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. AZ652 Short note on ffep. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks..

Little, Brown, 1935. Stated first edition. Hardcover. very good/no jacket. NOT an ex library book. Book with orange cover, print in black. Slight fade on spine. Name on front endpaper. Clean interior pages.

Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. Hardcover. Good. 1935. First Printed. 283 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Light cracking and creasing to gutters; slight looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has heavier tanning with soft crushing to ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Hodder & Stoughton. Good with no dust jacket. 1935. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in light blue cloth with black titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, some green offsetting to pastedowns, no inscriptions. Nine short stories. 284 pages + 4pp adverts .

Hodder & Stoughton, 1936,. 1936. Hardcover. hardback reprint, brown staining on edges, text otherwise clean and sound, red boards, stained on board front edges, Good / no dustwrapper .

Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1935 Book. Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Minor shelf wear to red cloth hardcover. Small stain on top corner of front cover. Owner signature on front end paper. Dust jacket has some of edge wear and chipping and rubbing. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. 260 pp..

Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1935. General Besserley's Puzzle Box- E. Phillips Oppenheim- McClelland and Stewart, Toronto 1935- True 1st Edition-1st Printing-- Hardcover:- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall- VG/ no jacket- orange clth with black titles, still tight and clean, PO name in pencil on fep- 260 pages are clean, no tears or writing- SEE PHOTOS- a great enjoyable read- Fiction-mystery-adventure (4891). 1st Edition-1st Printing. Hardcover. VG/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Boston, Little, Brown, 1935.. First American edition ("May"). 8vo. Jacket design by Bip Pares. Dust jacket (unclipped; few small nicks; rubbing). Very good. 260 pages + 5 page bibliography. No signatures or bookplates. Hagen p. 291; Catalogue of Crime #2688.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1935. Hardcover. An edition in very good condition in a good dust-jacket. The dust-jacket has small tears and there is faint foxing to the pages; Cover design by Bip Pares. ; 8vo; 260 pages .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company. 1935. First US edition, first printing. First US edition, first printing. Original orange cloth with black lettering to spine and front panel, in the Bip Pares designed dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Previous owner's small printed address label affixed to the front free endpaper, (mostly) covering another owner's name written in ink. Softened to spine tips. Light fading to cloth edges and the ghost of the jacket design offset to the spine. In the original dustwrapper, lightly faded to the spine, with a few nicks and rubs to spine and corner tips. Correctly priced $2.00 to the front flap. A collection of nine stories featuring General Samuel Besserley, "[l]ate of the United States Intelligence Department, now living on the Riviera", who spends his leisure "unmasking hypocrites, bringing criminals to justice, or rescuing the young and innocent from the perils of Monte Carlo"… Read More