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Canada: Collins White Circle Pocket Edition., 1949. Book. Illus. by Line Drawn Cover Art.. GOOD, Decent Reading Copy. Soft cover. First Paperback Ed. & 1st Printing!.. 192 pages. *** " Norman Conquest - killer! The fact that the deceased is a double-dyed skunk does not make Conquest's position any less precarious.The Gay Desperado has been in many a tight corner before, but never one quite so tight as this.It takes all the efforts of his pretty young wife, Pixie, aided by Superintendent Williams - Sweet Williams to you - to hoist him out the soup.A miniature earthquake in Mayfair involving the sticky end of Double-Dyed Skunk No.2 and lots of high-pressure action lead to the breathless sort of climax for which Mr. Gray is justly popular. " >> This is a reading copy. Bend to lower edge of book; scuffing to top right corner of backcover;Creasing along spine & front cover; Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall..

London: collins, 1951 pp.192, blue boards, gilt Edged of page block and page margins yellowed. Good in a good protected dustjacket with wear to edges and corners and chips to bottom front spine corner.

Canada: Collins White Cirle 383, 1949. Solid with a two inch corner crease on the front cover, color fading on the spine, and the covers show light wear. The previous owner's name is on the first inside page.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Good- Very Good.

Collins. Good with no dust jacket. 1947. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very clean hardback in publishers binding of purple cloth with silver titles, a little sunned at the spine. 192 pages .

London: Collins, 1951 Blue boards, slight wear to corners, unmarked internally. Dust jacket is unclipped and unfaded, small chip to top edge, light wear to corners, protected in a removable clear film sleeve. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

London: Collins, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Fair. Good hardcover in Fair dustjacket with edge loss, edge tears and some creasing

Collins, 1951. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Collins 1951, reprinted. Binding firm. Pages clean and bright, no markings. Unclipped Dust Jacket.

Collins, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Good. .

London: Collins, 1951 published without endpapers, cheaper paper stock, reissue after 1947, pen initials to title page, 1/6 stamped to dust jacket flap, minor bookworm to first few pages, 192pp, book boards rubbed to edges, dust jacket has some tears, chipping and soiling (500 gram rate) . reprint. Cloth. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Collins first issue in this series, owner details to inside of front cover, some mild wear and rubbing to covers, undated but late 1950s? 192pp. First Edition. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Collins, 1947 (500 gram rate) owner details to fep, unclipped dust jacket with minor edge wear, slight chipping at head of spine, closed edges dusty, 192pp. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6? - 7? tall.

London: Collins. 1951 edition (first published in 1947). Blue covers; previous owner's name on the title page, natural browning of the paper. The dust jacket has wear at the extremities, protected by a clear, removable cover. Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics. . Good. Hardcover. First Thus. 1951.

London: Collins, 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo. Purple cloth with silver lettering. Bump to the spine foot, ink name and date to the front endpaper and the text block edges lightly foxed. Dust jacket a little darkened and scuffed around the edges and rear panel, chipped at the bottom corners, with light chipping to the spine ends.

London: Collins, 1947. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION, EX LIBRIS ANTHONY LEJEUNE. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.192. With a bookplate loose to preliminaries detailing provenance. Publisher's purple cloth with silver titles to spine. With the colour-illustrated dust-jacket, priced at 8/6. Browning and spotting to preliminaries; light rubbing to cloth. Jacket toned to spine, with large losses to head and tail; minor chipping and rubbing to edges. Very good. The seventeenth 'Norman Conquest' thriller, in a series which would stretch to over 50 books by the late 1960's. From the library of Anthony Lejeune (1928-2018), critic and writer for 'The Tablet' and the 'National Review.'.

London: Collins, 1949-1952. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 7" by 4.5". None. Four volumes from Berkeley Gray's Norman Conquest series. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Four works from Berkeley Gray's crime fiction series featuring Norman Conquest, including a first edition of Duel Murder. Found in the unclipped dustwrapper. Edwy Searles Brooks was a popular crime writer in the early twentieth century, writing under the pen-names Berkeley Gray, Victor Gunn, Rex Madison, and Carlton Ross. The series was published between 1938 and 1969 and follow the 'breakneck sleuthing' of Norman Conquest. In the publisher's original blue cloth binding, found in the unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, generally smart, with just some light rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Duel Murder is more worn than the other volumes, with some moderate bumping and light rubbing to the boards, a little loss of wrap to the head and tail of the spine, and a two-inch closed tear to the wrap at the rear… Read More