Search Results: the gaunt stranger by wallace edgar

Hodder & Stoughton, 1111. Hardcover. Acceptable. No Edition Remarks. 320 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth board. Moderate crinkling and cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Clean pages with noticeable tanning and foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil and pen inscription to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Book has a moderate forward lean. Visible wear marks to boards.

Bern, Switzerland: Scherz (Krimi #897), 1988. Paperback. FINE. As new - gift quality! Text in German. "Der Hexer is en Meister der Verwandlung. Niemand kennt ihn, niemand weiss, wie eer aussieht…." Text in German. 4.5x7x.75" (11.5x18x1.75cm) 190 pages.

London, Hodder 7 Stoughton, nd ; (c 1920's);. HBk; Good/ No dj; 320pp; Red covers with black motif & title on front; covers a bit soiled, internally better than good. .

London: Hodder & Stoughton. Undated thick edition. Red cloth, titled black. Small picture on upper board . Very Good. Hardcover. reprint.

Toronto & Winnipeg: Harlequin Books, 1957. First Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. This book was originally published in 1925 as "The Gaunt Stranger". This is the first Harlequin-Pan printing. The interior of the book is clean and complete, with slightly darkened paper. The card covers show light wear, but are overall in very good condition. The attached scan gives a better idea of condition. Synopsis: The Ringer is a killer who has terrified London, but his mastery of disguise has kept his real identity a secret. Maurice Meister was a tricky lawyer mixed up with the Ringer. Now young Detective-Inspector Alan Wembury is taking over the Deptford police division, and is hoping to marry Mary Lensley, who has recently become Meister's secretary. Meister, who had failed to protect The Ringer's sister during his absence, will be the next victim, and Wembury is drawn into a fierce battle with a criminal mastermind.

Hodder & Stoughton, London, undated, c.1930,. Good. 1930. Hardcover. hardback reprint, 8vo, 320pp. edges browned and slight foxing, otherwise clean and sound, no inscriptions, red cloth, black titles, edges rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

London; Hodder and Stoughton Hard cover, 320 pages

London: Hodder. Undated first edition. Publishers yellow cloth with silhouette of man looking around a corner on upper board. Publishers red circle device on spine. Titled in black. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1925.