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London: Gollancz, 1950. Book. Good. Cloth. Sixth Impression. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with brown titles to the spine, some edge wear, a little bumped. A classic early 20th C collection of some of the great detective/mystery short stories of the period. A thousand pages of supurb works. First puiblished in 1934..

Hardcover. Good. Offered by the charity Langdon supporting people with disabilities.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963 Reprint in hardcover with dust jacket. Pages tanning, some warping to front board. Jacket is price clipped on rear flap, some tape at spine ends running onto the panels. Very Good/Good.

Covent Garden: Victor Gollancz Ltd 1959, 17th impression. (Hardcover) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 619pp. The dust jacket is lightly soiled along the spine with minor edgewear and two small closed tears to the front panel. Second volume of a 2-volume set. Vol. 2 Mystery and Horror Great Short Stories of Detection. (Mystery, Detective Fiction, Horror, Mysteries).

London: Gollancz, 1931. 10th printing, 1961. HC w DJ. PC VG/Good+. Light blue cloth, light edgewear, dulled to edges & spine, gilt spine titling, leaves age-toned, binding sound, unmarked. DJ (10/6 Cheap Edition) edgeworn w nicks/chips, some loss to tips, toned, now in Brodart. PLEASE NOTE: We are happy to provide photos. Please contact us for any specific requests. BUYING AND SELLING USED AND RARE BOOKS FROM HISTORIC EAST NASHVILLE SINCE 2012.

Victor Gollancz. Hardcover. Good. Used good.

Victor Gollancz, London, 1931,. 1931. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 1147pp, penciloled owner's name on endpaper, page edges browning and slight foxing, text otherwise clean and sound, inner hinges cracked but holding, black cloth, red titles, rubbed, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

Victor Gollancz, 1929T. hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. 1928 first edition slightly loose binding on black cloh with ex libris plate to end paper

Victor Gollancz, 1947. Thirteenth impression. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Thirteenth impression, 1947. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

London : Victor Gollancz Limited, 1934. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Bumped corners. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 1069 pages ; 19 cm. Contents: The perfect murder / Stacy Aumonier -- Stain! / Alex. Barber -- The bullet / J.J. Bell -- The mystery of the child's toy / Leslie Charteris -- Poker-face / Carl Clausen -- The level crossing / Freeman Wills Crofts -- The brown sandwich / St. John Ervine -- The judge corroborates / J.S. Fletcher -- The echo of a mutiny / R. Austin Freeman -- The perfect crime / Ormand Greville -- No man's hour / Laurence Kirk -- Blind justice, etc. Subjects: Detective and mystery stories; Short stories, English; Horror tales; Nouvelles anglaises; Récits d'horreur.

London: Gollancz, 1947. 13th imp.. Very nice copy. octavo. hardback with dust jacket 618pp., appendix, 29 stories. Very nice copy in bright blue boards in a very nice dust jacket

Victor Gollancz, 1931T. hardcover. Acceptable. 4.5965 in x 18.1862 in x 13.3898 in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Well read with some wear but still very useable.

London: Victor Gollancz. Good+ with No dust jacket as issued. (1939). Hardcover. A 25mm tear at tail of rear joint. Some foxing. Previous owner's rubber name stamp on title page. ; 11th impression (first edition of the two-volume form) July 1939. This is volume two only of a collection of stories that was originally published in single volume in 1928, and reprinted as a single volume up to the tenth impression of 1937. 619, [1 (blank)] pages. Red cloth boards with black lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 121mm. .

London : V. Gollancz, 1952. Reprint. Hardcover. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 476 pages ; 19 cm. Subjects; Horror tales. Detective and mystery stories. Short stories, English. English literature; 20th century.

Twelfth impression. Includes Stories of the Supernatural (Ghosts, Vampires, Witchcraft etc.) and Stories of the Human and Inhuman (Disease, Madness, Cruelty etc.). Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Binding tight with light bumping to corners. Slight sunning to edges. Pages age toned. Previous owners name to front pastedown. Gollancz yellow jacket not clipped (no price) with moderate edgewear with small chipping to spine ends, light edge creasing, spine sunned and spotting to back panel. Not ex-library. 619 pp. All books are individually described. All overseas orders are sent airmail by Royal Mail International Tracked.

London : Victor Gollancz, 1947. HARDCOVER . (Orig.publisher's blue cloth. Gilt. title, Nice bookplate. Cover vague stains. VERY GOOD) Collector's item! Rare and sought after edition.

Victor Gollancz, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Good. in x in x in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback/Hardcover. Clean copy in good condition. FIFTHTEEN IMPRESSION.

Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1947-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. No dust jacket - Name and dedication to inner front cover and first inner page. Pages are tanned. Pages have no notes or highlighting. The spine is faded. There is creasing/wear to the cover.

1947. Victor Gollancz Ltd. London. 1947. Thirteenth impression of first edition. Incomplete DW. Spine sunned, pages browned otherwise a sound copy in a very faded, torn and worn wrapper with tape marks and front panel has separated from spine. SCARCE.

London: Victor Gollancz ltd., 1931. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.1147; [5]. Publisher's black cloth over boards, red titles to spine. Leaves lightly toned, spotting to a couple. Minor splashing to top margin starting around page 410. Ownership inscription in pencil to flyleaf. Top edge toned. Binding rubbed, with some fraying to joints and extremities. Toning to titles on spine. Very good. Featuring sixty-seven short tales by authors such as Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Algernon Blackwood, and Edgar Allan Poe. Edited and arranged by Dorothy L. Sayers, one of the four queens of crime.