Results for: Bibliomystery


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Scribner's "A" on copyright page. Advance Review Copy with slip laid in. A couple of nicks on jacket corners; else a flawless, apparently unread copy. Bibliomystery and second novel featuring Rare Book Dealer Dave Cannon. Advance Review Copy.
The Devil Finds Work
Delving, Michael
New York: Scribner's (Scribners), 1969.
Price: $35.00
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Book is flawless. Jacket has slight spine fad, light wear at extremeties, slight toning of whites; else clean and intact, $3.50 price on front flap. Humorous Biblio-mystery wherein two elderly literature professor buys a library of rare volumes, but the box supposedly carrying the volumes instead contains a young blonde corpse. The third story featuring Dr. Blow and Professor Manciple.
Body Blow
Hopkins, Kenneth
New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1962.
Price: $25.00
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A trace of fraying on spine ends, mildly rubbed rear panel; else a clean, flawless copy, apparently unread. First book to feature handwriting expert Jeff Green. A bibliomystery
The Diamond-Studded Typewriter
Keith, Carlton
New York: Macmillan Cock Robin Mystery, 1958.
Price: $35.00
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Endpapers offset, owners label on FFE, mild toning; else clean squaer and unmarked. Jacket is toned, foxing on flaps, slight loss on head of spine else intact. Murder in Concord, Mass literary circles, introduces Homer Kelly, a scholarly dectective. Witty, literate Bibliomystery.
The Transcendental Murder
Langton, Jane
New York: Harper and Row, 1964.
Price: $75.00
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Foxing on prelims and edges; else clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket has very light wear on spine ends, else clean and intact. A Mr. and Mrs. North mystery. A Bibliomystery involving the murder of prominent author in the New York literary world.
Murder Has Its Points
Lockridge, Frances and Richard
New York: Lippincott, 1961.
Price: $50.00
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Mild wear to board edges, light toning else clean, square and unmarked. Jacket has slight loss at head of spine, spine darkened slightly else clean and intact. A "Biblio-fantasy" set in China involving the quest for magic books. Translated from the German, this being the First English language edition, preceding the US
The Books of Emperor Wu Ti
Meckauer, Walter
London: Martin Seeker, 1930.
Price: $50.00
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