Results for: Bibliomystery


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Small bookstore sticker, textblock tanned; else clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket has light rubbing on rear panel; else clean and intact. Front panel extremely clean and bright. A Bibliomystery wherein Bony investigates the death of famous author and critic. Nice copy of scarce title
An Author Bites the Dust
Upfield, Arthur
Sydney AUS: Angus and Robertson, 1948.
Price: $395.00
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Scarring on endpapers where old jacket protector was evidently glued (none on jacket flaps, though). Mild toning; else book is clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket has slight loss on spine ends, several unobtrusive tape reinforcements; crease on spine; else clean and intact. Published in the UK as End of an Author. Bibliomystery concerning the disappearance of prominent mystery writer. Final page needs to be read in a mirror, an interesting device.
Death in the Inkwell (End of an Author)
Farjeon, Jefferson
New York: Bobbs, Merrill, 1942.
Price: $165.00
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Clean, flawless copy of book. Jacket has fade line on front panel, mild spine fade, Fraying, slight loss on spine ends; else clean and intact. $2.50 price on front flap and other First Edition points present. A bibliomystery wherein Wolfe investigates the death of the reader for a publishing house that the police have dismissed as a hit and run accident.
Murder By the Book
Stout, Rex
New York: Viking Press, 1952.
Price: $150.00
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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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Warmly and humorously inscbribed in year of publication to a prominent bookman. Light scuffing at base of jacket spine, else a flawless copy. Ex-British Agent turned bookseller is recruited by the "Anitquarian Booksellers Association" to investigate organized theft of rare books. Precedes US
A Cracking of Spines
Lewis, Roy Harley
London: Hale, 1980.
Price: $75.00
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Mild toning of jacket, spine darkened some; else a clean, fresh, flawlss copy. A bibliomystery of sorts concerning a bookseller who attempts the forgery of Lord Byron's burned memiors. Moore was a noted expert on Byron. Uncommon in collectable condition
My Caravaggio Style
Moore, Doris Langley
New York: Lippincott, 1959.
Price: $75.00
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Rinehart First Edition colophon on copyright page. Book has mild wear on spine ends, light toning, else clean, square and unmarked. Price clipped jacket has wear on folds, chip at head of spine, edgwear else intact. Biblio-mystery featuring Henry Gamadge, praised in A CATOLOGUE OF CRIME by Barzun and Taylor. Hard Cover.
Death and Letters
Daly, Elizabeth
New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc, 1950.
Price: $75.00
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A clean, flawless copy. Published in the US as Plot it Yourself. Wolfe investigates extortion of authors via phony plagarism lawsuits and murder ensues. The subject of plagarism was important to Stout, as he spent many years working to revise laws in favor of writers. An extremely nice copy, uncommon. One of only two Bibliomysteries written by Stout
Murder in Style (Plot it Yourself)
Stout, Rex
London: Collins Crime Club, 1960.
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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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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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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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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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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