conyth little constance (12 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Irene is mistaken for an escapee from an insane asylum, and with a headless nurse and a corpse that keeps moving, they might lock her up anyway. Reprint, first published in 1946. Spine sunned.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. A young woman runs away to become an actress in New York and ends up investigating the murder of two old maids at the boarding house where she stays. Rue Morgue review copy. Reprint, first published in 1941. Fine, as new condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Near Fine. No Jacket. Gloria escapes a murder attempt, has some plastic surgery, and returns, with a new husband, as Jane. When her first husband's new fiancee is murdered, each thinks the other is guilty. Reprint, first published in 1948. Tiny nick to the upper rear spine fold.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Fine. No Jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. By Conyth Little, pen name of co-authors Contance & Gwenyth Little. (London): Published for The Crime Club by Collins, (1948). First edition, SECOND printing. Selected for The Crime Club as a superior detective novel. The eighth entertaining, clever puzzle whodunit by the literate Australian sisters who moved to New Jersey. This entry is set in a house near New York, during a party gone fatal, where bodies appear and disappear. The front end-paper is attached to the inside front cover, fading and minor stain spots to the spine, chips/wear to the lower shelf-edge at the corner, black spine titles partially rubbed off, fading stain to the cover borders,else sound and about good in brick-orange linen; lacking a dust jacket.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Reprint. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, sunned at spine, cloth worn and marked, page edges grubby, no inscriptions. 192 pages.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition. 12mo. Pp. 160. Red-orange cloth, titles stamped in black on the spine: board edges rubbed, light soiling to the head edge. In the color illustrated dust jacket with Crime Club device, price 7/6 intact on the front flap: spine ends and back corners chipped with magic tape reinforcements verso, short closed tears, light soiling. The twelfth humorous murder mystery from Australian sisters Constance and Gwenyth Little who had a lengthy run as mystery writers mostly in their adopted home of Newton, NJ. Other than their debut novel (1938), "Black" was used in subsequent titles. (Their English publisher employed the pen-name portmanteau "Conyth.") Unlike many mystery novels of Golden Age Detection, their sleuths, whether a ballerina, a nurse, an heiresses, et al., are always female; the male protagonists serve as mere foils. Moreover, wacky, screwball plots prevail, fulfilling the publisher's promise of "homicide and humor." HUBIN, p. 216. Jacket preserved in a removable clear archival sleeve.

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. US hardback stated first edition. Good overall with some faint stains to bottom corner area of pastedowns and endpapers. Has the bookplate of writer Paul Tabori to ffep. No jacket.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 6.25 x 4.25", pict wraps, 189pp + publ. list, covers rubbed, lightly soiled and creased, pp toned; a good copy of the second mystery novel by the sisters Constance and Gwenyth Little (aka Conyth Little). INSCRIBED "To David, affectionately" AND SIGNED BY GWENYTH LITTLE; ALSO SIGNED BY CONSTANCE LITTLE. Gwenyth first mis-spelled "David" and has crossed it out above her inscription. SCARCE signatures!

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents with a little dustiness to the closed text block edge are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that is darkened to the rear panel and otherwise bright and without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (8s 6d net to the lower front flap). The sixteenth crime novel by the sisters Constance and Gwyneth Little. Although unmarked as such, this example is one of the publisher's 'editorial department' file copies. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's file copy. Original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine copy, the binding square and tight with a little bumping at the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with the publisher's large 'File Copy' stamp to the front endpaper are otherwise clean throughout. Complete with the rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is darkened to the rear panel and is otherwise without fading, loss or tears. Not price-clipped (9s 6d net to the lower front flap). Scarce. The seventeenth crime novel by the sisters Constance and Gwyneth Little, this example with a particularly pleasing provenance. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

First UK edition, first printing. Publisher's original orange cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very good or better copy, the binding firm with some bumping to the spine tips, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents, with toning to the wartime economy paper (pulp), one page with a vertical mark, are otherwise clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked dustwrapper that has several short closed tears to the edges and some darkening and a few marks to the rear panel. Not price-clipped (7s 6d net to the lower front flap). The sixth crime novel by the Australian born sisters Constance and Gwyneth Little. (Hubin; Curran, John: The Hooded Gunman). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. All items are catalogued by humans. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.