Nash padder (10 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair. Ex-library with stickers, stamps, pocket, laminated cover. Large print. Medium tanning to pages and a few stains. Weight 11 ounces. Measures 7.4 by 5 by .6 inches. 102310. Detective Sergeant Albert Boggis and Peeper, his grass, are badly worried. Instead of filtering into the nick, the tip-offs are flooding OUT. There's a double-dealing copper at work, and the problem is - which copper.…

Zustand: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ.

Black hardback cloth cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. VG: in very good condition with rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). 173pp.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Large Print. Type: Ex-Library Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Near Fine. First Edition. A Fine First Edition hardcover in Near Fine dustjacket. Book has toned pages, a little tanned to the text-block edges, with light foxing to top edge. The bright, unclipped dustjacket is very slightly shelfworn - supplied in a new removable archival sleeve. Carefully packaged and posted within 48 hours from our wee bookshop in Scotland.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a file copy stored by Robert Hale on publication and is unread. some rubbing to cover due to storage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a file copy stored by Robert Hale on publication and is unread. some rubbing to cover due to storage.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. A crisp, clean, square and tight copy. Pages bright and completely free of inscriptions. Bound in clean cloth boards, housed in a matching, vibrant dust jacket featuring jacket photography by Peter Dobson. The jacket is completely unclipped, showing the original decimal price of £6.75 net, now preserved beautifully in an archival protective sleeve. The elusive first edition of this British mystery thriller from the highly unique "Grass" sequence written by Padder Nash. Running 174 pages followed by a two-page epilogue [ii]. True first-print copies from Robert Hale in this unblemished Fine/Fine condition are exceptionally uncommon due to small initial print runs and high library acquisition rates typical of the publisher during the early 1980s. Book and Author Backstory Padder Nash is a fascinating figure for completionist British crime fiction collectors. He wrote a highly specific, quirky sequence of mystery thrillers where nearly every single title integrated the word "Grass" into a clever pun or motif (such as Coup de Grass, Grass and Supergrass, Grass in Idleness, and Grass Makes Hay). Published in June 1982, this specific volume titled simply Grass acts as the foundational core of his bibliography. The jacket photographer, Peter Dobson, was a well-known regular visual artist for Robert Hale during the late 1970s and 1980s, lending his signature dramatic, atmospheric mid-century photography style to elevate the visual appeal of these mystery covers.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Wayward Seeds of Grass by Padder Nash First Edition Robert Hale 1983. A fine copy with no signs of previous ownership. Clean and unblemished throughout, covers completely unmarked. In original fine dust jacket that has no creasing, tears or loss. Not price clipped.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition / First Print. Hardback copy in black cloth boards with silver gilt lettering to spine. Unclipped dustjacket in new removable protective clear sleeve. 160pp. Signed, inscribed and dated by author in black ink to ffep 'Presented to the Library, / Lancashire Constabulary / Training School, Hutton, / Hall, with best wishes / from the author. / Nov. 1982 / alan Serwant. / (alias PADDER NASH'. Library copy 'Lancashire Constabulary, Hutton Hal Library', red ink stamp to ffep, rear endpaper and rear pastedown. (34/4). Dobson, Peter (dustjacket design) (illustrator). Signed by Author(s).…