Nicholas blake pseudonym (29 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: FAIR, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher.. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 450). 160 pages. - BLAKE, Nicholas - Malice in Wonderland (Mystery; 1st Canadiana Paperback; Very RARE; Preceded by Penquin #592; Nice Good Girl Art "Swimsuit" Painted Cover of a Blonde lying on beach!; 6th book in Nigel Strangeways series); >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing;Front cover & several interior pages have paper tears, repaired with magic tape, story is not effected; spine wear; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover swimsuit cover. (illustrator). Book.…

Zustand: Very Good. 7 pages, illustrated. With list of books. This is an original article separated from an issue of The Book & Magazine Collector publication. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 14 x 21 cms. Category: Book & Magazine Collector; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages). …

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher.. VERY RARE EDITION. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 370). 160 pages. - BLAKE, Nicholas - Minute for Murder (Mystery; 1st paperback; Uncommon; Photo-Good Girl art-cover of a Blonde with a cigarette! "Where there's a Blonde - there's trouble"; precedes Pocketbook #548?; 8th book in Nigel Strageways series; One of his best novels); >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; slight spine slant; spine wear; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fernie (GGA) painted cover. (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair to Good, Reading Copy. First Edition By This Publisher.. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 450). 160 pages. - BLAKE, Nicholas - Malice in Wonderland (Mystery; 1st Canadiana Paperback; Very RARE; Preceded by Penquin #592; Nice Good Girl Art "Swimsuit" Painted Cover of a Blonde lying on beach!; 6th book in Nigel Strangeways series); >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; spine wear;1 1/2" piece missing from bottom of paper spine; corner clipped to lower right front cover; scuffing to interior front cover; stamp & pen to front end page; page 95/96 1/4 page missing, replaced with a photo copy, thus you are able to read the complete story. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover swimsuit cover. (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: GOOD Minus. First Edition By This Publisher.. VERY RARE EDITION. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 370). 160 pages. - BLAKE, Nicholas - Minute for Murder (Mystery; 1st paperback; Uncommon; Photo-Good Girl art-cover of a Blonde with a cigarette! "Where there's a Blonde - there's trouble"; precedes Pocketbook #548?; 8th book in Nigel Strageways series; One of his best novels); >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; 1/4" piece missing from bottom of paper spine; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fernie (GGA) painted cover. (illustrator). Book.…

Soft cover. Zustand: GOOD+. First Edition By This Publisher.. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 450). 160 pages. - BLAKE, Nicholas - Malice in Wonderland (Mystery; 1st Canadiana Paperback; Very RARE; Preceded by Penquin #592; Nice Good Girl Art "Swimsuit" Painted Cover of a Blonde lying on beach!; 6th book in Nigel Strangeways series); >> Cover creasing & scuffing; spine wear; spine slant; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. GGA {Good Girl Art} Painted Cover swimsuit cover. (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition By This Publisher.. VERY RARE EDITION. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 493). 160 pages. preceded by Pocketbook #742); >>This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; spine salnt; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Murray Smith Painted Cover. (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. First Edition By This Publisher.. VERY RARE EDITION. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 370). 160 pages. - BLAKE, Nicholas - Minute for Murder (Mystery; 1st paperback; Uncommon; Photo-Good Girl art-cover of a Blonde with a cigarette! "Where there's a Blonde - there's trouble"; precedes Pocketbook #548?; 8th book in Nigel Strageways series; One of his best novels); >> This is a reading copy. Cover creasing & scuffing; spine wear; Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fernie (GGA) painted cover. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardccover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Square and unmarked in red boards. Page edges toned. 192pp. Lightly rubbed jacket in a protective mylar cover. Size: 12mo - over 6" - 8" Tall.

Soft cover. Zustand: GOOD+. First Edition By This Publisher.. VERY RARE EDITION. (Canadian Collins White Circle # 493). 160 pages. preceded by Pocketbook #742); >> Cover creasing; cover scuffing; pen to interior front cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" Tall. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Murray Smith Painted Cover. (illustrator). Book.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. Dust jacket in good condition. Book club edition. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Binding and pages are intact. All pages are free from any markings. Light scuffing and bumping visible to boards. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Ex-library. Library stamps and markings. Front free endpaper torn out. Heavy foxing to page edges. Abrasion along upper 8mm margin of front panel of dust-jacket. Adhesive tape stains to boards and endpapers. Dust-jacket is price-clipped. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; 224 pages. Red boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 184 x 117mm. Crime fiction. "A professor is murdered in the American university of Cabot: his two half-brothers are among the suspects. Nigel Strangeways, who is staying as a guest of the university, finds a classic problem to exercise his detective curiosity and prowess." - from dust-jacket blurb. "'What on earth is a 'No Station'?' asked Nigel, reading a hugh overhead sign as they drove into the city." - the opening sentence.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York. 1957. 191 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Offsetting present to the endpapers. Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Nigel Strangeways was employed to investigate a minor mystery in the offices of the publishing house of Wenham and Geraldine. Someone had maliciously tinkered with the proofs of an autobiography in which a retired and outspoken General had savagely attacked one of his colleagues. Consequently the firm was threatened with a disastrous libel suit. Strangeways had not made much headway before somebody's throat was cut on the actual premises of that discreet and reputable firm. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages.…

Zustand: Very Good. Hard back binding in publisher's original pistachio cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered navy back, small blue illustrations to the front board. 8vo. 8'' x 5½''. Contains 176 pp with monochrome line illustrations throughout. Hint of foxing to the closed text block edges. Very Good condition book in Very Good condition price clipped panoramic dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ARDIZZONE, Edward (1900-1979). …

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Hardback copy in red cloth boards with black lettering to spine, no dustjacket. 256pp. Not library copy, no inscriptions. (23/3).

dj. [Crime Mystery] Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 6s. Stated 'First Published 1949. This edition 1952'. Contents clean, edges toned, some soiling to cloth which has offset to the inside of the jacket, which is otherwise bright and fresh with a gently sunned spine. The baffling case of a headless corpse found in the river Thames tests the admirable detective Nigel Strangeways. …

Zustand: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original pale green finely grained cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine, publisher's device to the front cover. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains (xvi), 156 printed pages of text. Off-setting to the second end papers where dust wrapper flaps where folded-in. Near Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper marginal line across the bottom edge and front fore edge, slight age darkening down the spine, without any chips or tears. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection. Member of the P.B.F.A. POETRY, VERSE & RHYMES.…

First Edition. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, some spots of foxing to page edges, no inscriptions. Covers have some fading, bundle string mark to upper. Very good. A Nigel Strangways detective novel. Eric Quayle; Detective Fiction, Cooper & Pike; Detective Fiction, p 33-35. …

dj. First Edition. [Detective novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.224. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Contents clean, edges toned, owner inscription to front endpaper, price clipped jacket with some chips and tears, gummed paper to reverse side at spine ends. Very good. One of sixteen 'Nigel Strangeways' mysteries from the talented and seemingly versatile Poet Laureate, who was an academic, literary figure, crime novelist, translator, critic, and father to actor Daniel Day Lewis. HUBIN; Crime Fiction IV p.148.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, so stated, January 7, 1948. Publisher's black boards, letterering is bright red, near fine in damp stained dust jacket, not affecting book and moderately to jacket. Jacket has light wear along top and bottom edges, lightly soiled, lightly chipped at head and foot. Jacket is not price clipped, $2.50 price intact, in protective mylar cover. Nigel Strangeways is seeing out the end of the Second World War at the Ministry for Morale. Surrounded by stories of victory and success, Nigel is itching to return to his life as a private investigator. But he may need to return to that role sooner than he suspects . . . Known as "Our Blonde" to the office, Nita Prince is the femme fatale of the Visual Propaganda Division. Rumored to be having an affair with the married director, tensions in the office rise when war hero, former co-worker, and beau of Nita, Charles Kennington, returns. Long missing and presumed dead, Charles's return sets the office buzzing with gossip and anxious anticipation. But when Nita is poisoned in plain sight at the celebratory gathering, the excitement quickly turns to suspicion: Anyone in that room could be Nita's killer. With six suspects to choose from, two spurned lovers on the scene, and government secrets at stake, Nigel will need to navigate more than just office politics to solve the case. Fisher, Carl (illustrator). Book.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. An unillustrated post card, apart from the letterhead. Addressed, with stamp and Paddington postmark, to 'Dr William Roberts / Briarlea / Mortimer / Berks.' The message reads: 'I vote for Osbert S. [i.e. Osbert Sitwell] as next chairman Soc. Authors [etc?] / Yrs / C. Day Lewis'. Image on request. …

dj. First Edition. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the black dust-jacket titled in white and orange, priced at 12/6. Contents clean, some toning/browning to endpapers, no inscriptions, jacket with very light wear to extremities. Near fine. Another case for Nigel Strangeways, which unfolds on-board ship during an Aegean cruise.…

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. An excellent near fine, square and firm copy, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the lightly rubbed and nicked price-clipped dustwrapper which has a few short closed tears with tape to the underside. An attractive example. (Hubin). 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 Edition. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's orange cloth with black titles to spine. Bookseller's discreet ticket to pastedown, some spotting to edges and prelims, owner nameplate to free endpaper, covers carefully handled, spine sunned. Very good. The author's second novel, featuring the return of detective Nigel Strangeways.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First US edition. The first Nigel Strangeways spy thriller, centering on the character's wife Georgia's discovery of a fascist plot to overthrow the British government. Uncommon in any edition. Orson Welles stopped work on an adaptation of Heart of Darkness to produce a film version of The Smiler with the Knife (the title comes from Chaucer) but the project never went anywhere. For more, see Louella Parsons' newspaper column, Letter from Hollywood, December 13, 1939. The poet (later Poet Laureate) C. Day Lewis wrote mysteries under the Nicholas Blake pseudonym. The novel was first published in England by Collins. [x], 303, [7:blank] pages. First US edition (stated). A good copy (previous owner's name on the front pastedown) in a good dust jacket. There is a stain on the front panel and some discoloration to the spine. The jacket has fading to the red ink on the spine and tears and light chipping to the edges, with tan tape reinforcement to the back (verso) at the spine ends. This copy comes from the library of the Lovecraft collector James Strand and has his estate bookplate.…

First Edition. [Crime Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.286; [2], advertisements. Publisher's brick red cloth with black titles to spine. Contents clean, edges and endpapers toned, no inscriptions, covers show some gentle use, spine sunned. A very good copy indeed, lacking the scarce jacket. The author's debut novel, introducing detective Nigel Strangeways.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. 1p, 16mo. On grey paper. In good conditon, folded for postage. Signed 'C. Day Lewis.' With 'personal' at top left. He apologies for the late response to the letter, and thanks her for 'sending me the fascinating poems by your son. I am so busy on my official work here that my correspondence is getting more and more out of hand. I do not know of any book on poetry which would be of use to a child of his age: as long as he is writing it so originally himself, I cannot think he needs anything more!' JISC does not indicate that the youthful prodigy pursued a poetical path. Image on request.…

See his entry in the Oxford DNB. The recipient is presumably the lyricist Peter Claremont Parsons. Plain postcard, apart from letterhead. In good condition, lightly aged. Image on request.Postmarked (from Paddington), stamped and addressed to 'Geoffrey Parsons esq. / 22 Westbourne Park Road / W.2'. Small signature: 'C. D. L.' Reads: 'Many thanks for Peter's Progress. [Parson's poetry book, published that year by Hand & Flower] I've read it with great pleasure & amusement, & fallen foul of little except 'legacies' rhyming with exegesis. My memory of those H. & S. [Hodder & Stoughton] interviews is chiefly of feeling intimidated by the interviewers & not having the remotest idea what to ask them: v. glad I lightened the ordeal for you.' With a little annotation in pencil. …

Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. London: Published for The Crime Club by Collins, 1940. First Edition. Octavo; orange cloth boards stamped in black; 284pp. + advertisements. No dust jacket. Light wear to boards with some very minor fraying; spine dulled; mild soiling; corners slightly bumped; binding sound; contemporary ownership inscription to preliminaries, else unmarked; a Very Good copy. …