London: Victor Gollancz, 1932. First edition. Hardcover. 320pp, including the prelims. Some small spots to the prelims, to the text up to p.10, and to the final text page and the endpapers. Pages otherwise clean. Firm, in the original binding of black cloth, spine titled in pale green. Some soiling..... More

London: Nelson, 1954. First edition. Hardcover. 202pp, with a colour frontis and six illustrations in line. Contents fresh and clean and unmarked. Firm, in the original binding of blue textured boards, illustrated in line. Corners and spine ends slightly blunted. Upper half of the lower board faintly dappled with pale..... More

London: The Folio Society, 2009. First Folio Society printing. Hardcover. xvi, 225pp, with a frontis and five other illustrations by Sam Weber. Extremely fresh unread and unmarked copy. In the bright red and black (and silver) illustrated cloth: all bright and sharp, as new. In its equally pristine black slip-case..... More

London: Bodley Head, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 269pp: pages clean and unmarked: ownership name to front free endpaper. In the original binding of brown cloth-textured boards, spine titled in silver: corners and spine ends sharp. However, a 7mm strip along the bottom edge of the binding is sunned, and there's..... More

London: Ward Lock, n.d. [c.1953]. Reprint. Hardcover. 192pp. Pages very fresh and clean, like new. In the original buff textured boards, spine title white. Firm, bright and square, with slight blunting to spine ends. In the protected pictorial dust jacket. This is vivid to the front panel, and slightly faded..... More

London: Gollancz, 1967. First edition. Hardcover. 192pp. Contents very clean. Author's August 1967 gift inscription to front free endpaper (see photo). In the original bright red textured boards, spine titled gilt: very clean, corners sharp, very slight compression to spine ends. In the protected unclipped yellow dust jacket: very bright..... More

UK: Black Dagger Crime series, Chivers Press, 1987. First edition thus. Hardcover. [viii], 181pp. Fresh, clean copy, appears unread: text pages slightly toned. Firm in the original black cloth-textured binding, spine titled gilt. Bright, corners all good, head of upper joint slightly compressed. In the protected crisp, bright and fresh..... More

London: Herbert Jenkins, n.d. [c.1940]. Fourth printing (stated). Hardcover. 312pp + [8] advert pages. Pages firm, bright and clean: no inscriptions or marks. A wartime publication: the publishers' advertisements for other books by Plum include two which were published in 1940: so this printing must come between those and his..... More

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 222pp. Fine copy, clean, fresh and unmarked. Bookseller's miniature label to pastedown under jacket flap. In the original orange cloth, spine titled gilt: fresh, bright and sharp, without blemish. In the protected unclipped dust jacket. This has some minimal signs of handling..... More

London: Gollancz, 1961. First edition. Hardcover. 239pp. A book which has lived in a glass-fronted bookcase. Contents fresh and unmarked. Similarly the red cloth-textured binding, spine titled gilt: all bright, corners sharp, minimal blunting of spine ends. In the protected unclipped yellow dust jacket: slightly knocked to the top edge..... More

London: Nelson, 1936. First UK edition. Hardcover. [viii], 276pp. Contents fresh and clean like new. Faint tanning to endpapers, and with a gift inscription 'In memory of the best film you ever saw'. In the original binding of pale orange cloth, spine titled black: bright, corners good, spine extremities slightly..... More

London: Herbert Jenkins, [1931]. Fourteenth printing. Hardcover. 320pp. Contents clean and unmarked, with faint toning to pages. In the Jenkins orange cloth titled black, unmarked, bright and fresh, corners sharp, rear lower corner having a tiny indentation and, the foot of spine having been snagged, it is faintly puckered and..... More

Somerville, Mass., USA: Candlewick Press, 2017. First edition, with complete number line. Hardcover. 312pp. As new, unread copy, unmarked. In the publisher's black paper-covered boards, spine titled green. Corners sharp, spine ends slightly blunted. In the protected unclipped (unpriced) pictorial dust jacket: unmarked and crisp, with a minuscule pucker to..... More