Bony Buys a Woman (The Bushman Who Came Back) by Upfield, Arthur W - 1966

Pan, London, 1971. Reprint. Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Photographic paperback binding with black and blue coloured titles to the front panel and white coloured titles to the back strip. Black and white photograph of author to the rear panel. An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) mystery. "Terror in the Sun.... deep in the Australian outback a woman is brutally slain. Her small daughter vanishes. Is Ole Fren Yorkey, the half-crazed wander, the killer? Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte must explore the bushland half a continent away from civilisation for clues. Only in the weird land of the willi-williv and the dread pointing bone can this dangerous riddle be solved." – from the rear panel blurb of the American edition. Rubbing of the book edges and panels with sunning to the front panel the spine is cocked and there is reading creases to the back strip. Browning of the text block edges and pages. Foxing to the first few and last few pages of the book… Read More

Pan, London, 1966. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. An Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte (Bony) mystery. "Terror in the Sun.... deep in the Australian outback a woman is brutally slain. Her small daughter vanishes. Is Ole Fren Yorkey, the half-crazed wander, the killer? Detective-Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte must explore the bushland half a continent away from civilisation for clues. Only in the weird land of the willi-williv and the dread pointing bone can this dangerous riddle be solved." – from the rear panel blurb of the American edition. Pan X586, reading creases on the spine, age toning of the page edges, very slight rubbing of the bottom edge of the front panel. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). (6), 5-187, (3)pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Crime Fiction; Australia; Inventory No: 0259906. .

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London: William Heineman Ltd., 1957. dj w/lite wear only, unclipped price, in mylar; gblue c w/gilt spine titles; 237 clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8 Vo.

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UPFIELD, Arthur. W.Bony Buys a Woman (Great Pan G272)Death - in the outbackPan Books Ltd., London, 1959, 1st thus., paperback, Gd+, 187 pp.No loose pages, no inscription or annotations, lean to the spine, binding sound, moderately tanned edges, dust stained, foxing throughout text block. Covers have light shelf wear with foxing to both front and back, gentle rubs to all edges, spine strip intact with 2cm and 1cm splits either side of tail and 2cm split to one side of head.FICTION, COLLECTABLE PAPERBACK, 1ST THUS, PAN BOOKS, CRIME, ARTHUR UPFIELD, MURDER, DETECTIVE STORY, ADVENTURE THRILLER, INSPECTOR BONAPARTE44601 hb 24 FIC/COLL PBACK/CRIME/U £11.50

London: Heinemann, 1957. Pp. [iv]+238(last blank); blue textured papered boards, spine lettered in gilt; price-clipped dust wrapper, designed by Bill Morden, edges lightly rubbed and split, the back panel slightly soiled and with number stamp near top edge, backstrip faded; bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, free endpapers lightly offset; Heinemann, London, 1957. First U.K. edition. Loder p. 234. *Inscribed and signed by Upfield (to Rob Blackmore) on the title page, and with the publisher's original pictorial order form loosely inserted (also advertising Follow My Dust). Published in America in the same year (apparently preceding the British edition) under the title The Bushman who came back. In 1962 another version of the story was published in Bestseller Mystery Magazine, Volume 3 No. 2, (Concord, N.H.) as Murder in Eden, rewritten and with removal of some of the British edition chapter headings.