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London, England: Collins, 1947. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. VG-/Good+. Fourth entry in the author's "Dark Series" of spy-espionage novels, adapted into the 1952 film "Diplomatic Courier" starring Tyrone Power & Patricia Neal. A FIRST EDITION, first printing from Collins from 1947 (with orig. 4s 6d net price intact to lower front DJ flap), this hardcover 8vo… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1945. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. A very clean copy of the book in a slightly edge-worn wrapper. Near fine. A fast-paced suspense novel.

London: Collins, 1953. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Tight Firm Clean Copy - Reprint - No Signatures, Inscriptions Or Notations Discovered. Not Illustrated. Light Blue Green Cloth Hard Cover With Black Titled Spine - Sun Fading To Edges And Spine - But Otherwise No Observable Wear. Unclipped… Read more about this item

Collins, 1945. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1945. No edition stated. 192 pages. Signed by the author. Black and yellow jacket over yellow cloth. Flat signed by the author to title page. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Previous owner's inscription to front endpaper with pasted-down postcard. Faint creases to some pages. Boards have some moderate edge wear, with… Read more about this item

Collins, UK, 1972. Reprint. Hardcover. Good/Good. Hardcover. 192 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 1972. Reprint. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in good dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have mild soiling. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Dust jacket has moderate rubbing. Edges of dust jacket have superficial wear.… Read more about this item

Collins, Sydney, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/Good. Brown coloured cloth covered boards with black coloured titles to the back strip. Plaintext dustwrapper with black and white colour titles to the front panel and black colour titles to the back strip. Introducing Michael Kells. Softening and… Read more about this item

Collins, Sydney, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 192pp. Dustwrapper worn and chipped with loss to base of spine, and front top gutter.. Paper discoloured (war standard), otherwise good. Introducing Michael Kells. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Crime… Read more about this item

Collins, London, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Reproduction Dust Jacket. Hardcover. 192 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, London, 1947. *** CONDITION: The book itself is in good condition and comes in reproduction dust jacket dust jacket. More specifically: Covers have mild soiling. Edges of boards have moderate wear. Dust jacket is in excellent condtion. . Dust jacket is… Read more about this item

London: Collins. Very Good+ in Very Good dustjacket. 1947. First Edition. Hardcover. Jacket is price-clipped. The dustjacket is now protected in a new, removable mylar sleeve. ; Small 8vo; 192 pages .

Collins, Sydney, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. the dust jacket has chipping at the top and bottom of the spine, and at the top of the rear panel, and several short tears, the book itself is still sound, however the type of paper used has meant that the pages have all browned. … Read more about this item

Collins, Sydney, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 250 g; 192pp. Paper discoloured (war standard), otherwise , apart from minor discolouration to the cloth binding in good condition. Introducing Michael Kells. Size: 12mo (Small Hardcover). Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams.… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1972. slight wear to cover edges, otherwise book clean and tight. DJ:some wear. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

London: Collins, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Pale green cloth with green spine lettering, in the dust jacket. Lightly bumped corners and bumped at the spine ends, binding tight and the book clean throughout. The dust jacket is price clipped with very light wear to the edges. Nice clean copy overall.

Fontana, 1959. Paperback. Acceptable. 1959. First Issue. 192 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Neat, clean, with heavy tanning and foxing to pages and text block edges. Occasional thumbing throughout and mild cracking to front hinge. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Book is slightly curled.

London: Collins, 1946. 1st edition. Nice copy. small octavo. hardback with dust jacket 191pp., Nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket with minimal chips

Collins, 1951. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. reprint. jacket is creased, with a few tears on the edges.mild damp staining on the top edge. binding may have been repaired. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1945. First U.S. edition. Basis for the 1952 crime film noir "Diplomatic Courier" directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power, Patricia Neal and Stephen McNally. Very good or better with discoloration to lower corner, rear board; in good or better dust jacket with light soiling and rubbing, shallow chipping, and old internal… Read more about this item

Collins, 1952. Hardcover. Good. 1952. No edition remarks. 192 pages. No dust jacket. Beige cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Mild droplet staining to text block edges. Boards have light edgewear with corner crushing and notable marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, which has mild crushing to ends. Moderate water… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1945 Printed for the publishers in New Zealand. Red cloth stamped in black on spine. Tight, slightly tilted, half of ffep clipped away, tidy pages. Dust jacket is unclipped, a little tanned around edges, chips to spine ends and corners. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

England: Collins, 1951. Book. Good+. Hardcover. Spine slightly edge worn. Where possible small books will have postage reduced.