glinto (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. This book is covered in neat, clear, removable plastic. The dust jacket has some wear. There are some tears and holes. The hard cover has some small holes on the front cover. Otherwise it is in good condition. The binding is sound. There are no loose pages. There is a small stamp on the bottom of the front, inside cover. There is some light foxing on the page edges. While yellowed, the pages are in good condition.

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Wraps. 8vo. Large paperback (12.5 cm x 18.5cm). Red and black covers. pp 160. Book was banned, hence scarce. Sound VG slightly used clean copy with short closed tear to side of front wraps and slight chips at front corners and lower end of spine. Text clean.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. 2nd Edition. Second Edition. Paperback copy in pictorial stapled cover, no dustjacket as issued. 160pp. In new removable protective clear wrap. Not library copy, no inscriptions, light marks to cover, light rusting to rear cover from bottom staple. Although the original 1941 date is on the copyright page, this edition from the Robin Hood Press, London (established in 1946) is a later publication, due to rear dustjacket advertisement for a Bryn Logan western called 'The Deputy of Squaw Rock', which was published in 1949. 'No Mortgage on a Coffin' was originally published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co, London in 1941. (37/2).

Softcover. Condición: Very good. No jacket. First edition. First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers. Another dark thriller by Darcy Glinto, exploring crime and noir tropes with a provocative narrative style. Very good. Book.

Softcover. Condición: Very good. No jacket. Reissue. Reissue. 8vo. Original printed wrappers. An erotic "rewrite" of James Hadley Chase's No Orchids for Mrs Blandish, which once again saw Kelly in trouble with the British authorities upon publication. A very good example. Book.

Hard Cover. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Dust Jacket. First Edition. (London: Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., Ltd., 1941). A Softback. A very cheaply and poorly produced book. About VG (very weak front hinge) in like creased, worn and torn D/W. This is the true first edition originally published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. in 1941 which was voluntarily withdrawn from sale by the publishers when both they and the author pleaded guilty to obscenity charges relating to two other Glinto titles ("Lady - Don't Turn Over" and "Snow Vogue") at the Old Bailey in May 1942 resulting in a fine of £200. Rare in first edition. The first edition was originally published at 1/- net (although it was reprinted in the late 1940's at 2/- with different D/W artwork). Photographs/scans available upon request.

Hardcover. Condición: Near Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Super scarce. This is a rare hardback first edition made even scarcer by a complete unclipped jacket. I rate it Near Fine because I am taking the age into account. It might even be unread. The protected jacket is usually damaged or missing, and the book is rarely found without sun damage, or with turned over corners. No owner names, not ex-library. A real pulp collectable.

176 pp, previous owner's stamp on front end-paper, pages browned, d/j spine foxed, else fine copy in like, illustrated d/j. Great sexy cover of femme fatale in loose red robe, barely containing her left breast from falling out.

12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall Hard Cover Near Fine Red cloth, gilt titles to spine, pp 160, covers lightly smudged, light foxing to edges and early & late pp o/w fine, dw price-clipped, dw corners worn and head & tail of spine lightly chipped.