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A FINE ITALIAN HAND (inscribed)
Edition: First printing
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1992. Inscribed by Author; Cloth and boards. Fine in fine jacket. Inscribed by the author "For Ray, with best wishes, Eric Wright". An Inspector Charlie Salter crime novel set in Toronto. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 52332More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A RAFT OF SWORDS
Edition: First Printing
London: Collins, 1974. Black boards. Fine. Price-clipped jacket has one short corner tear, slight rubbing to spine ends, soft creases to front flap, else fine. A thriller novel set in Vancouver, BC, and just offshore. Russians, mini-subs. ; Octavo
Book ID: 54708More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A SINGLE DEATH
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Collins, 1986. Advance copy for review with dated slip pasted in. Red boards. Fine copy. Dust jacket has a very small skinned spot to front panel, soft ripples to rear panel, VG otherwise. Inspector Charlie Salter. Toronto setting.
Book ID: 43767More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ARE ALL MEN ALIKE and THE LOST TITIAN. Twin Tales
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1921. Blue cloth lettered and ruled in orange. 1929 ink name at front; newspaper clipping of Stringer pasted to verso of tiitle leaf with some consequent offset yellowing to facing page; page edges tanned; VG otherwise.; Octavo
Book ID: 52361More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
BLOODY INSTRUCTIONS
Edition: First printing
London: Crime Club / Collins, 1962. Author's first book. Red boards. Faint sunning to upper inner corner of front cover; short tear (1/4 inch max) and tiny hole to lower edge of pp 201-12 ; else a fine copy, no owner names. Black dust jacket has slight sunning to the red portions of the spine; 1.5 inch tear and crease to upper inner corner of front panel; slight soiling to white rear panel; light rubbing to front panel, front flap fold; else VG, flap price intact. Woods has long lived in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she began writing, but has set all of her novels in her native England.
Book ID: 9713More details Price: USD $40.00 USD $36.00 -
BLUE PETE: REBEL
Edition: First printing
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1940. Orange cloth lettered in black. pp 286, (2, ads). Front cover a little bowed; offset tanning to free endpapers; occasional light foxing in text; VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. A crime story set in Western Canada. RCMP interest. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51105More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
BROKEN PROMISE
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 2015. Paper issue in card covers. Fine copy of this thriller novel. ; Octavo 038568374X
Book ID: 52671More details Price: USD $11.95 USD $10.76 -
BROKEN WATERS
Toronto: Copp, Clark, (copyright 1925). A later printing. Green cloth stamped in black. 294, [2] pp. Xmas, 1936, ink gift inscription to front free endpaper, spine has the slightest of sunning, else fine. Dust jacket has short creased tears to head of spine and top edge of rear panel; shallow chip to head of lightly darkened spine (no printing lost); creased tear to lower outer corner of rear panel; else VG, still quite attractive. "The Thrill of the Paris Underworld and The Spell of Tropic Isles." - jacket.
Book ID: 16322More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
CALL BACK YESTERDAY
Edition: First printing
London: Macmillan, 1983. Terra cotta boards. Text paper a bit yellowed; slight foxing to top pag edges; small light soil spot to fore edges; else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Woods began writing crime novels after moving from England to Nova Scotia, Canada, though they are all set in England.
Book ID: 7099More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
CALL BACK YESTERDAY.
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1983. Orange boards. Cheap text paper yellowed, else fine. Black jacket slightly rubbed to rear panel, rear flap fold, outer corners; half inch creased tear to front panel; VG otherwise, no chips or clips. Woods has lo ng lived in Nova Scotia, Canada, but all her novels have been set in her native England.
Book ID: 9714More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
CALL FOR THE SAINT
Edition: First UK printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1948. Light blue cloth. Slight yellowing to page edges, spine only faintly darkened, a bit leaned, else fine. Dust jacket has nicks; rubbing to front flap fold and spine ends; rear panel is dusty, with a short creased tear; else a VG copy, colours bright, flap price intact. Two stories. "King of the Beggars" and "The Masked Angel". An attractive copy. ; Octavo.
Book ID: 51992More details Price: USD $85.00 USD $76.50 -
COLD BLOOD IV
Edition: First printing
Oakville, Ontario: Mosaic Press, 1992. Cream boards. Small bruise to top edge of front cover, else fine in fine jacket. An anthology to mark Bouchercon XXIII, which was held in Toronto in 1992. Crime stories by Peter Robinson, Ted Woods, Charlotte MacLeod, Eric Wright, the editor, and others. Edition of 2K copies.; Octavo
Book ID: 11782More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
COLD FALL
Edition: First US printing
New York: Putnam's, 1996. Black and purple boards, green endpapers. Fine copy. Jacket has light sunning to the yellow spine, else fine, flap price intact. His 14th and last James Bond novel.; Octavo
Book ID: 48527More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
CORKSCREW: a Reid Bennet mystery.
Edition: First printing
New York: Scribner's, 1987. Cloth & boards. Two small light grey spots to top page edges, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Signed by the author on the title page "Ted Wood 1987". Set in cottage country north of Toronto.; Octavo.; Signed by Author 0684188538.
Book ID: 21494More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
CORKSCREW: a Reid Bennet mystery.
Edition: First printing
New York: Scribner's, 1987. Cloth & boards.Ffine in fine, price-clipped jacket. Set in cottage country north of Toronto.; Octavo. 0684188538.
Book ID: 43765More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
CRIME IN REVERSE
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 49963More details Price: USD $150.00 USD $135.00 -
CRY WOLFRAM
Edition: First UK printing
London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. Red boards, spine lettered in yellow. pp 190, [2]. Page edges yellowed and lightly foxed; small bumps to lower outer corners of covers; slight musty odour; else fine and bright, no owner names. Thin dust jacket has tears and small chips to spine ends; spine folds lightly rubbed; small tears, very small chips, to outer corners; VG otherwise, flap price intact. A "Knockout Thriller" set in Spain. First edition in hardcover. 1959 US edition was a paperback original titled MARK IT FOR MURDER. This novel was reprinted by Stark House in Eureka, CA, in 2015. Of this original edition, AMICUS locates three copies (BViV, LAC, ACU).
Book ID: 48339More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
DEAD IN THE WATER
Edition: First printing
New York: Scribner's, 1983. Inscribed by Author; Black boards. Fine copy. Price-clipped jacket has two creased tears to upper rear panel, else fine. Inscribed by the author "To___ who really spread the word. With sincere thanks, Ted Wood". The Canadian author's first crime novel, a winner of the Scribner Crime Novel Award. Set in the Muskoka cottage country north of Toronto.; Signed by Author
Book ID: 41909More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
DEAD MAN MANOR
Edition: First printing
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. Black cloth, yellow spine panel gilt lettered (first binding). pp 316, (4, ads). Bruise to lower outer corner of front cover, VG clean an unworn copy otherwise. A crime novel set in Quebec by this prolific British crime novelist and journalist. AMICUS locates two copies. Uncommon in first printing. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50735More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
DEAD MAN'S TICKET
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Harbour, 1996. With good ink inscription to a fellow writer. British Columbia crime novel - logging in the bush, Vancouver's seemy side. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
Book ID: 55877More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96