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Coppergold - Pauline Glen Winslow
1978 English hardback 1st edition 1st impression published by Collins crime Club in London A VG++ book in VG++ unclipped dust jacket A nice book, no page tanning, tightly bound and square No previous owner names or stamps The jacket has no loss or tears nice and bright A Superintendent Merle ( for Merlin ) Capricorn A nice copy and worthy of a much wider audience For Sale at £12 (approx $24) *p14
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The Strawberry Marten - Pauline Glen Winslow
1973 British hardcover first edition first impression published by Macmillan in London A near fine book in VG++ unclipped dustwrapper A nice clean and tight book No owner names or stamps, nice white paper unusually for the period The wrapper has no loss, minor wear to edges The authors rare first book A nice copy For Sale at £17.50 (approx $35) *p14
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The Rockefeller Gift
1982 UK hardback 1st edition 1st impression published by Collins crime Club in London A VG++ book in unclipped dustwrapper The book has clean cloth and contents No owner names or stamps The jacket has some rubbing and the black at the spin etop has been touched in A Superintendent Capricorn mystery A solid clean reading copy For Sale at £7.50 (approx $15) *p14
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Death of an Angel
1975 British hardback first edition first impression published by Macmillan in London A near VG book in VG unclipped dustwrapper The book has the usual period Macmillan paper tanning caused by high acid paper No owner names or stamps, tight and square The wrapper has no chips 2 short closed tears The authors rare second book and a Supt Capricorn investigation A solid copy given the poor production, I've never seen even a near fine copy For Sale at £10 (approx $20) *p14
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The Brandenburg Hotel
1976 American hardback 1st edition published by St Martin's in New York A VG++ book in like unclipped dustwrapper The book has clean cloth and contents Nice to see clean white paper, acid free unlike the English editions of the period The jacket has some light and minor edge wear A Superintendent Capricorn mystery A nice clean attractive example For Sale at £7.50 (approx $15) *p14
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Scotland Yard and its Criminal Investigation Department are too well known to need explanation, but the Special Branch, perhaps, is not. Originally the Special Irish Branch, formed to counter Fenian activity in London, it is now involved more broadly in the defense of the realm. It is separate from SIS (Secret Intelligence Service) and MIS (Security Service), which are Great Britain's intelligence and counterintelligence services, respectively, and which are also separate from one another. And although MI stands for Military Intelligence, in fact it is not a military organisation, the military having their own services, for instance, Naval Intelligence Department (NID). During World War II there was a certain rivalry between SIS, which was the descendant of the Secret Service of gentlemen amateurs, and the more newly formed MIS, composed mainly of bureaucrats. Some of the glamour of SIS was tarnished after the exposure of Burgess, Maclean, and Philby, but all that was long after the time period covered by this book, the events in which, of course, are purely imaginary |
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