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FROST AT CHRISTMAS.
London: Constable, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First British and first hardcover edition. The first Inspector Frost mystery novel, this is the first hardcover edition (first published in paperback in 1984 in Canada). The Frost books became the basis for a U.K. television series.
INVASION.
Ontario, Canada: Laser Books [Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Laser Books #9. Paperback original.
INVASION.
Ontario, Canada: Laser Books [Harlequin Enterprises Limited, 1975]. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Laser Books #9. Paperback original. Fine in wrappers.
DEATH IN A LITTLE TOWN.
Garden City, New York: Published for The Crime Club, Inc., by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1935. Octavo, cloth. First U.S. edition. This is a scarce member's edition from The Crime Club, bound in red cloth instead of the usual black cloth and with a dust jacket which has no price and has the words Member's Edition included in front panel lettering. Subscribers to The Crime Club would receive their copies in the mail before the book went on sale in the stores. "For a period of time Member's Editions were bound in red cloth and had different dust jackets." - Nehr, Doubleday Crime Club Compendium 1928-1991, p. xv. In the heyday of The Crime Club, which started in 1928, they had over 4,000 subscribers, of which two of the originals remained receiving books that way until 1953. (During WW II Doubleday stopped taking memberships though allowed all previous subscribers to remain).
THE WAGES OF VIRTUE.
New York: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, n.d., [c. 1927]. Octavo, original light blue cloth stamped in black. Later edition. Adventure novel of the French Foreign Legion.