Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Gervase Fen investigates the murder of an undercover police officer who had been investigating a poisoning. Blued boards bumped and rubbed with wear at the edges, spine darkened.
Seller: MLC Books, Northfield, MN, U.S.A.
CRISPIN, Edmund. Buried for pleasure. Victor Gollancz, 1948.
Price: US$32.49 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Very slightly shelf-worn to blue cloth at head & foot of spine, with slight wear to publisher's name at foot of spine. Overall a very nice copy Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Price: US$33.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. original blue cloth gilt (slightly rubbed, spine a little canted, prev. owner's small name to FFE, else clean & bright throughout; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 192 (last blank). A very good copy. The sixth book in the Gervase Fenn series of detective mysteries.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Crispin, Edmund:. Buried for Pleasure. A Detective Story.. London: Victor Gollancz, 1948.
Price: US$44.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardcover book . Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and Gollancz yellow dustjacket with maroon and black lettering. 191pp. Very Good in fair jacket, now in clear sleeve. Clean covers, dulled gilt and slight roll to spine. Top closed edges spotted and darkened. Name stamp of Antony Hopkins (the musician) to flyleaf. Jacket has rubbed edges with small losses to spine ends and corners, generally browned with sunned areas and small splash spots to margins. . Pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
Price: US$76.44 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A smart first edition of this exciting detective story from English crime writer, Edmund Crispin. First edition. The sixth in the series featuring Oxford professor and amateur detective Gervase Fen. In a Golden Age-style mystery combined with elements of farce, Fen contests a by-election in a rural constituency, but events are overtaken by a shocking murder case. Written by Edmund Crispin, the pseudonym of Robert Bruce Montgomery, an English crime writer and composer known for his Gervase Fen novels and for his musical scores for the early films in the Carry On series. In the original blue cloth binding. Externally, smart with light shelf wear and rubbing to the extremities. Minor fading to the spine and the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Contemporary ink inscription to the front endpaper dated 1948. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Edmund Crispin. Buried for Pleasure - A Detective Story. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1948.
Price: US$82.81 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition.Blue boards,gilt lettering to spine,some marks,page edges tanned with spotting,spotting to fep and first few pages,otherwise contents clean.
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
Edmund Crispin. Buried for Pleasure. A Detective Story. Victor Gollancz, London, 1948.
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition and printing. In very good blue cloth boards, gilt titles to back strip. The covers are tight, straight and unmarked, spine cloth ends a little frayed.Clean end papers. Cut edges are slightly foxed. The text block is tightly bound, square and clean - not tanned or foxed - excellent condition for age. With approx one inch crack from top edge down centre of pages seen from title page, but block still firm. No inscriptions etc. Very good condition. Rare edition.
Seller: Clevedon Community Bookshop Co-operative, Clevedon, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7- 191 [192: Blank], cloth. The sixth Gervase Fen novel. Fen decides to stand for election to Pariliament, murder occurs. ".if one accepts the books in the spirit in which they were written, they are splendid examples of the detective story as great entertainment. The amuse, they shock and they surprise." - Pederson (ed.), St. James Guide to Crime and Mystery Writers, (4th ed.), pp. 255-257. Hubin, p. 200. Inked name to front free end paper,a mild foxing to fore edges, a very good copy in good price clipped dust jacket with large chips and loss to spine ends, light edge wear, long split along front flap fold, rear panel split from spine. (30927)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
CRISPIN, Edmund.. Buried for Pleasure. A Detective Story.. 1948, 1948.
Price: US$132.16 + shipping
Description: London: Victor Gollancz, 1948. 8vo. Orig. cloth. Spine gilt. In dustjacket (chipped and repaired). (224pp.). 1st ed. Endpapers foxed. Previous owner's name on endpaper.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia