Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$16.59 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Black binding, gold title. 446 pages. Cover has been repaired by a DIY! Internally very good. Scan available.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Price: US$121.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1937. Second impression before publication. 447pp. Dorothy L. Sayers (1892-1957) was a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and is probably best known for her detective stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Busman's Honeymoon is her eleventh and last featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and her fourth and last to feature Harriet Vane. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from his usual routine of solving crimes, and hers of writing about them, but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps with severe head injuries. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling on the boards and a very small bit of damage to the cloth on the corner tips. There is noticeable wear to the titling on the spine and the spine ends are bumped with a little damage to the cloth on the rear spine corners and bottom of the spine. The contents are tight and clean with a name written on the front free endpaper.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.79 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1937. Second impression before publication. 447pp. Dorothy L. Sayers (1892-1957) was a crime writer during the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and is probably best known for her detective stories featuring Lord Peter Wimsey. Busman's Honeymoon is her eleventh and last featuring Lord Peter Wimsey, and her fourth and last to feature Harriet Vane. Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane marry and go to spend their honeymoon at Talboys, an old farmhouse in Hertfordshire which he has bought her as a present. The honeymoon is intended as a break from his usual routine of solving crimes, and hers of writing about them, but it turns into a murder investigation when the seller of the house is found dead at the bottom of the cellar steps with severe head injuries. The book is bound in the original black cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with shelf wear and some soiling on the boards and some circular glass marks on the front board. There is wear to the titling on the spine and the spine ends are bumped with a little damage to the cloth on the rear spine corners. The spine is slightly cocked. The contents are tight and clean with no inscription.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
SAYERS, Dorothy]. FAMOUS PLAYS OF 1937. LONDON, GOLLANCZ, 1937, 1937.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FULL BLACK MOROCCO BY LEIGHTON-STRAKER. INCLUDES 'BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON' BY SAYERS AND M. ST. CLARE BYRNE, AS WELL AS WORKS BY TURGENEV, ELMER RICE, 'THE WOMEN' BY CLARE BOOTH, ETC. FINE.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover with DJ. Black cloth with red label on the spine, titles in black. Binding good and clean and tight. Scarce original dust-jacket is present. Plain gray paper with titles in black on cover and spine, and printed date 1937 at the bottom. Spine is faded and rear cover has shelfwear, but overall very presentable for fragile 1930's cover. Title page dated 1937. Copyright page dated only 1937. 144 pages. Early ownership name on front endpaper dated 1948. Sayers wrote this play with her friend Muriel Byrne in 1936. It was published in this form (a play) in 1937, and as a novel with the same name. It features Lord Peter Wimsey, a detective who starred in 10 Sayers detective novels. This is a first edition of the play, which preceded the novel. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that its an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Publisher's wrappers (also issued in cloth); owner's signature; minor spotting and wear; very good. The novel was published in England four months after this play. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$474.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Original wraps. Tears to spine ends, spine slant, scattered foxing mostly to block edge, slight toning. Unmarked. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 144 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Sayers, Dorothy L. Busman's Honeymoon. A Detective Comedy in Three Acts. Gollancz, London, 1937.
Price: US$506.38 + shipping
Description: Sayers, Dorothy L. and St. Clare Byrne, M: Busman's Honeymoon. A Detective Comedy in Three Acts (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937). First UK Edition. Softcover Paper Issue with French Flaps. A VG copy slightly darkened to the spine with faint reading creases thereto. there is a crease to the back cover and darkening to the edges of both the front and back covers. Colleen B Gilbert A 24. Published February 1937. Basis for the novel of the same name published four months later. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Dorothy L. Sayers. Busman's Honeymoon. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1937.
Price: US$890.98 + shipping
Description: A first edition of this early Sayers novel, with the scarce errata slip present. The first edition, mixed state, with "!" for "." on page 378 but with "errific" corrected to "terrific" to page 227. With the scarce errata slip. Gilbert A25 b.1. In the publisher's original black cloth. The work was also published in paper wraps. Busman's Honeymoon is Sayers' eleventh and final novel to feature her dandy protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey, and features him on his honeymoon to Harriet Vane. The romance quickly turns to crime when the owner of the house they are staying at is found dead. A pleasing copy of this scarce Dorothy Sayers novel, with the scarce errata slip. In the publisher's black cloth binding. Externally very smart with slight bumping to the extremities. Rubbing to the head and tail of the spine and rear joint, resulting in slight loss and splitting to the cloth. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just marginal age toning due to paper used. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2115.28 + shipping
Description: A handsome copy of Sayers' eleventh novel to feature her much-loved protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey, in the original very scarce unclipped dust wrapper. In the original very scarce original dust wrapper with 8/6 to the spine. The first edition, mixed state, with "!" for "." on page 378 but with "errific" corrected to "terrific" to page 227. Lacking the errata slip. Gilbert A25 b.1. Busman's Honeymoon is Sayers' eleventh and final novel to feature her dandy protagonist Lord Peter Wimsey, and features him on his honeymoon to Harriet Vane. The romance quickly turns to crime when the owner of the house they are staying at is found dead. A pleasing copy of this scarce Dorothy Sayers novel. In the original cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally in excellent condition with minor shelf wear to the extremities. Very minor fraying to the head of the spine. Dust wrapper is sound with chipping and the occasional closed tear, worse to the spine. Sunning to the spine, as is common. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with marginal age toning due to paper used. Ink price note to front free endpaper. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$3204.97 + shipping
Description: (London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1937). First UK Edition. Hardcover. THE ADRIAN HOMER GOLDSTONE COPY. Publisher's black boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Mild surface loss to the bottom edge (hardly worth mentioning otherwise VG indeed. There are two former owner's book-plates to the front paste-down: Keith Steel Maitland (President of the Oxford Union Society 1933-1934) and Adrian Homer Goldstone (the noted book collector). Keith Steel-Maitland has written his name and date (16.6.39) in very faded ink on the front free end-paper. Both the front and rear free end-papers have a strip of ghosting (likely caused by an old dust wrapper protector). Has the all-important erratum slip on page 335. The VG yellow Gollancz dustwrapper (printed in black and magenta) is priced 8/6 net to the spine (as called for) and is browned to the spine (as usually found) with a slither of loss at the head and minor marks here-and-there to the back cover. On the verso are glue remnants in several places caused by sellotape (long since removed). Colleen B Gilbert A 25 b.1. Published June 1937. Looks nicer than it sounds. Photographs/scans available upon request.
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom