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Sayers, L. Dorothy. Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First American Edition. Black cloth boards with silver lettering. Pages are unmarked, with a glued circle illustration on the front endpaper. Unmarked pages that are yellowed with heavy foxing on the edges and endpapers. The back hinge is loose and separating from the binding. The cover has heavy bumping an wear on the corners and the spine. The spine is very worn and is slightly discolored.

Seller: My Dead Aunt's Books, Hyattsville, MD, U.S.A.

Sayers Dorothy L. Busman's Honeymoon. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: All books outside UK sent airmail and over £30 tracked and inside UK signed for. PayPal accepted. First U S Edition. 1937. A love story with detective interruptions. Original black cloth, purple titling, some wear at spine joints and spotting to foredge and a little to some pages. Covers a little marked but a good clean tight copy.

Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Sayers, Dorothy L.. Busman's Honeymoon. A Love Story with Detective Interruptions. First Edition. New York, 1937. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$42.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First American Edition. Original cloth, very good, some minor offsetting to inner hinges of endpapers and inked gift inscription on front free endpaper.

Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$49.50 + shipping

Description: Octavo (20.5cm); black cloth, stamped in light blue; 381pp. Spine sunned, slightly wrinkled; boards mildly soiled and rubbed. Textblock toned along edges and margins; pp165-178 chipped along fore edge; else sound, Very Good. The eleventh and final Peter Wimsey (described by Sayer as a cross between Fred Astaire and Bertie Wooster) mystery story by the multitalented English author Dorothy L. Sayers. It was adapted from a play of the same name by Sayers and Muriel St. Clare Byrne, in which Wimsey and his new wife (and fellow sleuth) Harriet Vane end up solving a murder mystery on their honeymoon.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Dorothy L. Sayers. Busman's Honeymoon: A Love Story with Detective Interruptions. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Black cloth binding, gold titles on spine and front cover. Clean unmarked copy, small chip to the cloth at foot of the spine, corner lightly bumped. Dated 1937 on the copyright page without any additional printings noted.

Seller: The Book Shelf, Salem, OR, U.S.A.

Dorothy L. Sayers. THE NINE TAYLORS.. NY: Harcourt, Brace and Co., [1934: i. e. 1937 or later]., 1937.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo, cloth, dust jacket (almost complete but in need of some expert repairs and a mylar cover), 331, i pp. A later printing of the First American Edition, evidenced by the appearance of BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON on the rear flap of the jacket, it having appeared only as early as 1937.

Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.

Sayers, Dorothy L.. Busman's Honeymoon: a Love Story with Detective Interruptions. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1937.

Price: US$124.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Publisher's cloth. First American edition stated. Spine softened, mild insecting to cloth, corner wear, spine ends a bit worn/frayed. Scattered foxing and some stains to pages. Ffep and half title a bit rumpled; small corner tear at ffep. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 381 pages

Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.

Sayers, Dorothy L.. Busman's Honeymoon. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Harcourt Brace & Company. New York. 1937. 381 pages. First edition, second printing stated. Binding and hinges are sound. Black panels are clean. Endpapers show age toning. Front pastedown has a vintage bookplate adhered as well as light soiling and a tiny scuff. Shelf-rubbing linked to a touch of cloth loss at bottom corner tips and foot; not bad. A true second printing of the classic printed in the same month as the first printing.

Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.

Dorothy L. Sayers. Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers (First U.S. Edition). Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Busman's Honeymoon by Dorothy L. Sayers (First U.S. Edition) A firm copy with rubbed edges. Some loss to jacket spine ends and chipped corner tips. Price-clipped. Clear cover.

Seller: Heartwood Books and Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.

Sayers, Dorothy. Busman's Honeymoon. Harcourt, Brace and company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First American edition stated. Near fine book in with chips to spine head, wear to edges, not price clipped.

Seller: Graver & Pen Rare Books, Midland, MI, U.S.A.

Sayers, Dorothy L.. BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON A Love Story with Detective Interruptions. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1937.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Octavo. Stated First American Edition. $2.50 price on dust jacket front flap. A near fine copy in a good dust jack with chips, scuffs, short closed tears, tape residue. 381 pp.

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.

Sayers, Dorothy L.. BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON.. HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY., NY, 1937.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: First American edition. A good copy in worn dj. (Top & bottom of spine on dj. chipped, but not affecting titles. Spine discolored, though still perfectly readable. A few small edge chips & several tears with creasing & shelf wear to dj. Edges of black cloth covers faintly damp stained. Edges foxed) Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. (GC)

Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

SAYERS, DOROTHY L.. Busman's Honeymoon. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937, 1937.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition; preceding the English edition by several months. Very good to fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket with wear and tear. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.