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Edmund Crispin. HOLY DISORDERS. Victor Gollancz, 1945.
Price: US$146.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: APPEARS VERY LITTLE READ. Minimal wear to hard back book. Dust jacket has light shelf wear/tear.Pages are clean, bright and tight. Name written inside front board.
Seller: September Books, CHURCH STRETTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-175 [176: blank], cloth. The second Gervase Fen novel. Murder in a small English town, perhaps involving a coven of witches or German spies. ".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. Small neat inked name and date to upper front free end paper, mild toning to end papers and text block, a very good copy in a good to very good dust jacket with overall soiling and darkening, chips with loss to corner tips and spine ends, ring stains to lower front panel. (30924)
Seller: John W. Knott, Jr, Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB, Laurel, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In yellow jacket over blue cloth, 8vo, 175pp. First UK edition of Edmund Crispin's second book. (minor shelfwear and fading to jacket extremities; slight toning to page edges). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
EDMUND CRISPIN.. Holy Disorders. A novel.. Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, 1945.
Price: US$318.51 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 175pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine. The tips of several corners gently bumped, the top edge lightly spotted, and with a small area of discoloration to the cloth at the head of the backstrip where the dust wrapper is defective. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper, and a contemporary date inked to the head of the rear pastedown. A small area of staining to the head of half a dozen preliminary leaves. A very good copy in dust wrapper, quite toned at the spine panel, and somewhat marked, chafed, spotted and soiled, with a small area of loss from the head of the spine panel, not impacting the lettering, and a smaller area from the base. The author's second book, and the second of his splendid Gervase Fen detective stories.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
CRISPIN, Edmund.. Holy Disorders.. London Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1945.
Price: US$574.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression; 8vo; publisher's cloth, dust-jacket, a little fraying to spine ends and corner tips but overall very good. A very good first edition of the author's second book, scarce to find with the fragile Gollancz dust-jacket in such good condition. The book's printed dedication acknowledges the assistance of the author's college friend, the poet Philip Larkin, in proofing and editing the text.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom