Sayers, Dorothy L.. The unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. Ernest Benn Limited, 1928.

Price: US$77.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Clean hardback tightly rebound in dark blue cloth with gilt titles, new endpapers, some internal strengthening, no inscriptions. Rebinder has cut pages excessively so that header partially cut through at top of some pages but text all complete and readable. 288 pages

Seller: Aucott & Thomas, Ibstock, United Kingdom

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. Ernest Benn, 1928, 1928.

Price: US$1539.92 + shipping

Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Black cloth with orange lettering design to front and spine, binding square, front hinge strengthened, pages and endpapers very clean indeed. The first printing of Sayers's fourth novel to feature Lord Peter Wimsey, the gentleman detective, from an edition of only 1000 copies, and one of the most elusive of her titles, very rarely found in such sharp condition.

Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. Ernest Benn Ltd, London, 1928.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Octavo, 287 pages; publisher's black cloth, printed in orange. One of 1,000 copies; the 4th of the Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Light wear at extremities, expert strengthening to inner hinges; neat owner presentation on FEP. Overall, a very good copy, now rare on the market.

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

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club.. Ernest Benn, London, 1928, 1928.

Price: US$12191.02 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, one of Sayers's scarcest books, only 1,000 copies printed. The dust jacket is rare. This is the fourth of the Peter Wimsey novels, a murder mystery set in the post-war years of London's clubland, the Bellona Club being a fictional gentlemen's club for war veterans. Octavo. Original black cloth, front and spine lettered and decorated in orange. With the dust jacket, not price-clipped. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. A sharp and sound copy with cloth bright, contemporary ink ownership inscription to front pastedown, a few stray spots to fore-edge but generally very clean; jacket slightly worn at ends and corners, neat c. 50 mm split up bottom of front joint (with some discreet tape repair) and front fore-edge: a very good copy in like jacket.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT THE BELLONA CLUB. Benn, 1928.

Price: US$12191.02 + shipping

Description: First edition. Original black boards with lettering and design in orange, in rare buff dustwrapper printed in black. A fine copy with a contemporary ownership name to the front pastedown in a very good dustwrapper, which has closed tears to the front joint and fold and a little wear to the corners. The fourth Lord Peter Wimsey novel and the second to be published by the relatively small imprint of Ernest Benn, in an edition of only 1,000 copies. Very rare in a dustwrapper.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom

SAYERS, Dorothy L.. THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT THE BELLONA CLUB. Benn, 1928.

Price: US$12191.02 + shipping

Description: First edition. Original black boards with lettering and design in orange, in rare buff dustwrapper printed in black. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper with a little fraying to the spine ends and a couple of repaired splits to the joints, but a clean and well preserved copy. The fourth Lord Peter Wimsey novel and the second to be published by the relatively small imprint of Ernest Benn, in an edition of only 1000 copies. Very rare in a dustwrapper.

Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom