JAMES, P.D.. A Mind to Murder. Faber & Faber, London, 1963.

Price: US$4518.07 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered red cloth in pictorial dust jacket. A few light bumps and slightly darkened board edges and lightly foxed endpapers. Dust jacket not price clipped, with fade to the spine, creases to the edges, a little darkened overall and some creasing to upper panel edges as well. This copy signed by P. D. James on the title page, with the book signing ticket from The National Capital Reading Series. Event ticket from Wednesday November 19, 1997.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

JAMES, P. D.. A MIND TO MURDER.. Faber and Faber, [1963], London, 1963.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Author's second mystery novel. Signed by the author on the title page. Lightly foxed on front and rear fly leafs and fore-edges, else a fine, bright copy in dust jacket with a tiny rub to head of spine and top front corner point. Adam Dalgleish mystery. This copy is housed in a cloth clamshell case with the dust jacket copy repeated on the front and rear covers and the spine panel. An exceptional copy of a scarce title.

Seller: BUCKINGHAM BOOKS, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, GREENCASTLE, PA, U.S.A.

P d James. A Mind to Murder - INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR IN 1964. Faber, London, 1963.

Price: US$5162.23 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: HARDBACK - The book is in near fine condition, free of any previous owner names or Inscriptions. The pages are lightly toned, but free of any signs of foxing. The book has been inscribed by the author to the ffep. The inscription reads.J PAGE / FROM / P D JAMES / JAN 1964. The books red boards are bright and un faded as is the gilt lettering to the spine. The dust wrapper is in near fine condition. The colours are very bright with none of the usual fading or browning to the spine. The rear panel is very clean indeed, as is the dust wrapper in general. Correctly priced at 18s.net

Seller: West Hull Rare Books - P.B.F.A., Hull, YORKS, United Kingdom

JAMES, P. D.. A Mind to Murder.. London: Faber and Faber, 1963, 1963.

Price: US$8722.16 + shipping

Description: First edition, first impression, inscribed by the author to Otto Penzler on the front free endpaper, "P. D. James to Otto with affection & admiration", over the book label of Elaine Greene, her literary agent. This is a superb literary association: Penzler is an American author, editor, and owner of The Mysterious Bookshop in New York, and the Mysterious Press, which published mystery, crime, and suspense authors, including P. D. James. This was James's second book, and the second title in the Adam Dalgliesh series. Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to spine gilt. With dust jacket. A fine copy in the sharp, bright dust jacket, with just a little sunning to spine panel, rarely encountered in such nice condition.

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

James, P.D. A Mind To Murder.. Faber and Faber, London, 1963.

Price: US$11500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of the author's second book. Octavo, original green cloth. Signed by the author on the title page with a transcription from the novel as follows, "The invitation would commit him to nothing more crucial than seeing that she had a pleasant evening and paying the bill. And a man was surely entitled to call his own publishers P.D. James." The inscription is from the final sentence of this novel. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Charles Mozley. Rare and desirable, especially with such a lengthy inscription and in this condition. The second book to feature Scotland Yard investigator Adam Dalgliesh, A Mind To Murder is a "superbly satisfying mystery" (Chicago Daily News). "P.D. James is one of the national treasures of British fiction. As James takes us from one life to another, her near-Dickensian scale becomes apparent" (Malcolm Bradbury).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.