Murder Maestro Please by Ames Delano (22 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used Good. Front and back covers have light wear to edges and corners. Spine intact, some wear. Binding is intact. Pages are generally clean with minor edge or corner wear. Clearly a pre-owned and used copy but still in readable condition. Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Ed Thus. First paperback ed. thus. Very good condition, moderate over all wear, inside of covers browned, inkstamp to bottom of page edges. Book.

Condition: Good. 1963. First edition thus. 215 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning.

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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Ed Thus. First British paperback ed. thus. Good condition, over all wear, erasure marks on first page, spine slant, tear to lower end of spine, pages tones, previous owner name and address on inside front cover. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1955 Yellow jacket edition in a chipped wrapper(front panel) that has corner wear and a tear to the front flap leading edge. Jacket is in a new protective sleeve.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Paperback in very good condition. Covers are lightly edge and shelfworn, front cover slightly wavy and page block tanned. Pages are clean and unmarked. AD. Used.

Condition: Fair. First edition copy. . Book Good. No dust jacket. (Detectives, Mystery).

Paperback. First Printing. Penguin Crime C2036. Very mild slant to spine, American price on cover. A near fine copy. ; Small octavo.

paperback. Condition: Good. First this edtion paperback. Slight creasing to spine and general wear to cover edges. Internally clean. Good + condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1963 Penguin Paperback 1st Edition 1st Impression. Very good+ clean tight binding with wonderful 60's cover design as shown.

Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First Edition. -- Condition: Fine with the exception of some spotting to edges of text block, in near fine dust jacket with colour touch-up along panel edges and folds. -- Details: A fine first edition of Ames' sixth Dagobert and Jane Brown mystery in the bright sharp dust jacket designed by Jarvis. The sixth adventure for Dagobert (She Shall Have Murder) Brown and his wife Jane (ne Hamish). This time the travelling duo arrive on their tandem bicycle in time for a murder at Puiz d'Aze in the Pyrenees . . -- Provenance: Publisher's copy with their 'Publisher's File Copy No. 7999&A.' stamped to front free endpaper. Delano Ames (1906-1987) was an American writer of some 20 detective stories, many featuring overseas locations and a husband and wife detective team of amateurs named 'Dagobert and Jane Brown', a later series of Spanish based novels involved a character named Juan Lorca, of the Spanish Civil Guard. Ames moved to England in 1937 and was assigned as a British intelligence officer during World War II. He also worked on anthologies on mythology and as a translator for Larousse in France. His last book was an introduction for a book of photography of Spain in 1971. He died in Madrid, Spain, in January 1987. -- Octavo (book size 19.1x13.1cm), pp. 256. In publisher's burgundy cloth, spine with black lettering and small vignette of smoking gun. Dust jacket priced '12/6 net' to lower corner of front flap, and with colour touch-up along panel edges and folds. --.