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London: Victor Gollancz, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. FIRST EDITION. SIGNED on the half title page: "Salutations Distinguees / Dorothy L. Sayers."Â The phrase "salutations distinguees" is French and, roughly translated, it means, "your sincerely."Â On the first front end paper is the name "Ce'cile Peel." Orange cloth boards with a......
Item #064184
Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1918. First Edition. Softcover. Sayers second book. Catholic Tales and Christians Songs, a book of poetry. Brown heavy card stock boards. No printing on the cover. There is a type of dust cover which is attached along the spine. It has art signed GR and text in.....
Item #063321
New York: Bourbon Street Books, 2014. Paperback. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. Paper covers with pictorial illustration against red, blue and black background. Title on cover and spine; synopsis of story on rear cover with author information. 301 pp. Fine condition. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071554
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First American Edition. Hardcover. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1936. First American edition. Gilbert 21bIBlack cloth boards with blue stamped text. 469 pp.VG condition with edge wear to the boards and the book is slightly cocked. Lacking dust wrapper. Shelley and Son.....
Item #042337
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1940. In the Teeth of the Evidence and Other Stories by Dorothy L. Sayers. A book of short stories including two Lord Peter Wimsey short stories. Blue cloth boards with light blue text on the front.....
Item #068394
St. Martin's Press / Dorothy L. Sayer's Society, 1996-2002. First Editions. Hardcover. The fifth volume is uncommon and is called "Dorothy L. Sayers; Child and Woman of Her Time; A supplement to The Letters of Dorothy L. Sayers." [Volume I]: St. Martin's Press, 1996. 421 pp. Volume II: St. Martin's.....
Item #063322
New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, c. 1962. Paperback. Attractively illustrated color paper covers, white title front and spine. Like New condition. [ix] 397 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071549
New York: Bourbon Street Books, 2012. Paperback. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery With Harriet Vane. Pictorial paper cover against burgundy, orange and black. Title on cover and spine. Synopsis on rear with author information. [xii] 270 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071552
New York: Harper Collins, 2020. A Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery. Pictorial cover against green, orange and black background. Title on cover and spine. Synopsis and author information on rear cover. [xiv] 301 pp. Fine condition. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071553
New York: Payson & Clarke, 1928. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1928. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club. A Lord Peter Wimsey novel. Purple cloth boards with green text on the spine. 345 pp. The dust wrapper has a purple background with gruesome art and text in green.....
Item #068395
New York: Bourbon Street Books, 2012. Paperback. A Lord Wimsey Mystery. Paper covers illustrated against red, black and orange background. Title on front and spine. Short synopsis on rear cover. Like New condition. [viii] 276 pp. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #071551
London: Victor Gollancz, 1944. Softcover. The Zeal of Thy House by Dorothy L. Sayers. Eleventh printing of the first cheap edition (the second edition. This play is about the reconstruction of Canterbury Cathedral after a fire. It stresses the high value of good work, as Sayers has written elsewhere. A......
Item #069262
New York: Brewer & Warren, 1930. First American Edition. Hardcover. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, 1930. This is the only mystery that Sayers wrote which does not feature Lord Peter Wimsey. Robert Eustace is a pen name for Eustace Robert Barton. Barton was a doctor and scientist. For this book, he supplied.....
Item #071284
New York: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2003. First U. S. Edition. Hardcover. FIRST U.S. EDITION, 2003. Sayers left an unfinished manuscript when she died. Jill Paton Walsh finished it and it was published as Thrones, Dominations. After the success of that book, Walsh took on another Lord Peter Wimsey project. In this one.....
Item #071852
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First American Edition, Second P. Hardcover. At the time of Sayers' death, an incomplete manuscript was left. Jill Paton Walsh completed it "to widespread praise." This book is from the library of noted Sayers scholar Stephen P. Clarke, though there are no markings in.....
Item #073966
New York: Robert M. McBride & Company, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book of eleven essays, Sayers contribution comes first. It is The Priest's Tale: The Journeyman.Tan cloth boards with paper label on the spine. Lacking dust wrapper if there was one.Book is soiled and the paper label on.....
Item #064187
LIMITED EDITION 101/10000. Paperback. This book says, opposite the title page, "Previously Published by / The Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries / Noel Stock / Ezra Pound's Pennsylvania / (1976). There is no evidence of this previous publication either in the World Catalog or in internet searches. Thus.....
Item #064198
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2002. Hardcover. Walsh previously finishing the incomplete novel that Sayers left upon her death. That book, Thrones, Dominations, received much acclaim. Here Walsh is only working with notes found in Sayers estate, rather than an actual manuscript, but the result is marvelous. This book is from.....
Item #073964
Great Britain: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Edited by Ralph E. Hone and with preface by Barbara Reynolds. Illustrated by Norah Lambourne. White glossy boards with text in orange and black. In the lower center there is an artistic rendering of a street scene. 165 pp. plus.....
Item #064188
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1997. Signed, First American Edition. Softcover. "This well-witten, beautifully organized, and perceptive biography brings both the woman and writer alive for me as has no previous study." P. D. James. Black soft-cover with a photo of Sayers on the front. Indexed. 398 pp. VG condition.....
Item #073958
Oxford / Batavia / Sydney: A Lion Book, 1992. Uncorrected Laser-Copy Proof. Softcover. An unusual item from the library of prominent Sayers scholar Stephen P. Clarke. Orange soft cover with black text. 243 pp. plus an unpaginated index. Very nearly fine with only miner wear at the corners. It is.....
Item #073956
New York: Minotaur Books, 2011. First American Edition. Hardcover. This is a Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane mystery based on characters of Dorothy L. Sayers. The book is from the library of Stephen P. Clarke though this is not referenced in the book. Blue cloth boards with gilt text.....
Item #073963
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010. Inscribed, First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed to Stephen P Clarke by the author. This is a Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane mystery based on characters of Dorothy L. Sayers. The book is from the library of Stephen Clarke and is inscribed: "To Steve with thanks.....
Item #073962
Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1979. Inscribed, First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by the author to noted Sayers scholar Stephen Clarke, author of The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion, an extraordinary reference book. Peach colored cloth boards. 217 pp. Red dust wrapper with an image of Sayers and text in white.....
Item #073957
Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1976. Reprint. Hardcover. Paperback entitled on cover and spine; wear to edges and covers. Crease lower front cover, owner name on endpaper, text free of writing. VG. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #074563