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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
Perennial Library, 1986. Hardcover. Softcover rebound by library as hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. This is NOT a collectible copy. Binding is tight and wonderful for reading. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #076788
London: Gollancz, 1948. Sixth Impression. Hardcover. This is the sixth impression and is marked boldly on the dust wrapper "Cheap Edition." Blue cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 178 pp. Yellow dust wrapper with black and red text. The book is VG+ with very little wear and no.....
Item #078626
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
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Letters chosen and edited by Barbara Reynolds and with an introduction by P. D. James. Light brown cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 421 pp. Indexed. Dust wrapper has a photo of Sayers and text in brown and black. Book.....
Item #078625
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. First U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Chosen and edited by Barbara Reynolds and with a preface by P. D. James. Black cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 450 pp. Indexed. Dust wrapper has a photo of Sayers and background of red and black. Text.....
Item #078624
Perennial Library, 1986. Hardcover. Softcover rebound by library as hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. This is NOT a collectible copy. Binding is tight and wonderful for reading. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #076793
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
Cambridge: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt text on the spine. 165 pp. Dust wrapper is light yellow with a photo of Sayers as a child in the center. Text above and below is black and dark yellow. Book and dust wrapper are both fine. A great.....
Item #076512
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
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
Norwich: J. & J. Colman:, [1926]. Paperback. Sayers wrote this book when she was working in advertising and when it was her job to promote the Colman Mustard brand.Yellow soft cover with red text and three drawn figures. stapled spine. 32 pp. The book is VG with some tears along.....
Item #079440
New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1979. Illustrated. First Thus. Softcover. Signed by Reynolds on the title page. First St. Martin's Griffin edition. Reynolds was a close personal friend of Sayers. She edited Sayers' letters and she completed Sayers' translation of Dante's Divine Comedy when Sayers passed away. 9" x 6". Softcover with black.....
Item #075468
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
Archon Books, 1980. Hardcover. EX-LIBRARY. This is NOT a collectible copy. Binding is tight and wonderful for reading. Full refund if not satisfied.
Item #076785
New York: St. Martin's Press, 2003. First American Edition. 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.....
Item #073965