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Victor Gollancz, 1954-01-01. 13th Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1954 impression, hardbound with yellow dust jacket. Book with pages unmarked, toning, limited wear. Jacket with wear at edges, spine toning, dribble on back cover, else gentle wear, aging.

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, ( 1954 ). Cheap Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. 16mo, 137pages, red cloth, toned pages; yellow dj spine darkened Cover price is GBP 39. This text has been amended and corrected by the author, and is preceded by a biogaphy of Lord Peter Wimsey.

London: Victor Gollancz Limited, 1949. Pages clean and bright, boards and binding tidy, chipping and tape repairs to dust jacket.. Twelfth Impression. Hard. Very Good/Poor. 8vo.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1949. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Good. 7.5" by 5". None . Cheap edition of this Dorothy Sayers's mystery novel, the eleventh impression. Dorothy Sayers's debut novel, introducing the character of Lord Peter Wimsey. First published in 1923, this is the eleventh impression. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Dorothy Sayers was an English crime writer and poet, known for her mysteries and  short stories set during the interwar periods and featuring aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, minor damp mark to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper sound with shelf wear, minor loss to head of spine, chipped to tail, wraps sunned. Previous ownership inscription to front free endpaper, undated. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed

NY: Harcourt Brace Co Publisher. Very Good. 1945. HARDCOVER. HARDCOVER. 6x8" thick. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, sold, bright..Tasteful Bookplate ep "William J. White"..Some dulling to Gold spine title on red cloth hard cover. ; Complete original texta as presented by HARCOURT BRACE PUB...each has the Contents pages associated with that novel. & pub date, etc ; 252+345+398pg heavy pages; . . ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES DOROTHY SAYERS LIKED..with 47 page intro by SAYERS..UNCLIPT (S2.95) DUST JACKET has 1"spine sticker. Else OK ..Book itself has been rebound in popular generic library binding... But lacks most library distinctions..SOLID COPY...with Bright white paper text. .

London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. , 1925. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A very scarce early edition of the debut novel by esteemed author and one of the Queens of Crimes, Dorothy L. Sayers. The very scarce UK second impression and first popular edition. Gilbert A3b.1. (notes). Understandably lacking the vanishingly scarce original dust wrapper. With endpaper renewed and blanks discarded, so paginating running (5)-287. First published in the US by Boni and Liveright in 1923. Published later the same year, October 1923, by T. Fisher Unwin Ltd in the UK, with this being second British impression and first popular edition published in 1925. Whose Body was Sayers' debut novel, and the first to feature her much loved protagonist, Lord Peter Wimsey. The story sets Wimsey on his path of amateur crime solving, following the death of a man found in the bath. By Dorothy Sayers, noted crime writer and one of the Queens of Crime, alongside notable others such as Agatha Christie and Ngaio Marsh. In the publisher's red cloth binding. Recased, with endpapers renewed and blanks discarded. Slight loss to the cloth at head and tail of the spine and rear joint. The occasional mark to the board. Spine slightly faded. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just marginal age toning and the odd spot. Contemporary ink inscription to half title. Very Good