BLACKSTONE'S FANCY by Falkirk, Richard - first edition

Bantam Q8385, 1974 First Bantam printing August 1974 in Very Good conditon.. Mass Market Paperback. Very Good.

New York NY: Stein & Day. 1973. First Edition. Hardcover. 0812816048 . Very Good in Very Good dust jacket; Exlibrary with markings. ; Ex-Library; 227 pages .

New York: Stein and Day. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1973. First US Edition. Hardcover. 0812816048 . DJ is price-clipped and is in a mylar protector. .

New York: Bantam, 1974. Light creases to the spine.. Paperback. Good+.

United States: Bantam, 1974. Solid with a spine roll and some creases on the covers.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Good +.

NY: Stein and Day. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1973. Hardcover. 0812816048 . First American edition. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket. .

New York: Stein and Day, 1973. First Printing, First U.S. Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good/About Very Good. The second novel in Falkirk's historical mystery series featuring Edmund Blackstone, a Bow Street Runner in London in the 1820s, this time given the assignment of stamping out the outlawed sport of prizefighting, a mission that leads him towards men willing to commit murder to stop him; the inside back cover has a short, crossed-out message, o/w the boards and text show some very minor shelf wear, and are clean, tight, square; the dustjacket shows wear at the edges, corners and spine ends, including several small, closed tears and a quarter-inch chip missing from the top edge of the front panel, o/w the dj is 99% whole with very little damage to artwork or design.

Corgi Books, London, 1974. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Colour illustrated card cover with blue and white coloured titles to the front panel and black coloured titles to the backstrip. Edmund Blackstone was given unequivocal orders by his superior – "stamp out prize fighting". "An order, Blackstone reflected, that putting in somewhat of a predicament. For Blackstone had a young coloured boy under his management group could hit hard and would make a fine prizefighter – that is if he had any say in the boy's training – the Reinforce the law. He himself was breaking ... ?" -- from the rear panel blurb. Creasing to the book corners and to the front book edges. Heavy rubbing of the book panels with reading creases to the backstrip. Original prices has been blackened out with a black coloured marker, to lower rear edge. Browning of the textblock edges and pages. First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or… Read More

[London]: Corgi Books / Transworld Publishers Ltd [1974]. Very Good. 1974. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. 0552095184 . First edition thus. Historical fiction involving Edmund Blackstone, Bow Street Runner, and the outlawing of prizefighting. Hubin [1984 Crime Fiction, page 136]. VG+ copy [light cover rubbing/creasing, upper corner fold to one leaf, cheap text paper tanned]. .

Methuen Publishing Ltd, 1973. First Edition. vg+/vg+. vg+ book in vg+ dw 1st Methuen 1973 edition hardcover In stock shipped from our UK warehouse