Bryan michael brian moore (28 résultats)

Paperback. 88 very good , creases PBO. Cover by Richard Powers. paperback.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Ed. VG in pictorial wraps with yellow & white lettering & cover art by Richard Powers picturing a nurse watching a doctor about to operate. Mystery about a important person with a bullet in his brain who will be assassinated if the operation is successful. Mystery, Vintage Paperback. …

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Paperback Original: First Edition.

Soft Cover. Etat : Good. No Dust jacket. First Edition. (Dell First Edition 88). Stated First Edition. Early paperback original written pseudonymously by Brian Moore. Attractive Richard Powers cover. Moderate bumping and rubbing to hinges and reading-wear to spine. Some speckling/chipping from over title. Pages lightly age-tanned but clean and supple. Binding slightly cocked but solid. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Illustrator: Richard Powers. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 12 oz. Category: Vintage Paperbacks::Mystery; Inventory No: 015439. Richard Powers (illustrateur).…

Mass Market Paperback. Etat : Very Good Plus. Paperback Original: First Edition.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good to Fine. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 191pages. **** Brian Moore's sixth book; *** Medical Thriller, by of the most celebrated of all Canadian authors; >>> Surgeons & Assassins vie for the life of a mysterious patient; "The glaring lights above the operation table had been burning for most of the day. A man's brain lay exposed, and silent, whiite figures examined it & worked it with urgent skill & care. The patient lay quietly, fully conscious. As the electric stimulator touched certain areas of his brain, he told of his reactions. And in a Hotel Room near the Hopital, 3 hired killers waited grimly to do their job in case the operation succeeded." ; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Richard Powers Painted Cover Art! (illustrateur). Book.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 191pages. **** Brian Moore's sixth book; *** Medical Thriller, by of the most celebrated of all Canadian authors; >>> Surgeons & Assassins vie for the life of a mysterious patient; "The glaring lights above the operation table had been burning for most of the day. A man's brain lay exposed, and silent, whiite figures examined it & worked it with urgent skill & care. The patient lay quietly, fully conscious. As the electric stimulator touched certain areas of his brain, he told of his reactions. And in a Hotel Room near the Hopital, 3 hired killers waited grimly to do their job in case the operation succeeded." ; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Richard Powers Painted Cover Art! (illustrateur). Book.…

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good to Fine. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 191pages. **** Brian Moore's sixth book; *** Medical Thriller, by of the most celebrated of all Canadian authors; >>> Surgeons & Assassins vie for the life of a mysterious patient; "The glaring lights above the operation table had been burning for most of the day. A man's brain lay exposed, and silent, whiite figures examined it & worked it with urgent skill & care. The patient lay quietly, fully conscious. As the electric stimulator touched certain areas of his brain, he told of his reactions. And in a Hotel Room near the Hopital, 3 hired killers waited grimly to do their job in case the operation succeeded." ; Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Richard Powers Painted Cover Art! (illustrateur). Book.…

Paperback. 88 very good -fine, , reading crease PBO. Cover by Richard Powers. , paperback.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. PBO (Paperback Original) True First Ed. 158 pages; early Brian Moore Thriller, One of the most celebrated of all Canadian authors; >>> "MUERTO, the man said as he looked over the body. The Angelus bell tolled. Noon. Its slow peal exhoed across the wide stillness of the Bay to the terrace of the Hotel Sol Y Sombra. The face was unrecognizable. He had fallen 2 stories. His thin body had made a soft sickening impact when it hit the cobblestones. It was a waste, this death. He hadn't had the diamonds. The Girl must have them, or maybe her friend, the American magazine Photographer. There were ways of finding out."; An Mediterranean island in the sun: Where Tourists live cheap & sometimes DIE the same way. Brutal German from the Syndicate. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Painted Cover Art! (illustrateur). Book.…

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Dell First Edition Book 88, 1st printing (PBO), no month, 1956. Cover art by Richard Powers. 191 pages. "Surgeons and assassins vie for the life of a mysterious patient!" Uncommon in this condition. NF. Small corner crease to back cover. White pages.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good to Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Printing. (1957) 158+1 pp. Original pictorial wraps, lightly soiled w/ modest edge wear. Two small creases to rear cover. Small, faint dampstain to foredge and bottom of text block. Leaves lightly age toned.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Printing (1st Ed.). Near Fine to Fine in pictorial wraps with red & black lettering & cover art picturing a brunette in a slip on a bed looking at a guy in the doorway. Mystery about a woman hounded by men after diamonds she no longer has. Mystery, Vintage Paperback.…

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Paperback original. Near Fine in pictorial wrappers, litle rubbed at extremities.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Paperback original. Near Fine in little creased and rubbed pictorial wrappers.

Soft cover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First American printing. Dell # A145. Moore's ninth novel and the second using the Bryan pseudonym. The book is bright bright. clean and unmarked, marred only by very minor creasing to the spine. A beautiful copy of Moore's final crime novel. Hard to find in such lovely condition.…

Original Cloth. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition and first hardcover edition. Originally published as a paperback original by Dell in the US earlier in 1956. Red boards have an insect hole to the front panel and slight bumping to the corners. The page edges are quite heavily browned. Blotchy brown spotting to the pages at the front and back of the book. The insect damage continues through the book with small holes to the inner edge of all the pages through to the rear pastedown. The pages are browned but are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has edge wear and some rubbing and creasing to the corners. There is some light chipping to the corners and at the top and bottom of the spine. Browning to the rear panel. Jacket illustration by Lowen - possibly Fritz Lowen? First printing. Lowen (illustrateur).…

Original Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. First UK edition and first hardcover edition. Originally published in the US by Dell the previous year as a paperback original. Boards have a little bumping to the corners and a small nick to the top edge of the front panel but are otherwise clean and bright. Page edges are lightly browned and there browning to the endpapers but the pages are otherwise clean and unmarked. Jacket has a little light edge wear but is otherwise clean and bright. Jacket design by Donald Green. First printing. Green, Donald (illustrateur).…

First Edition. INTENT TO KILL, Dell, 1956, first edition vg in wraps.

First Edition. MURDER IN MAJORCA, Dell, 1957, first edition vg+ in wraps.

Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Near Fine. 1st Edition. First English and first hardback edition, first printing. Edges and endpapers browned, otherwise near Fine in priceclipped dustwrapper, with a short closed tear at hinge of upper flap.

Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell #A145. Paperback original. Mystery novel. A fine copy. Unread; scarce in this condition. (#128067).

Small octavo, cover art by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. First edition. Dell #88. Paperback original. Mystery novel. Touch of edge rubbing, a fine copy. Unread; scarce in this condition. (#128066).

First edition. Small octavo, cover by Richard Powers, pictorial wrappers. Dell #88. Paperback original. Mystery novel. A fine copy, touch of edge rubbing, unread. Scarce in this condition. (12514).

First edition. Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Dell #A 145. Paperback original. Mystery novel. A fine copy, unread. Scarce in this condition. (12515).

1956. Etat : Very good. Etat de la jaquette : Very good. First UK edition. First UK edition, first hardcover edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d. Irish writer Moore's first pulp fiction foray under this pseudonym, one of seven such titles he subsequently disowned. Adapted into a 1958 film noir of the same name, directed by Jack Cardiff. Rare. Slight toning to text block; boards very good; jacket a little rubbed and creased at edges and head of spine, overall very good. Jacket artwork by Lowen. (illustrateur). Book.…

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Publisher's ochre-coloured boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. The usual offsetting to both sets of end-papers. Overall a near fine copy. In the first issue VG++ dustwrapper priced 12s 6d net to the inside flap as called for. The dustwrapper is complete with a 1 cm closed tear at the head of the spine which is minisculy nicked thereto. The white lettering to the spine is now cream. This is the first hardback printing of this early pseudonymous detective novel by the prize-winning Irish author which was first published as a PBO by Dell in the USA in 1957. Superb cover artwork by Donald Green. Quite uncommon in first edition in collectable condition. Housed in a superb custom-made clamshell box. Photographs/scans available upon request.…

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. First Edition. First UK edition, first impression. Publisher's red-coloured boards with black lettering to the spine. Boards exceptionally bright and clean. Faint offsetting to both sets of end-papers. Overall a fine copy. In the first issue fine, bright, clean and crisp dustwrapper priced 10s 6d net to the inside flap as called for. The first pseudonymous detective novel by the prize-winning Irish author which was first published as a PBO by Dell in the USA earlier in 1956. Superb cover artwork by Lowen. Scarce in first edition in outstanding collectable condition. The basis for 1958 British Film Noir directed (in his directorial debut) by the legendary British Cinematographer Jack Cardiff and starring Richard Todd, Betsy Drake and Herbert Lom. Housed in a superb custom-made clamshell box. Photographs/scans available upon request.…