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Hardcover collector edition, Heron Books / Edito-Service S.A., Geneva, 1981, by arrangement with Victor Gollancz Ltd., London, in fine condition. The boards are bound in deep maroon faux leather, elaborately gilt-tooled with interlacing geometric bands, knotwork, covering the full front board and continuing across the spine panels. Gilt lettering to the spine carries the title and author name. The binding is firm and tight. Pages are clean, bright, and unmarked throughout. Includes a frontispiece portrait of the author by Sheilagh Noble. A handsome book. Heron Books / Edito-Service produced collector editions of popular and classic works throughout the 1970s and early 1980s. First published in 1963 by Victor Gollancz, London. A story of betrayal and moral compromise following a weary British intelligence officer on one final Cold War assignment.

A well-kept softcover edition in very good condition. The boards carry light shelf wear at the corners and spine edges but remain intact and square. Page edges show the attractive yellow toning typical of paperbacks of this era, the text block itself is clean, tight, and crisp. The Nine Tailors, a Lord Peter Wimsey mystery by Dorothy L. Sayers, was first published in Great Britain in 1934. This New English Library paperback edition was printed in Canada and reprinted in 1982.

A hardcover copy in very good condition. Boards are clean with a light bump to the bottom edge. Dust jacket is very good, with a light stain to the back bottom edge. Pages are clean and unmarked throughout. First printing. Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson. Bond Street Books / Penguin Random House Canada, 2024. The sixth novel in the Jackson Brodie series. Atkinson won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for her debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum and two Costa Novel Awards for Life After Life and A God in Ruins.

A Little, Brown and Company first United States edition, first printing hardcover in fine condition. Boards are clean, bright, and square throughout with absolutely no wear to the spine, corners, or edges. Dust jacket is bright, crisp, and undamaged, fine in all respects with no tears, chips, fading, or soiling. Pages are fresh and clean throughout, completely free of any marks, stamps, or annotations. Binding is firm and tight. A pristine, unread copy in like-new condition throughout. Published by Little, Brown and Company, New York, in June 2019, and originally published simultaneously in the United Kingdom by Doubleday, this first United States edition, first printing hardcover presents Big Sky, the fifth novel in Kate Atkinson's celebrated Jackson Brodie series, arriving nine years after Started Early, Took My Dog (2010). Kate Atkinson, who lives in Edinburgh, won the Whitbread Book of the Year for her debut Behind the Scenes at the Museum.

This handsome first printing is in fine condition. The pages are tight, clean, and unmarked, and the book remains square and firm in its binding. The red boards are unmarked, with red lettering along the spine, and the dust jacket is clean and unmarked. This copy is also available to international customers through AbeBooks.com, as Kathrin’s Books currently ships within Canada only.

This handsome first printing is in fine condition. The pages are tight, clean, and unmarked, and the book remains square and firm in its binding. The black boards are pristine, with red lettering on the front and spine, and the dust jacket is clean and unmarked. This copy is also available to international customers through AbeBooks.com, as Kathrin’s Books currently ships within Canada only.