Red Thumb Mark

Hodder & Stoughton. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1937. Reprint. Hardcover with dustjacket. Yellow jacket edition of the 1st Thorndyke novel. Very good blue cloth hardcover. No inscriptions. Very good dust jacket. ; The Thorndyke Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 248 pages .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1924. Attractive copy of Freeman's first novel, introducing the public to Dr. John Thorndyke, whose scientific approach to detection was something of a departure in the genre during this period. Thorndyke attempts to clear the name of a young man who stands accused of stealing diamonds from a safe; a fingerprint near the… Read more about this item

London: Collingwood Bros, 1907. First edition. Hardback. Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A scarce, signed first edition of R Austin Freeman"s first Dr Thorndyke novel. Thorndyke was the world"s first ever fictional forensic scientist and his methods of solving crimes were based on collecting data and making inferences on them. This is the first appearance of… Read more about this item

London: Remploy. A detective novel featuring Dr John Thorndyke. Welcome reprint of Thorndyke's debut novel. Originally published 1907. Dustwrapper spine sunned but title still very legible . Fine. Hardcover. 1st thus. 1979.

New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1935. Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. New Edition. Very Good in a Fair jacket, unclipped ($2.00), heavily rubbed and soiled, multiple chips and tears throughout. Grey buckram, rubbed at the edges, with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Bound with some reading wear and a forward lean, former owner's name on… Read more about this item

Toronto: Musson. First Canadian edition. Hardcover. pp. viii, 248. Small 8vo. Bound in original red cloth with the spine lettered in gilt. The pages preliminary to the title page have been removed, front hinge cracked, neat former owner's name to front pastedown, rear hinge cracking but endpapers present and not split; binding shows edge wear and soiling, spine a… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [circa 1911]. [Crime Fiction] SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.248. Publisher's red cloth lettered in black and gilt. Contents clean, binding rather bright with one small pull to crown. Autographed by Freeman on the title page, for his local library. This copy has two discreet stamps, tag to rear e.p., neat… Read more about this item

[London]: Collingwood Bros, 1907. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. White lettering on spine and cover rubbed away, as is not unusual. 8vo. Original black cloth, lettered in white on spine and front cover, red thumb print (from the author's own) on front cover. First edition. 'The Red Thumb Mark' marks the introduction of Dr. Thorndyke, the first of… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton , 1911. Cloth. Very Good. 7.5" by 5". None. An uncommon early edition of the first 'Dr Thorndyke' novel by R. Austin Freeman. The uncommon second UK edition, and the first edition published by Hodder and Stoughton. In the publisher's original, full cloth binding. A… Read more about this item

[London]: Collingwood Bros., [1907]., 1907. First edition. First edition of this Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title, the first Dr. Thorndyke book. Author's first mystery novel. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front free fly leaf. White lettering rubbed from the spine, as is common, with the white lettering on the front cover panel. In fine, bright condition with the… Read more about this item

Dodd, Mead & Co, 1924-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. . Presumed first. Facsimile dust jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector and shows minor wear (not original dj). Cover shows minor wear, tear, and rubbing. Pages are tanned and clean.

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc, 1967. First Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Usual ex-library markings. Dj had been in a taped-in wrap, tape was cut, wrap removed but tape residue remains on covers. Coloring on dj spine is lightly faded. Book cocked. Light soiling. Lightly bumped corners. Front endpage… Read more about this item

NY: Dodd, Mead & Company. VG. 1924. 1st American Edition. Hardcover. First U.S. edition bound in black cloth with a red thumb mark decorati on on the front cover and red lettering. A Very Good copy. Tiny rub ma rks at the corners, Rubbing and two tiny frays to the head of the spin e. The rear cover has a… Read more about this item

NEW YORK NY: NORTON(W.W.) & CO INC. F/VG. PUB 1967. 1ST THUS. HARDCOVER. ISBN: ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1911 WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JAMES NELSON/THE. ISBN: SEAGULL LIBRARY OF MYSTERY AND SUSPENSE. D.J. IS LIGHTLY WORN AT THE CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS WITH A SMALL PIECEMISSING FROM THE BOTTOM SPINE FRONT CORNER, LIGHT WEAR AT THE VERTICALFOLDS, WITH THE BOTTOM CORNER OF… Read more about this item

Norton, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. DJ is price-clipped and shows moderate edgewear and scuffing;… Read more about this item

[London], Collingwood Bros., [1907]. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; frontispiece by T.E. Francis; publisher's black cloth with red thumbprint and white lettering to upper cover, white lettering to spine gone as usual, a little rubbed at lower fore-corner tips, some minor bumping to extremities, but overall a very good, solid copy. A Haycraft Queen Cornerstone, The… Read more about this item

New York: A.L. Burt, 1924. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, red cloth, 305 pages. Spine slightly cocked. Otherwise clean, tight copy. Record # 606530

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1911. Reprinted March 1937 . Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. The interior of the book is clean and fresh. The paper has darkened slightly, but there are no marks or damage. The red cloth covers are still bright, with a slight bow and minor wear at edges and corners. The dust jacket, however, is in Poor… Read more about this item

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1911. Second UK Edition. The first of Freeman's books to introduce his medico-legal forensic investigator Dr. Thorndyke. A Queen's Quorum and Haycraft-Queen cornerstone title. Hubin p.157. (And the First published by Hodder & Stoughton), preceded by the 1907 edition published by Collingwood. Octavo (19cm); dark red cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and… Read more about this item

THE RED THUMB MARK, Newton, 1911, first American edition, spine somewhat dulled, some light soiling to cloth covers, else a near vg copy. Quite scarce. A HQ Cornerstone title.