Terrible Door

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, edges foxed. Lengthy pencil note to ffep connecting characters and settings to British booksellers and quoting Sims, some foxing to front and rear, musty. Else, clean. In Bernard Blatch's original pictorial dust jacket: spine sunned, score to front panel, else, sharp… Read more about this item

New York: Horizon Press, 1964. 1st U.S. Edition. Hardcover. Good +/good +. 176p. Pages 70-76 are brown from newspaper clipping stored there, jacket has chips to edges especially at corners. Author's first mystery. Death of a bookseller leads to the search for the Ibiza letters in London, Naples, and the Riviera. [Hubin; p. 369] (7-1/2"x5-1/8")

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. A bibliomystery and the author's first book. Moderate slant to spine. A near fine copy in fine dustjacket. ; Octavo.

United States: Pocket, 1966. Solid with a bump on the top of the front cover with a tiny tear, a few thin creases on the covers, and the covers show light wear from rubbing.. 1st Printing. Paperback. Very Good -.

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. First edition, uncorrected proof, inkstamp on front cover 23 Jan 1964. 176 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wrappers. Minor soiling and toning. Very good plus. First edition, uncorrected proof, inkstamp on front cover 23 Jan 1964. 176 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Proof Copy. First crime novel by antiquarian bookseller George Sims (1923), an intrigue… Read more about this item

The Bodley Head, 1964. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1964. Reprint. 176 pages. Purple dust jacket with B&W lettering over blue cloth. Clean pages with firm binding. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear to spine, board edges and corners, with sunning to spine. Unclipped dust jacket. Mild wear and tear to edges and corners. Moderate sunning… Read more about this item

Harmondsworth (UK): Penguin, 1967. Reprint. paperback. Mass market paperback, near fine in pictorial wraps. Author's first mystery. Bibliomystery

New York: Pocket, 1966. First edition. 1st printing.. Mass-market paperback. Good. No dust jacket. Tanned pages. Spine has small stress cracks.. 1 Mass-market paperback. 175 p. Red page blocks. Mystery fiction: A bookseller sets out to find some valuable letters, but, whoops, he opens "the terrible door" of the past; themes of a sexy widow, a sinister tycoon,… Read more about this item

New York: Horizon Press, 1964. First Edition, First Printing. . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The first novel by Sims, who was a journalist and in British Intelligence in World War II before finding his place as a dealer in rare books and manuscripts in London, features Robert Seldon, an English bookseller who has been offered a large sum… Read more about this item

The Bodley Head, 1964. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: The Bodley Head, 1964. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First Printing. Gilt lettering on blue covers in a purple pictorial dust jacket. 8vo, 176pp. Sim's first novel, a rare book mystery. Included with the book is Sim's rare book store pictorial insert sheet saying "With the compliments of G. F. Sims (Rare… Read more about this item

Penguin, 1967. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Horizon Press. Good/Good. 1964. Hard Cover. (I235) .

pocket, 1966 first edition . 50241, very good, crease, name written on the ep, , paperback,

pocket, 1966 first edition . 50241, very good - fine, crease, , paperback,