REGINALD HILL—Lot (2) First Edition HARDCOVERs

Description: • For Your Consideration: • A LOT of Two (2) First-Edition HARDCOVERS: • BY REGINALD HILL • TITLE 1: • “UNDERWORLD: A New DALZIEL-PASCOE Mystery” (Charles Scribner’s & Sons, 1988) (Hardcover, First Edition) • “REGINALD HILL, master of the psychological mystery, returns with a startling, tension-filled story set among the mines and miners of Yorkshire. Who killed little TRACEY PEDLEY? The police marked the seven-year-old girl’s case closed when a salesrep confessed to other, similar crimes. But some of the people of Burrthorpe have always thought that a local man, BILLY FARR, killed TRACEY. ‘UNCLE’ BILLY went walking with the child on the day she disappeared. He was the last person known to have seen her alive.” —THE PUBLISHER • “The real joy of the DALZIEL-PASCOE books is in the writing and the characterizations. MR. HILL has such disparate writers as TROLLOPE, BEERBOHM, SAYERS, and SHAW in his blood.” —NEW YORK TIMES • “HILL is an instinctive and complete novelist who is blessed with a spontaneous storytelling gift.” —FRANCES FYFIELD, MAIL ON SUNDAY • “HILL’s polished, sophisticated novels are intelligently written and permeated with his sly and delightful sense of humor…. More than most other mystery novels, HILL’s DALZIEL-PASCOE novels are enjoyable as much for their characters as for their complicated , suspenseful mystery plots.” —CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR • “HILL has developed one of the most engaging series of ENGLISH procedurals.” —BOSTON GLOBE • “The British author's faultless writing, ironic wit and, above all, recognizably human characters defy limiting his police stories to the mystery category.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • TITLE 2: • “AN APRIL SHROUD: A DALZIEL and PASCOE Mystery” (Foul Play Press / Countryman Press, 1988) (Hardcover, First US Edition) • “Fans of REGINALD HILL’s detective duo, fat, irascible Superintendent ANDREW DALZIEL and his cerebral cohort, Inspector PETER PASCOE ,will welcome AN APRIL SHROUD, published here for the first time in the United States. And, for the first time, they will find DALZIEL left largely to his own devices far from his own familiar turf.” —THE PUBLISHER • “Lots of weirdos, sinister and comic aspects well mixed, clever stuff.” —SCOTSMAN • “By golly, his story of an odd-ball family in a big old country house which they turn into a mock-medieval restaurant is lively. He is a 1970s MICHAEL INNES, bright as a bunch of fireworks, though without attempting the INNES urbanity. He carries the old tradition bravely into modern times.”—COUNTRY LIFE • “The setting of the plot, a rain-sodden rural Lincolnshire, is tellingly evoked. The atmospheric effect and DALZIEL’s bluff, overbearing presence are enough to ensure an entertaining read.”—DONCASTER EVENING POST • “HILL’s high standards of humor and civilized characterization are intact here, and justice and ambiguity are served in satisfactory fashion.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY • “REGINALD HILL delivers literate, complex, and immensely satisfying thrillers.” —ORLANDO SENTINEL • “REGINALD HILL is quite simply one of the best at work today.” —BOSTON GLOBE • “An excellent English author of crime fiction.” —LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “REGINALD HILL has raised the classical British murder mystery to new heights…in the AGATHA CHRISTIE tradition.” —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW • “REGINALD HILL’s novels deserve to be read in fine surroundings—perhaps in a leather chair by a crackling fire with a good sherry in your hand and a loyal hound at your feet. Or if that AGATHA CHRISTIE stage set isn’t available, at least read HILL’s mysteries in a quiet place where you can savor his acrobatic prose, his sour lemon wit, his intricate puzzle plots.” —MAUREEN CORRIGAN, WASHINGTON POST • “One of Britain’s most consistently excellent crime novelists.” —THE TIMES (LONDON) • “A lot of people write classic detective stories, but REGINALD HILL is one of the elite few who write classy classics.” —BALTIMORE SUN • “One of the masters of the modern police procedural.” —SUNDAY TELEGRAPH • “HILL is never predictable.” —MILWAUKEE JOURNAL SENTINEL • “No need to explain my passion for REGINALD HILL and his DALZIEL and PASCOE.” —JUDITH CRIST • • For other details about the two books in this lot, please see below. • TITLE 1: “UNDERWORLD: A New Dalziel-Pascoe Mystery” AUTHOR: REGINALD HILL JACKET DESIGN: LAURIE DOLPHIN TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS (New York), 1988 EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *EDITION NOTE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First American Edition” & this Number Row: “10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1.” NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 280 ISBN: 0-684-18931-3 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($14.95) is unclipped. Corners are fine. Spine tips are lightly bumped. Light wear along edges. Faint scratching & age-toning on sides but DJ is still clean & bright & protected in a Brodart book jacket cover. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Faint discoloring along the top edges; other edges are fine & boards are otherwise clean & bright. Corners are sharp. Spine is tight & uncreased with lightly bumped tips. Text-block edges are fine. Faint pencil erasings on top edge of front free endpaper; otherwise pages are bright & clean—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. •• TITLE 2: “AN APRIL SHROUD: A Dalziel and Pascoe Mystery” AUTHOR: REGINALD HILL JACKET DESIGN: LESLIE FRY TYPE: HARDCOVER PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: FOUL PLAY PRESS / COUNTRYMAN PRESS (Woodstock, Vermont) 1986 EDITION: First US Edition, First Printing* *EDITION NOTE: On the Copyright Page, the statement “First American edition, 1986”—with no later printings listed. NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy NOR a book-club edition. PAGES: 256 ISBN: 0-88150-065-8 CONDITION OF DUST JACKET: VERY GOOD PLUS. Price ($15.95) is unclipped. Corners & spine tips are minutely rubbed. Light wear along edges. Light scratching on sides but DJ is still clean & bright & protected in a Brodart book jacket cover. CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. Faint discoloring along edges but boards are otherwise clean & bright. Corners are bumped. Spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges are fine. All the pages are bright & clean—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc. LOOKS UNREAD. SHIPPING NEWS: These two books will be wrapped with care before being shipped together in a protected & sturdy box. THANK YOU! ********************** /\___/\=•ᆺ•= “We believe it’s good business to be good to our customers.” *********** FLAPPINCAT’s HOUSE RULES ***********1. GENERAL TREATMENT. We enjoy treating FLAPPINCAT customers with honesty & respect & warmth because that’s how we like to be treated when we buy things on eBay.2. GENERAL ATTITUDE. We are grateful you choose to trust us with your business. We aim for that gratitude to permeate every part of how we engage with you.3. OUR DESCRIPTIONS. We describe every item we sell as clearly and accurately as we can. 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