THE IMMATERIAL MURDER CASE (Penguin Books # 989) Complete & Unabridged. por Julian Symons - 1954

GB: Penguin, 1954. Just a poor reading coy. . 1st Thus. Paperback. Poor.

House of Stratus, 2008. Paperback. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Victor Gollancz, 1948. some wear to covers and cover edges, library marks endpapers, rear ednpaper clipped, some foxing, otherwise book clean and tight. 2nd Impression. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Ex-Library.

Paperback. Very Good.

Macmillan. Good/Fair. 1957. Hard Cover. (K514) .

New York: Macmillan, 1957. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First American edition. Jacket art by Vera Bock. Owner name on front fly, binding slightly cocked with modest wear at the spine ends, near fine in a clipped (price intact), very good dust jacket with a horizontal crease on the panels and flaps, tiny chips and tears, and creases on the spine. Amusing novel set in the world of English existentialists and goofy modern art - body appears inside an immaterialist style sculpture.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Gollancz, 1948. First cheap edition, May 1948 (second impression of the first edition, originally published in October 1945). 160 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth. Textblock toned as usual. Very good in very good dust jacket. With two bookplates of George Sims. First cheap edition, May 1948 (second impression of the first edition, originally published in October 1945). 160 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to his Friend George Sims. Symons' first crime novel and an acutely observed satire of the London art world of the late 1930s. Inscribed "For George Sims with very good wishes Julian Symons February 1949" Julian Symons and George Sims, antiquarian bookseller and crime novelist, were friends of many, many years. This would have been one of the earliest inscriptions to Sims. They met in connection with the papers of Symons' elder brother A. J. A. Symons (author of The Quest for Corvo). Walsdorf A1b. Provenance: George Sims; David Holmes

London: Victor Gollancz, 1945. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Slim 8vo., 160pp. Sharp First Edition of the author's first book. Bound in blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Square, tight and clean throughout with just a touch of wear and toning to edges. Tiny blemish to cloth on the front board. Very attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust jacket, (7/6 net on the spine panel), has a couple of tiny chips to the spine ends. Toning to spine and moderate soiling. Still solid and complete with no creases or tears and quite scarce in any condition. A gorgeous collectable copy. (Hubin, p.288).