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Buy this book on-line MARRIC,J. J [pseud J.CREASEY]:** : GIDEON'S RIVER.[Author SIGNED/Association copy.]USA,NY.HARPER & ROW,1968.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,author signed (twice), 1st edn.(Author's personal,owned, association copy.)VG++/VG+.Colour pictorial illustrated upper panel and spine/ backstrip which is slightly sunned/ faded, by Bernard Rosenquit,dw/dj with b/w critics' reviews to rear panel.
Minimal shelf-wear and negligible creasing
to dw/dj edges - no bumping to corners.
Some miniscule chipping to foot of spine/
backstrip and to rear bottom corner both with miniscule loss.Head of spine/
backstrip slightly more bumped and chipped
and with minimal loss.Upper front corner lightly rubbed with miniscule loss and rear top corner has a closed tear.Top edge
slightly aged as usual/normal,fore-edge untrimmed and also lightly aged,contents bright,tight and near pristine,though book is very lightly cocked.Clean, plain maroon paper-covered card bds with publishers gilt colophon to upper bd and with blue, cloth blind-spine, with white+
red ink printed letters to spine/
backstrip.8vo,1-213pp.
The Thames is for traffic - and only rarely for crime.But when crime does occur on, or in, it, then the Thames Division of the Metropolitan Police goes to work, frequently with the aid of customs men (for traffic cases often involve smuggling).Sometimes the Thames is used for entertainment - sightseeing boats going down to the Tower or to Greenwich - sometimes for festivals.There was to be a big festival - run by Sir Jeremy Pilkington, who'd chartered one large boat and a series of smaller ones to form a flotilla that would move from Chelsea to Tower Bridge - featuring models
from Paris and fabulous jewels and furs. Splendid for the invited guests or the spectators who would line the shore and bridges, or come out in their own small boats to crowd close to the excitement.
Trouble for the police, for a fortune on water is not an easy thing to protect.
Besides all that, a lovely young girl had vanished;a man had been badly beaten up; and the London Police found their men and resources taxed to the utmost.And George Gideon of Scotland Yard found himself deeply enmeshed.Gideon wins more and more fans in this country (USA) - Gideon plus his river should delight them.
Author presentation + association copy - his home address; New Hall,Bodenham, Salisbury, Wilts.,hand-written in ink towards foot of title page and under the title,author and publisher text.[This was Creasey's 42-room manor home,where he lived and was slowly convalescing after a heart attack in 1972.Whilst convalescing here,he fell in love and married his nurse,Diana Hamilton Farrell.She became Creasy's 4th wife,just weeks before he died on June 9th, 1973.]
Twice signed by author,recto of half- title page towards the top edge,is a presentation inscrptn: 'For H.T.Evans - With thanks for a fascinating trip about
'new' New Scotland Yard', and then towards
the bottom of same: 'This book follows an almost equally fascinating trip on the Thames! Sincerely John Creasey', in signature form.
To the title page,Creasey has put J.J Marric in speech apostrophies - as in "J. J. MARRIC" and then written underneath that,'Who is John Creasey',his name being
in signature form.
Creasey based the character of George Gideon on his good friend,Commander George
Hatherill at Scotland Yard.Creasey was known to have made regular visits to the Yard for research whilst writing this series,to add authenticity to his books and these have subsequently been acclaimed
as the most accurate of police procedurals
written.It is obvious the presentation inscrptn was made after one such visit - particularly as the book is in part about London's river police.
An unusual and uncommon,scarce, association item.
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