London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1970.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.Durbridge's novel drawn from his six-part BBC television serial of 1965, a taut mystery of murder and mistaken identity.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original brown boards. Dust-jacket.

A crime thriller by Francis Durbridge, whose ingeniously plotted serials made him a household name on BBC radio and television from the 1930s to the 1970s.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

A thriller by Francis Durbridge (1912–1998), creator of Paul Temple and the reigning master of the BBC television thriller serial.

London, Collins Crime Club, 1932.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.

The thirteenth case for Dr Lancelot Priestley, the armchair scientist-detective of John Rhode, pseudonym of Major Cecil Street, among the most prolific of Golden Age detective novelists.

London, Collins Crime Club, November 1942.

First edition, fourth impression. 8vo. Original cloth.

A wartime impression of Christie's 1939 masterpiece, the best-selling crime novel ever written, and now published as And Then There Were None. Ten strangers are lured to an island and killed off one by one.

London, Wishart, 1932.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

A satirical fantasy by Sherard Vines (1890–1974), poet and professor of English, turning on the demon Belphegor loosed upon modern society.

Dzherzhynski
London, Peter Owen, 1956.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

Bernard Bromage's biography of Felix Dzerzhinsky, the Bolshevik revolutionary who founded and led the Cheka, the Soviet Union's first secret police and forerunner of the KGB.

Boston, Little, Brown, 1955.

First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

Leonard Wibberley's Cold War satire, in which the tiny Duchy of Grand Fenwick declares war on the United States meaning to lose and collect the reconstruction aid - only to win by seizing the ultimate weapon. Filmed in 1959 with Peter Sellers in three roles.

Translated by Dr. Joseph Collins
London, Cassell, 1929.

First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

The first English translation (of Climats, 1928), a novel of love and jealousy by André Maurois (1885–1967), the French novelist and celebrated biographer of Shelley, Byron and Disraeli.

London, Gollancz, 1964.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

Aickman's first novel and his only conventional one - a love story that shades into the ghostly - quite distinct from the "strange stories" for which he is celebrated. As Aickman (1914-81) has become one of the most collected of modern weird-fiction authors, this, his scarcest trade title, is decidedly uncommon in the first edition and particularly so in the dust jacket.

London, Gollancz, 1977.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

A collection of Robert Aickman's inimitable "strange stories," the form in which this master of the uncanny did his most admired work.

An Anthropological Interpretation of Sadism, Masochism, and Lycanthropy...a lecture delivered at a meeting of the Royal Society of Medicine
London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1951.

First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.

Robert Eisler's singular study tracing sadism, masochism and werewolf legend to humanity's shift from herbivore to hunter, delivered as a Royal Society of Medicine lecture and introduced by the psychiatrist Sir David K. Henderson. A cult text in the literature of lycanthropy.