VG.
Perrin (Alice) Rough Passages
£495
London, Cassell, 1926.
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original brown cloth.
Tales of Indian life. Uncommon, especially thus inscribed.
In stock
£495
London, Cassell, 1926.
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original brown cloth.
Tales of Indian life. Uncommon, especially thus inscribed.
In stock
VG.
Weird & Supernatural
and Other Weird Tales
London, Cassell, 1947.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped and with publisher's '4/6 Cheap Edition' sticker to upper panel.
A collection of mysterious and weird tales, by an author who numbered among his close friends Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood, and whose work was compared favourably to that of H.G. Wells and Conan Doyle: "He plays as daringly with the test tubes of science as did the early H.G. Wells...Mr. Heard is a new master in this field..." (New York Times).
Detective Fiction
London, Cassell, 1957.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original black boards lettered in silver. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
Hardboiled noir fiction by the author of Dead Calm.
Detective Fiction
London, Cassell, 1926.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth blocked in red.
An uncommonly good example of this highly collectable Father Brown first edition: Father Brown 'unravels the tangled skein of crime with entire success, and does it with convincing common-sense logic' (dust jacket).