A very good copy in slightly rubbed and lightly dust-soiled jacket.
Jacket artwork by Gladys Hynes.
£160
London, Constable, 1934.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
A charming work on all drinks effervescent, by the highly renowned wine writer André Simon.
Out of stock
A very good copy in slightly rubbed and lightly dust-soiled jacket.
Jacket artwork by Gladys Hynes.
Modern Literature
London, Constable, 1936.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An adventure novel set in the French Foreign Legion milieu, by American journalist and adventure writer Rourke.
Modern Literature
London, Constable, 1930.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Rural novel set in the village of Thornhill, dominated by the violent farmer-squire George Raker. The land itself is the true tyrant - binding all the characters, including Raker's wife, Esther Marlowe, James Baxter, and a labourer called Shandy, through possession or toil to its impersonal seasonal rhythms.
Detective Fiction
London, Constable, 1958.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Modern Literature
London, Constable, 1932.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red to spine. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
London, Constable, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, priced 2s.6d.
A first-class mystery... a story of dark doings, with a pleasant background of East coast life... (Daily Telegraph). Attractive jacket artwork, and a scarce first edition, here in a slightly later issue jacket.