Disney (Doris Miles) Flame of Evil
£85
London, Robert Hale, 1968.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
No relation to the mouse people, though one suspects she tired of saying so. Doris Miles Disney was a prolific American suspense writer, with some 47 novels under her belt, several filmed for television, who specialised in quiet domestic menace. This is the UK retitling of Night of Clear Choice (Doubleday, 1967).
Disney is a modestly collected author, and the Hale UK editions turn up less often than the American firsts, scarcity of the accidental rather than the celebrated sort, which is often where the sensible collecting is.
In stock
Light foxing, ink name to front free endpaper, bookseller’s discreet label to front pastedown; jacket a little rubbed at edges with a couple of minor chips.
Jacket design by Colin Andrews.
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