Foxing to extremities of text-block; cloth very good; jacket with some edge wear and minor loss, contemporary price sticker to upper panel.
Jacket artwork by Laurence East.
£75
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1927.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A light interwar comedy/adventure novel typical of the Herbert Jenkins output.
In stock
Foxing to extremities of text-block; cloth very good; jacket with some edge wear and minor loss, contemporary price sticker to upper panel.
Jacket artwork by Laurence East.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1941.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Excellent jacket artwork on this the last criminous title by Goodwin; a fugitive tale and a rare book in the jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1926
First edition. 8vo. 2pp. advertisements. Original dark red cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6.
A great first edition, with enticing jacket artwork. The authors had previously collaborated on the The Forbidden Hour.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1922.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, with publisher's overlaid price 2/6 on spine.
An early title by the author and journalist Valentine Williams, distinctly uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Murder in the library gets the ball rolling.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. 8pp. advertisements. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A very good first edition, first impression of this uncommon spy novel by G.Davison, part of a series that began in 1931 with The Man with the Twisted Face.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Interesting, and uncommon example of alt-history fiction relating to Hitler and WW2, but in this case actually written and published coeval to the time of the events. Rare in jacket.