Cloth very slightly mottled and bumped; minor chipping to top edge of jacket, but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Wm Atkins.
£70
London, Methuen, 1943.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in pink to spine. Dust-jacket.
The first edition of Lodwick’s prize-winning first novel, in part based on his own experiences with the Foreign Legion during the outbreak of WW2.
Out of stock
Cloth very slightly mottled and bumped; minor chipping to top edge of jacket, but overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Wm Atkins.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, price ablated from spine.
A pleasing first edition of this collection of short stories by 'Sapper', featuring the character Ronald Standish as chief protagonist (appearing previously only in 'The Saving Clause' (1927) and 'Tiny Carteret' (1930)). Sapper of course most well-known for creating Bulldog Drummond.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
The last espionage novel by this prolific author who famously enjoyed the high-life. A rousing tale of the quest for world peace via the machinations of Italian Fascism.
War, Invasion & Spy
Chatto & Windus, London, 1929 first edition
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Herbert Jenkins, [1942].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A striking first edition of this romantic, behind-the-scenes thriller of the Secret Service by a prolific author.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Michael Joseph, 1945.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A very good first UK edition of aviator Ernest Gann's exciting, realistic aeronautic adventure set in the far north of Canada.