Some foxing, heavy to early leaves; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at head of spine; jacket with some chipping and creasing, minor marking, overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Stanley Rogers.
£395
A Romance of the Air
London, Harrap, 1924.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An aviation-themed romance/adventure, capitalising on early 20th-century fascination with flight. Attractive jacket artwork.
In stock
Some foxing, heavy to early leaves; cloth slightly rubbed and bumped at head of spine; jacket with some chipping and creasing, minor marking, overall very good.
Jacket artwork by Stanley Rogers.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Harrap, 1939.First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price from inside flap removed by clumsy tear.An uncommon dust-jacket by jacket legend Youngman Carter, in better condition than normally found.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Harrap, 1937,
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Brunngraber was a German industrial designer and author. In Radium he speculates about near-contemporary cornering of the radium market causing problems in a hospital using it as a medicine cure cancer.
Rare in jacket. An important sci-fi title.
Detective Fiction
London, Harrap, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket.
The first crime fiction work by this prolific author, published as part of Harrap's 'Sealed Mysteries' series. Each member of a small party at a cabaret on the night a murder is committed is suspected and then eliminated through evidence.
Detective Fiction
London, Harrap, 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A mystery and murder thriller set on a South Seas island, involving intrigue and suspense in an exotic locale. Brian Cotterell is a pseudonym of Captain A. E. Dingle (1879–1947), a British seaman and author known for sea stories. He also wrote under the pseudonym "Sinbad."
Modern Literature
London, Harrap, [1937].
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
A roman-à-clef based on the life and discovery of radium, dramatising the scientific, political and moral implications of radioactivity. Originally published in German (Radium, 1936).