A very good copy; jacket neatly price-clipped, some rubbing and minor chipping.
Map endpapers.
£125
London, Hutchinson, 1952.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Satirical farce by prolific journalist, socialite and novelist, Nancy Spain.
In stock
A very good copy; jacket neatly price-clipped, some rubbing and minor chipping.
Map endpapers.
Detective Fiction
and other stories
London, Hutchinson, [1934].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, 'Blue Star Library' issue.
Further crime thriller fiction based in the Pacific from the author of The Tales of Mynheer Amayat.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1930].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractively jacketed novel by the author of Wax Image and other weird tales.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1951.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, clipped and with price-sticker of 5/.
A very good first UK edition of this collection of seven tales by William Irish, a.k.a. Cornell Woolrich, in striking stylised jacket reflecting the pugilistic title story. Rare.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1925].
First edition. 8vo. Original light purple cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Some of this Devonshire author's best short stories, distinctly scarce in the original dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [1936].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
Soutar's series character Phineas Spinnet ups the ante in this tale of murder and Egyptology. Jacket scarce in such fine condition.