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.
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.
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.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, 1939.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Apparently derived from a theatrical anecdote given to the author by George du Maurier, building upon the author's literary reputation for combining exciting incidents with psychological interest.
The experiences of a naturalist with the "St. George" Expedition
London, Hutchinson, [1926].
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 18/-.
A picturesque account of of travel on the yacht "St. George" among some of the little-known islands of the South Seas, from Easter Island to Rapa and the Marquesas.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [1925].
First edition. 8vo. Original dark red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Seemingly a bizarrely scarce edition of this crime fiction title, with the BL and WorldCat only recording the Tauchnitz edition. It first appeared in serial form in Hutchinson's Magazine, 1924.