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, 1974.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, with publisher's promotional bellyband.
The second printing of the joint Booker Prize Winner (with The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer) in 1974.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hutchinson, 1941.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
The second of three novels by Wheatley featuring Julian Day.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [1933].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, with ?publisher's price-sticker 2/6 overlaid on original price.
A good+ copy of this title, uncommon in US or UK edition - the author is well-known for his sport-related crime novels, including 70,000 Witnesses.
African literature
London, Hutchinson, 1961.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.
The first novel by Nigerian author Onoura Nzekwu, later republished by Heinemann as part of the important African Writers Series. The novel has been compared to Achebe's No Longer at Ease.
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.