Weird & Supernatural
London, Dent, 1919.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Rare. A collection of psychic tales, mostly dealing with astral projection, out-of-body experiences and, in some cases, travel to 'other worlds'. Allen Clarke (1863–1935), also known under the pseudonym Teddy Ashton, was primarily a working-class journalist and novelist of Lancashire industrial life.
Non-Fiction
London, Dent, 1931.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original decorative cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6.
A perceptive travel and social commentary on 1920s Germany by the novelist, playwright, feminist, and suffragette Cicely Hamilton. Surveying political, cultural and social life across the fragmented postwar states, Hamilton records both the optimism of the Weimar years and the tensions that would culminate in Nazism. First issued in 1931, this later, cheaper edition (likely late 1933) incorporates a newly added chapter, "Postscript: The New Order," addressing the Nazi regime - an unusually early and appended account of Hitler's Germany within an existing work.Illustrated with additional photographs, including images of Hitler at the Nuremberg Rally and of young Nazis, the volume also reflects Hamilton's feminist concerns. In discussing Nazi pronatalism and racial policy, she wryly questions how Germany would feed its projected population increase, only to be told, ominously, that all would be well "when we have colonies."
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Dent, 1939.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A novel set against the backdrop of the American automobile industry, exploring labour relations, industrial power and economic tension in late-1930s Detroit.
Modern Literature
London, Dent, 1954.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8s6d.
An attractive first edition of the famous 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood, by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, commissioned by the BBC and later adapted for the stage.
Knap U Engels Op (Brush up your English)
London, Dent, 1941.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
From the famous 'Brush Up' series.
Modern Literature
London, Dent, 1914.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket.
A very good first edition, in the scarce dust-jacket, by Canadian author Sullivan - not extraterrestrial 'alien' in this case.