Children's Books
Leicester, Brockhampton, 1967.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Biggles on the trail of a jewel thief. A very good first edition.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1962.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An appealing first edition of this Miss Marple staple.
Detective Fiction
London, Arthur H. Stockwell, [1929].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
A very good first edition of an elusive crime thriller, especially in the jacket.
Horror & Gothic
London, New English Library, 1976.
First edition. 8vo. Original grey boards lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A fine first edition of one of the key titles by Herbert, famously author of The Rats and The Fog.
Detective Fiction
Wood (Eric, pseud. Frank Knowles Campling) Death of an Oddfellow
London, John Hamilton, [1938].
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Attractive jacket artwork graces this uncommon 'thirties title, featuring recurring characters Arnold Keene and Bernard Young.
Detective Fiction
Vickers (Roy, pseud. William Edward Vickers) The Pearl-Headed Pin
London, Newnes, n.d..
Early reprint. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
An attractively jacketed edition of this crime thriller, originally published in book form under the pseudonym David Durham in 1925.
Modern Literature
London, Collins, [1927].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A modern reworking of the Arabian Nights by popular Irish author Tynan - scarce in the jacket.
Modern Literature
(Le Pagode de Chanteloup)
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1927].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An exceptional first edition of this uncommon work by prolific author Bowen, known for her weird & supernatural works and her historical/romantic fiction.
Horror & Gothic
London, Odhams, [1919].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth.
A notoriously rare collection, including the tale 'The housekeeper', subsequently republished as 'The Confession of Beau Sekforde'.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, n.d..
25th thousand. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The novel of Edgar Wallace's famous play told by Robert Curtis.
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.
with drawings by Low, Matt, Horrabin and others and a foreword by Oliver Baldwin.
London, Philip Allan, [1930].
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Humorous reflections on the leading British politicians of the day, illustrated by the well-known caricaturists of the era.
Modern Literature
and other stories
[London], Hurst & Blackett, [1927].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A very good first edition of these light-hearted, often comical tales. Scarce in jacket.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1901.
First edition. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original red cloth lettered & decorated in gilt.
An early title by this once hugely popular writer, an English author of popular romances, and a poet and children's writer.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A Tale of Mystery and Marvel
London, Sampson Low, Marston, [1914].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original green pictorial cloth.
The fifth book in Verne's Voyages extraordinaires series, a dark and foreboding tale.
Detective Fiction
London, Heinemann, 1928.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
A splendid example of the first UK edition, seemingly considerably scarcer than its US counterpart. A murder mystery novel and early predecessor to Silence of the Lambs, with a cold-hearted doctor helping a man bent on finding his brother's murderer.
Detective Fiction
London, Wright & Brown, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth lettered in black to spine.
The rare first edition recounting the first case of Mann's series character Gregory George Gordon Green.
Victorian Literature
and other stories of War and Sport
London, Smith, Elder, 1900.
First edition. 8vo. Advertisements at end. Original red pictorial cloth lettered in gilt.
A very good first edition of this collection of stories by the creator of Sherlock Holmes.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sampson, Low, Marston, 1897.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth illustrated in gilt, white and black.
A patriotic novel by Jules Verne, part of his Voyages extraordinaires series.
African literature
London, Dorothy Crisp, [c.1946].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s 6d.
First published in South Africa in 1946, Peter Abrahams' classic novel Mine Boy exposed South Africa's fledgling racial apartheid system and townships to the world - and its wisdom, vividness and political power endures to this day.
Detective Fiction
London, Hamish Hamilton, 1950.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
Contains Chandler's essay on the art of detective stories and a collection of eight classic Chandler mysteries.