Eyre & Spottiswoode

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£195



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.

First UK edition, first hardcover edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.

Irish writer Moore's first pulp fiction foray under this pseudonym, one of seven such titles he subsequently disowned. Adapted into a 1958 film noir of the same name, directed by Jack Cardiff. Rare.

£95



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

The first edition of this science fiction author's reflections on the ways in which the world might in fact end.

£150



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937.

First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.

Autobiography of the key founder of the Vorticist movement.

£150



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1945.

Second edition. 4to. Original cloth lettered in green. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

An attractive example of the second edition of Peake's first published book, the first edition mostly being destroyed in a warehouse bombing during the blitz. Peake's reworking of the images for this edition included colour for the first time. Rare in such condition.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Peake (Mervyn) Titus Alone

£150



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1959.

First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.

The third and final volume in Peake's fantasy masterpiece, The Gormenghast Trilogy.

£425


the private memoirs of Wayne Armitage
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

A murder mystery set amongst US expats and local characters in a town in France. Frank Sherwin was an English artist known for his paintings and designs for railway destinations around the British Isles.

£175


First edition.
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935.

Features series character Spike Tracey who is studying the local paper for promising openings in crime when one literally blows in on his doorstep. Rare in wrapper especially one as good as this.

£150


First edition.
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933.

When the dignified life of Steven Kester came to an undignified end there were several people with potential motives. Serial character Spike Tracy acts as detective and solves the mystery. Rare in d/w.

£120



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12s6d.

An intriguing combination of authors: "Each of the three 'tales of imagination' in this book is by a master of the art, and there is enough incident and invention in each of them to surpass most full-length novels." (jacket blurb). The Peake tale Boy in Darkness features Titus, from the Gormenghast books.

£295


and other essays
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951.

First edition. 8vo. Original pale cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.

A handsome first edition of this collection, in which Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart.

£150



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1947.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 9/-.

A superior example of the courtroom drama subgenre.

Detective Fiction

Millar (R.) Half a Corpse

£180



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1935.

First edition. 8vo. 1p. advertisements. Original cloth. Dust-jackets, correctly priced 7s 6d.

A very good first edition of this intriguing novel, based on the story Mon premier crime by Gustave Macé, in the series "La Police parisienne."

£575



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1939.

First UK edition, first impression, stamped 'Special Presentation Edition' on copyright page. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in red to spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s. 6d. net.

The first UK edition of the author's first book. Amateur sleuth Jake Justus is on the case in this Chicago lakeside murder-mystery, and a large amount of alcohol is apparently consumed... Scarce in the original dust-jacket.

'Craig Rice' was a pseudonym for Georgiana Ann Randolph (1908-1957). J. Randolph Cox notes in Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers (London, 1980) that "...the warmth and humanity in her writing were matched by a sense of form and discipline all her own. She never forgot that the primary purpose of the detective story was entertainment."