Detective Fiction
London, Constable, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Tales of Chinatown and Limehouse: "horrible, ironical, whimsically aloof"
Horror & Gothic
London, Faber, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. dust-jacket, 9s6d.
An uncommon anthology of ghost tales published by Faber, including authors such as Wilkie Collins and Rudyard Kipling.
Detective Fiction
London, Peter Davies, 1960.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced 13s6d.
Ace private detective Carolus Deene is on the case in the village of Gladhurst.
Food & Drink
from Breakfast to Supper
London, Routledge, 1923.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2s6d.
A practical cookery book aimed at the smaller household, uncommon in the original jacket.
Modern Literature
London, Philip Allan, 1924.
First edition. 8vo. Device to title. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A strange and occasionally beautiful book...rather a dangerous study in the emotion of sex... (The Referee). Rare, especially in the jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Philip Allan, 1936.
'Popular Edition'. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
An attractive edition of this tale by the creator of Raffles.
Modern Literature
London, Cassell, 1926.First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original brown cloth.Tales of Indian life. Uncommon, especially thus inscribed.
Modern Literature
A story of love in the desert
London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1922.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
A very good first edition of this Egyptian tale by travel writer Douglas Sladen.
Modern Literature
Being the second part of 'The Realists'
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1927.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
An attractive Abbey jacket graces this work by prolific author McKenna, following the political career of Ambrose Sheridan.
Detective Fiction
London, John Long, 1947.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.
Dr Palfrey tackles dubious friars, a giant and "the Testament of Evil" in this cruise-ship caper.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 10s6d.
A rather topical Dr Palfrey adventure, as floods begin to besiege the world...