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£150



London &c., Harrap, 1924.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket.

The second of the American author's 'Pennington Wise' titles, scarce in the jacket.

£95


The Story of an Adventure
London, Harrap, 1941.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.

Lovely illustrations and jacket artwork complement and enhance this cute book for children, about animals who save themselves from a flooding river by sailing off in a top hat.

£250


First edition.
London, Harrap, 1943.

The authors imagine the consequences of a Nazi invasion ultimately defeated. A rare title listed in Bleiler but not in Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy.

£295



London, Harrap, 1937,

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.

Brunngraber was a German industrial designer and author. In Radium he speculates about near-contemporary cornering of the radium market causing problems in a hospital using it as a medicine cure cancer.

Rare in jacket. An important sci-fi title.

£325



London, Harrap, 1938.

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

Amelia Earhart's absorbing account of her ill-fated last flight around the world, begun in 1937, comprising her diary entries and other notes - a classic of aviation history. Amelia Earhart was twice the first woman to cross the Atlantic by air: initially in 1928 as a passenger just a year after Lindbergh's pioneering flight and then in 1932, flying solo.

£250



London, Harrap, 1937.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

"The adventures in this stirring African jungle story are of the Rider Haggard type, recounted with unhesitating conviction, so that the illusion of reality is perfectly established." (jacket blurb)

£175



London, Harrap, 1933.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

The first mystery written under the pseudonym "David Graeme", introducing Raoul de Rohan, an ancestor of the later Blackshirt character that first appeared in 1925.

War, Invasion & Spy

Hosken (Clifford) The Pretender

£295



London, Harrap, 1930.

First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

Striking jacket artwork on this tale of international intrigue, centring around the fictional Balkan country of Carpathia.

£120



London, Harrap, 1927.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.

'Armistice Night Murders in Paris, London, and New York' (jacket). An uncommon title in the jacket, from the pen of a prolific American author and cultural critic.

£350



London, Harrap, 1929.

First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket.

The first crime fiction work by this prolific author, published as part of Harrap's 'Sealed Mysteries' series. Each member of a small party at a cabaret on the night a murder is committed is suspected and then eliminated through evidence.

£275

London, Harrap, 1939. First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price from inside flap removed by clumsy tear. An uncommon dust-jacket by jacket legend Youngman Carter, in better condition than normally found.

£225


Translated from the German by Huntley Paterson.
London, Harrap, 1931.

First UK edition, second impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.

A superb copy of this gripping first-hand account of the German Zeppelin raids on England during the Second World War.