Children's Books
or, The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
First play edition. 8vo. Original blue boards with printed title label to spine and upper cover. Dust-jacket,
An uncommon edition in the jacket, which has done a great job of preserving the book beneath. Barrie's classic tale for children, re-rendered for the stage.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931.
First edition. Publisher's file copy. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Evocative jacket artwork on this tale about a young man using his fists and heart to navigate his wanderlust around Canada & Alaska.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1952.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An attractive first edition of the 11th Famous Five title.
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.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1926.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.
A very good first edition of this uncommon Buchan work, the third of five novels featuring his character Leithen, here entangled in a web of deadly superstition and danger on a small Greek island.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1928].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Colver was a prolific author, best remembered today perhaps for her Joan Foster series.
From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice
London &c., Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An uncommon book in the original jacket.
Children's Books
Dulac (Edmund).- Quiller-Couch (Sir Arthur) The Sleeping Beauty
and other fairy tales from the old French
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.
First Dulac edition. Deluxe issue, one of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. 4to. Original brown morocco gilt.
A handsome copy of the superior issue of Dulac's rendering of these fairy tale classics.
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.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/-.
Excellent jacket artwork, especially for dog lovers.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1936.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A very good first UK edition of one of Zane Grey's popular westerns.
Historical Fiction
Higgins (Jack, pseud. Harry Patterson) In the Hour Before Midnight
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1969.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
A consideration of the origins and methods of the Sicilian mafia, by the author of The Eagle Has Landed.
Detective Fiction
Holt (Gavin, pseud. Percival Charles Rodda) Drums Beat at Night
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 3/6.
"Drums beat at night…and Professor Bastion hears the echo on Hampstead Heath" (jacket blurb)
Weird & Supernatural
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1923.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered & blocked in black. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"A brilliant story of intriguing mystery with a most refreshing novelty of situation. I have never read a book so impregnated with fragrant odours." (The Bookman, 1923).
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1964.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Biggles investigates a tourist charter in France, uncovering and thwarting a dangerous smuggling gang's operations.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1963.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.
Biggles & chums track a vanishing aircraft and a mysterious passenger.
Children's Books
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1965.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange boards. Dust-jacket.
Biggles has dinner with old enemy, and now friend, Erich von Stalhein, who asks him if he ever wonders what happened to Marie Janis, a young girl Biggles fell in love with during the First World War.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
or, the Pommeray Case.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1927].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Striking jacket artwork of on this uncommon "death ray" title.
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Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1930].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The formula for a revolutionary new synthetic silk is stolen from the company producing it and a ransom demand of a million pounds is sent. Great jacket artwork by Bip Pares.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1917.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale red cloth stamped in black. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.
An early collection of war tales by the original 'Sapper', extremely uncommon in the original jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Great jacket artwork by Hastain on this 'Jim Maitland' novel.
Detective Fiction
Wentworth (Patricia, pseud. Dora Amy Turnbull) Vanishing Point
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1955.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
A nice first edition of one of the later 'Miss Silver' titles by Wentworth.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original light blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Ronald Standish of the Secret Service steps up to assist Bulldog Drummond in this attractive first edition.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
The first collection of stories focused on Ronald Standish of the Secret Service, by the creator of Bulldog Drummond.
Children's Books
Barrie (J.M.) and May Byron. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
London, Hodder & Stoughton, c.1929.
Small 4to. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
Barrie's famous Peter Pan, in a rerendering by May Byron and featuring Rackham's splendid illustrations.
Children's Books
The original text of Peter & Wendy...newly illustrated by Edmund Blampied
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1939.
First Blampied edition. Small 4to. Illustrations and plates. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
A wonderful illustrated edition of Barrie's classic for children.
Detective Fiction
and other Tales of Adventure
London, Hodder & Stoughton, n.d. [c.1930].
Early edition. 8vo. Original red decorative cloth. Dust-jacket, no price.
A lovely copy of this compilation of stories by American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player Rex Beach.
Detective Fiction
Bell (Josephine, pseud. Doris Bell Collier Ball) A Well-Known Face
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1960.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A very good first edition of this later title by one of the co-founders of the Crime Writers' Association.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12s.6d.
A couple discover that their child-sitter served a prison sentence for child murder, something they cannot square with the individual in question, sparking their own investigation and the unravelling of some strange secrets.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A great first edition of this collection of tales by Max Carrados and Kai Lung creator Bramah; includes his sci-fi story 'The War Hawks', a brief sequel to his only sci-fi novel, What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War (1907). Rare thus.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1925].
First UK edition, first printing. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7'6.
An excellent first UK edition of this collection of nine stories by American writer Struthers Burt, author of the non-fiction, intriguingly entitled account The Diary of a Dude Wrangler (1924). Burt's papers are housed at Princeton University.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first edition of the author's first book, memorably transferred to the big screen in 1936, starring Boris Karloff.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1936. First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with yellow spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. The second of two Buchanesque thrillers by Cannan, right down to the style of the jacket artwork. The author was well known for her detective fiction and children's stories.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1935. First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with yellow spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. The first of two Buchanesque thrillers by Cannan, right down to the style of the jacket artwork. The author was well known for her detective fiction and children's stories.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with yellow spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The first of two Bunchanesque thrillers by Cannan, right down to the style of the jacket artwork. The author was well known for her detective fiction and children's stories.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
4to. Original decorative cloth. Dust-jacket.
A very good example of this uncommon H&S edition of Alice.