A complete and detailed account of the amazing criminal activities of this sinister Chairman
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1929].
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth blocked in orange. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An omnibus reissue combining Sax Rohmer's first three Fu-Manchu novels - The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu (1913), The Devil Doctor (1916) and The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917) - under a single cover. An attractive copy.
Modern Literature
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1956.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
The novel centres on Joseph Mbagawa, an East African student and chief's son with artistic leanings, living in a London hostel with other African students; chafing against its insularity, and against the aggressive race-consciousness of his influential friend Aiyedumni, he moves to a boarding house, setting himself at the intersection of two worlds.
Thriller Fiction
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1956.
First edition, first impression. Signed by the author on title-page. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
MacArthur settled in Rhodesia in 1947, engaging in tree-farming as well as writing, and in all wrote over 40 books between 1945 and 1981 - travel books, adventure stories for boys and murder stories, some under the pseudonym David Wilson. Simba Bwana draws on his intimate knowledge of East and Central Africa, gained through numerous safaris following his settlement in Rhodesia, and on his earlier wartime travel writing.
Modern Literature
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1956.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
The novel centres on Joseph Mbagawa, an East African student and chief's son with artistic leanings, living in a London hostel with other African students; chafing against its insularity, and against the aggressive race-consciousness of his influential friend Aiyedumni, he moves to a boarding house, setting himself at the intersection of two worlds.
Detective Fiction
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1922].
First UK edition. 8vo. Ink-stamped 'With the publisher's compliments' to title-page. Original cloth.
An uncommon cinema-related title by the author of When It Was Dark (1903), under the pseudonym 'Guy Thorne'.
Modern Literature
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1920].
Fifth edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
The story of a woman who, while travelling through the Cornish countryside, discovers the journal of a couple who, unable to marry, remained devoted to one another. Gertrude Eliza Page (1872-1922) was an Anglo-Rhodesian novelist, best known for Paddy the Next Best Thing (1908), which was adapted as a British silent film in 1923.
Modern Literature
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1938.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An uncommon title in the Youngman Carter jacket, especially signed by the author, a writer whose fiction engages with questions of human consciousness and illusion, apparently.
Modern Literature
and The Extraction of Confession
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1951.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A descriptive study of the Russian purges of 1936–39 drawn from numerous personal experiences by a Soviet historian and a German scientist writing under pseudonyms, outlining the anatomy of the purge process including methods of selecting victims, securing denunciations, fabricating charges, and extracting confessions. The authors were Fritz Houtermans, a German physicist who had fled to the USSR and been imprisoned by the NKVD, and Konstantin Shteppa, a Kiev University historian who had been Houtermans's cellmate; they used pseudonyms to protect their friends and colleagues still in the USSR.
"Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955, stationed in Berlin. In 1953, he was recruited by MI6 and used his job as a journalist as a cover for his spying. He left the world of espionage for history when he was sacked from the Telegraph in 1955, allegedly for offending the wife of the chairman of the newspaper". (Wikipedia)
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1924].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Romantic melodrama about two lovers separated by social barriers who endure hardship before finding happiness. A bestseller in its day, it is rarely seen now.
Detective Fiction
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1956.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
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.
A Romance of England under the Blitz
London [&c.], Hurst & Blackett, [1942].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Attractive jacket artwork on this war-time first edition.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1926].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in black and blocked in blind.
A scarce collection, not in listed in Shadows in the Attic nor Locke's Spectrum of Fantasy 1 to 3.
Detective Fiction
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1925.
First edition. Clipped autograph inscription from the author laid onto title-page. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Note from the author pasted onto title-page, wishing warmest greetings to a friend.
Modern Literature
Knight (Alanna, pseud. Gladys Allan Cleet) The Legend of the Loch
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1969.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards, gilt number '09 099480 9' stamped to lower board. Dust-jacket, priced 20s/£1.
The author's first book, weird & supernatural overtones. Winner of the 1968 Netta Muskett award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. An excellent copy.
Detective Fiction
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1926].
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author to a family friend. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A very good, inscribed first edition of this classic spy story; a mysterious man known as 'X' with a disfigured face who is blackmailing the British government to sabotage the British war effort.
Modern Literature
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1905].
First edition thus. 8vo. Original green cloth decorated in gilt.
Contains three separate supernatural/fantasy novelettes, "The Seventh Dream," "The Doctor's Secret," and "The Turkish Baths."
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Detective Fiction
London, Hurst & Blackett, [1949].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A great first UK edition of this biblio yarn inspired by the notorious literary forger Thomas J. Wise, by a prolific US author.
Modern Literature
London, Hurst & Blackett, 1918.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/ and stating '20th thousand'.
A later title, but a characteristically passionate & emotive novel by the author of the notorious The Quick or the Dead? (1888). Scarce in such an early issue dust-jacket.