Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1938].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
McKenna (1888–1967) was a prolific chronicler of English upper-class society whose 1917 novel Sonia: Between Two Worlds was a major bestseller (the tenth-best-selling novel in the US in 1918, filmed in 1921, and running through numerous UK printings). Breasted Amazon is one of several later McKenna novels centring on a highly cultured artist-protagonist with feet of clay, a recurring preoccupation of his 1930s work.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1926].
'5th thousand'. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6 and also stating '5th thousand'.
Attractive jacket artwork elevates this later printing of an uncommon, Hubin-listed crime title.
Children's Books
London, Hutchinson, 1970.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A Fenland ghost story for young adults, widely regarded by admirers of that tradition as one of the finest post-James novels in the ghost-story genre, ranked alongside Fritz Leiber's Our Lady of Darkness by James scholar Rosemary Pardoe.
Weird & Supernatural
A New Volume of Short Stories
London, Hutchinson, [1927].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Phillpotts' shorter work is where the strangeness lives: the man who wrote The Grey Room - the country-house bedroom that kills its occupants - kept an uncanny streak his rural sagas concealed, which is what puts this volume on the supernatural shelf and keeps Phillpotts, admired in his day by no less than Borges, alive with genre collectors after his mainstream reputation faded.
Horror & Gothic
London, Hutchinson, [1948].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12/6.
Arguably Wheatley's most genuinely frightening book, and the connoisseur's choice among his black magic titles: Toby Jugg, an RAF pilot paralysed by a spinal wound, lies helpless in a remote Welsh mansion where, night after night, something vast and spider-like presses at the moonlit window, and nobody believes him, which is of course the design. Paranoia, immobility, inheritance anxiety and creeping Satanic conspiracy, told through Toby's journal with real claustrophobic force; the BBC filmed it loosely in 2006 as The Haunted Airman, with Robert Pattinson suffering photogenically. The wraparound jacket by Frank C. Papé, a great fantasy illustrator famous for his illustrated Cabell editions, here doing nightmare duty, is among the most desirable of all Wheatley wrappers.
Non-Fiction
Sex, Courtship and Marriage
London, Hutchinson, 1954.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A seemingly uncommon work, placeable within a recognisable genre of British popular psychology publishing that flourished in the early 1950s in the wake of the Kinsey Reports and the broader post-war liberalisation of discussion about sex and personal relationships. Hutchinson were themselves active in this area, also publishing Eustace Chesser's The Sexual, Marital and Family Relationships of the English Woman in 1956.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [1927].
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A detective novel by the American collaborative writing team of Alice MacGowan and her sister Grace MacGowan Cooke.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Hutchinson, 1971.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
Forsyth's first novel, it won the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Novel and was immediately acclaimed as one of the finest thrillers of its generation. Adapted as a major film in 1973 and the inspiration for the TV series starring Eddie Redmayne in 2023.
(and other incidents)
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. With loosely inserted promotional flyer.
A collection of short stories by the brother of journalist Sir Philip Gibbs and novelist Arthur Hamilton Gibbs, often with a focus on relationships and romance. Excellent jacket artwork by Hawes.
Detective Fiction
A Murder Mystery
London, Hutchinson, [1930].
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Inspector Rae Norse investigates the murder of a controversial judge in a Southern American setting where voodoo practices create an atmosphere of menace.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1916.
First edition. 8vo. Original mauve cloth.
Rare. A novel completed by Frankau on her deathbed, about a female author on her deathbed who is inspired to write about the death of a female author.
Children's Books
London, Hutchinson, 1908.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
The second of two novels featuring Lady Noggs, the whimsical aristocratic child protagonist introduced in Lady Noggs, Peeress (1906).
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1941].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth.
Winifred Graham was an English novelist and anti-Mormon activist, born Matilda Winifred Muriel Graham on April 21, 1873, in London. She authored 88 books during her lifetime, encompassing romantic novels, thrillers, and critical works on various subjects.
Historical Fiction
A Romance of Life and Death
London, Hutchinson, 1895.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Historical fiction by Irish journalist, novelist, dramatist and poet, Frankfort Moore. "The book abounds with Gothic passages steeped in ritual eroticism...Egyptomania and Egyptology; occult and cult form, and ancient cults as a sociological and religious history of gothic taste." (The Palgrave Handbook of Steam Age Gothic, p.245)
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1923].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
One of several titles written by this husband & wife team, the former an Irish author of considerable literary output, the latter a renowned antiquarian (and swordsman).
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original buckram with leather spine label. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
'Written partly as a diary and partly in novel form Thoruna tells the amusing and piquant story of Sir Reginald H - who was ordered by his doctor to take a holiday and decided to go on a trip to Sweden. By accident he met Thoruna, a bright young thing whose trustee he was and, much to his embarrassment, she decided to accompany him.' (jacket blurb)
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, n.d..
Popular edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/-.
Popular edition of this crime thriller.
African literature
London, Hutchinson, 1962.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.
Onuora Nzekwu was a Nigerian author and educator, known for his works that explored Nigerian society and culture.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Native American detective Falcon and his indefatigable secretary take on faithless kidnappers. Attractive jacket artwork.
London, Hutchinson, 1915.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Title printed in red & black. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6s.
Albanesi was a popular bestselling novelist of the early twentieth century, highly readable, though never canonised, and early first editions in jacket are distinctly uncommon.
Non-Fiction
for remembrance of bygone scenes and circumstances
London, Hutchinson, 1927.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
Sir John W. Simpson, a leading architect, recorded his impressions of Paris and its vanished corners in this 1927 volume.
![Eleanor Morse, She Left Her Husband, first edition, [1934]](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87375-300x300.jpg)
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1934].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"...an exquisitely drawn picture of an unhappy marriage followed by a much-needed separation and offers an original solution to marital difficulties." (jacket blurb)
![P.G. Wodehouse, A Century of Humour, First edition, [1935].](https://lycanthiabooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/87341-300x300.jpg)
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial mustard-yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
This anthology, edited by the master humorist P.G. Wodehouse, gathers a wide selection of comic writing to showcase the breadth of English humour as it evolved into the 20th century, reflecting Wodehouse's own role not just as a comic novelist but also as a curator of the tradition he epitomised.
Detective Fiction
Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) A Case for Solomon
(and Theodore I. Terhune!)
London, Hutchinson, 1943.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
The third Terhune novel opens when Terhune discovers the body of Frank Smallwood, a seaman believed to have been murdered twenty years earlier. A cold-case investigation and court-room drama ensues.
Detective Fiction
Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) A Case of Books
London, Hutchinson, [1946].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
When Arthur Harrison, a book-collector client, is found stabbed and his library ransacked, Theodore Terhune suspects the killer was searching for a specific volume...
Detective Fiction
Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Work for the Hangman
(and Theodore I. Terhune!)
London, Hutchinson, [1944].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Uncommon first edition by the creator of Blackshirt.
Historical Fiction
Graeme (Bruce, pseud. Graham Montague Jeffries) Ten Trials to Tyburn
London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1945].
Early impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9/-.
This Terhune case begins with the death of "Peter the Hermit," a local vagrant. The police find a foreign newspaper and a jewelled comb on the body.
London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1942].
Early impression. With printed compliments slip signed by the author. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, with Hutchinson 4/- Novels price label.
In the first Theodore Terhune bibliomystery, bookseller-detective Terhune interrupts a robbery at the home of Helena Armstrong. He becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a missing key to a family vault and seven enigmatic clues that point to crimes both past and future.
Detective Fiction
Translated by George Sainsbury
London, Hutchinson, 1955.
First UK edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the translator. 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
This psychological thriller, by the duo later known for Diabolique and Hitchcock's Vertigo, follows inventor Richard Hermantier, blinded by a wartime explosion, who senses his business slipping away and begins to suspect infidelity and feel an unseen presence watching him; the narrative builds paranoia as he questions what is real.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1933].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
African literature
London, Hutchinson, 1961.First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.The first novel by Nigerian author Onoura Nzekwu, later republished by Heinemann as part of the important African Writers Series. The novel has been compared to Achebe's No Longer at Ease.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, 1971.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
In this sixth installment of the Inspector Wexford series, the detective investigates the disappearance of a child.
Modern Literature
A Romance of Married Life
London, Hutchinson, 1922.
23rd edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket.
This novel follows Peter Jackson, a successful cigar merchant, and his wife, Mary, as they navigate the challenges of marriage and business during World War I.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1927].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Gilbert Frankau (1884–1952) was a British novelist and poet, known for his war poetry and novels reflecting his experiences in World War I.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1963.
First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 16s.
The novel centers on Wilson Iyari, a Nigerian public relations officer whose personal and professional lives collide, leading to a crisis that challenges his ideals. Cyprian Ekwensi (1921–2007) was a prominent Nigerian author known for his urban-themed novels and contributions to African literature.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, [1939].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Drax's works are noted for their authentic depiction of naval life and have contributed to the maritime crime fiction subgenre.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, n.d..
First UK edition, '2nd Thousand'. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Native American detective Falcon and his indefatigable secretary take on faithless kidnappers. Attractive jacket artwork.
London, Hutchinson, [1935].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
First edition of this collectable anthology, featuring Anthony Berkeley, John Dickson Carr, Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and many many more of the biggest names in crime fiction.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, [1941].
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Winifred Graham was an English novelist and anti-Mormon activist, born Matilda Winifred Muriel Graham on April 21, 1873, in London. She authored 88 books during her lifetime, encompassing romantic novels, thrillers, and critical works on various subjects.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1965.
First UK edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 21s.
An attractive, inscribed first UK edition of the author's multivoiced narrative about Franklin Carey, a man, much like his creator, who inhabits the border regions between the cultures of Europe and America.
Tom Maschler (1933–2020) was a highly influential figure in British publishing, renowned in particular for his tenure as literary director at Jonathan Cape. He was instrumental in shaping modern publishing, discovering and championing some of the most iconic authors of the 20th century, including Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie. Maschler was also a key force behind the creation of the Booker Prize, which became one of the most prestigious literary awards globally. Known for his keen editorial eye and risk-taking, he played a pivotal role in establishing literary trends and elevating authors who would go on to define their eras.
Detective Fiction
London, Hutchinson, 1951.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
A collection of stories showcasing Woolrich's writing skills, ranging from eerie horror to classic crime noir.
Detective Fiction
and other stories
London, Hutchinson, [1937].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An experimental delve into the crime fiction sub-genres, by a prolific author who started his literary career as a War Poet.