Detective Fiction
Goodall (Cedric, pseud. Louis Charles Douthwaite) Without Trace
London, John Hamilton, [1938].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Scotland Yard recruits Inspector "Smiler" Herryot from the Birmingham City Police. Excellent dust-jacket design.
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, [1938].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Serial character Inspector Jackson of Scotland Yard ranges from London to Liverpool in this complicated crime caper.
Children's Books
London, John Hamilton, [1935].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in black to spine. Dust-jacket.
A hard book to find in the original dust-jacket, featuring attractive aeronautical artwork by Stanley Orton Bradshaw.
Detective Fiction
Wood (Eric, pseud. Frank Knowles Campling) Death of an Oddfellow
London, John Hamilton, [1938].
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.
Attractive jacket artwork graces this uncommon 'thirties title, featuring recurring characters Arnold Keene and Bernard Young.
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, [1928].
First edition. 8vo. Original dark red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An uncommon first edition, one of Hamilton's Sundial Editions. James Morgan Walsh (1897-1952) wrote crime thrillers with compelling spy and espionage elements.
Modern Literature
London, John Hamilton, [1938].
First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Hubin-listed crime fiction with a quasi-nautical element.
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
From Hamilton's Sundial Mystery Library series; a departure from Hamilton's more usual aeronautical vibe, and a seemingly scarce first edition in the original dust-jacket. A chance encounter with a sinister Chinese Secret Society sees the protagonist tossed into a world of intrigue, with a dash of romantic peril for good measure.
Modern Literature
London, John Hamilton, [1935].
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
A decent first edition of this adventure story by a British author who spent several years in Rhodesia working as a civil servant.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, John Hamilton, [1927].
First UK edition, a "Sundial Edition". Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth lettered and with publisher's device in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A rare jacketed edition of this sci-fi classic, originally published in serial and book form in Melbourne, Australia. The tale recounts the discovery of the last-but-one revenant of a lost civilisation, discovered in Australia's outback by a homesteader; the 'wonder-woman' discovered preserved underground is from an ancient race with a vastly superior technology than our own, but also a rather unfortunate penchant for eugenics and racism, putting humanity itself in terrible peril. The author has signed & inscribed the front endpaper in 1934, thanking the reader to help "bring water to a thirsty land". There is a small clipped portrait of the author tipped-in next to the inscription.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, John Hamilton, [1936].
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3s6d.
A solid first edition of a classic aviation tale by prolific writer George E. Rochester, drawing on his own experience in the Royal Flying Corps; bandit menace in the air above Tibet, bad Buddhists, and more…
War, Invasion & Spy
London, John Hamilton, [1936].
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Further aeronautical tales of peril from Rochester, drawing to some degree on his own experiences with the Royal Flying Corps. Jacket artwork by one of the best at this sort of thing, Howard Leigh.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, John Hamilton, [1936].
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth with black spine labels. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Howard and Carstairs face aerial threat from the eponymous pirates of the air, in this aviation thriller drawing upon the author's own experiences in the Royal Flying Corps.
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Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, John Hamilton, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A rare dust-jacket. One of this author's less common and more interesting titles, a Mad Scientist's attempts to block off the sun's rays and cause the end of the world. Produced for Hamilton's Sundial Mystery Library series.
London, John Hamilton, 1927.
First edition. 8vo. Origial blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
From Hamilton's Sundial Mystery Library series. "An experiment in sensational fiction in which careful and detailed character drawing comes second to an absorbing plot." (jacket blurb)
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, 1928.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
From Hamilton's Sundial Mystery Library series; a departure from Hamilton's more usual aeronautical vibe, and a seemingly scarce first edition in the original dust-jacket. A chance encounter with a sinister Chinese Secret Society sees the protagonist tossed into a world of intrigue, with a dash of romantic peril for good measure.
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A pleasing example of this first edition, seemingly one of only two titles by this author. A conspiracy to murder a leading art expert unravels... Scarce.
Detective Fiction
London, John Hamilton, [1939].
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
A striking dust-jacket design on this rare work set in Malaysia, a strange blend of murder mystery and the weird, with no copies in trade at the time of listing.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, John Hamilton, [1936].
First edition. Ace Series. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3s.6d.
A solid first edition of a classic aviation tale by prolific writer George E. Rochester, drawing on his own experience in the Royal Flying Corps; bandit menace in the air above Tibet, bad Buddhists, and more...
War, Invasion & Spy
London, John Hamilton, [1938].
First edition. 2pp. advertisements for the 'Ace Series'. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, dated 3s.6d.
'In a tiny plane, far above the Sahara, Michael Wright directs the operations of Doctor Oberlin's mighty fleet of bombers as it flies northward to encompass the destruction of Europe.' (jacket blurb)