A Diary of Tragic Adventure
London, John Murray, 1937.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6s.
The tragic true story of Edgar Christian, who, along with his cousin John Hornby and another companion, starved to death in the Barren Lands of the Canadian Arctic during an ill-fated expedition in the late 1920s. This edition had sections removed, possibly due to perceived implications of homosexuality, with a fuller version published in 1980 as Death in the Barren Ground.
Modern Literature
London, John Murray, 1931.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
One of two novels by Heseltine written under the pen-name 'Jane Dashwood'. '...the study of the events of twenty-four hours in the life of an English family, is beautiful and moving, written with a delicate precision and an insight into human nature that are remarkable.' (jacket).
Detective Fiction
Some Reminiscences of Sherlock Holmes.
London, John Murray, 1917
First edition. 8vo. 6pp. advertisements. Original cloth.
A collection of previously published Sherlock Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, including the titular short story, 'His Last Bow: The War Service of Sherlock Holmes'.
Detective Fiction
London, John Murray, 1929,
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Rare in dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, John Murray, 1940.
Cheap Edition reprint. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/- with 2/6 price sticker overlaid.
A neat edition of Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes tale The Sign of Four, with the iconic dust-jacket.
War, Invasion & Spy
Written by himself. Foreword by Field-Marshal Earl Haig.
London, John Murray, 1924
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 15/-.
A scarce work in the original dust-jacket; an impressive autobiographical study by a man of equally impressive military standing, with a career spanning almost 35 years and seeing action in India, Africa and Sudan, as well as service in New Zealand and Cyprus. The foreword is by Field-Marshal Douglas Haig, a divisive figure in military history, garnering the unfavourable, and possibly unfair, moniker 'The Butcher of the Somme' for his strategic role in WW1.
Detective Fiction
Lees (Hannah, pseud. Elizabeth Head Fetter) and Lawrence Bachmann. Death in the Doll’s House
London, John Murray, 1944.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Psychological elements in a murder mystery involving a six-year-old child... basis for the 1950 film Shadow on the Wall.
Horror & Gothic
London, John Murray, 1922.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt.
A scarce golfing murder mystery set on a links in Cornwall during the Miners' Strike, and featuring a shell-shocked war veteran.
London, John Murray, 1940.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped.
An important work in which the author describes her travels in the late 1930s through what is now Yemen and depicts the culture of the region.
London, John Murray, 1937.
First UK edition, second enlarged edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s 5d.
Scarce in the dust-jacket. This 'second edition' builds considerably upon the Baghdad edition of 1932, including the addition of ten sketches.