War, Invasion & Spy
Armstrong (Anthony) and Bruce Graeme. When the Bells Rang, A Tale of What Might Have Been.
First edition.
London, Harrap, 1943.
The authors imagine the consequences of a Nazi invasion ultimately defeated. A rare title listed in Bleiler but not in Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition.
London, Paladin Press, 1951.
A novel set in the ruins of post war Berlin in which a war weary population live in cellars beneath the rubble of their devastated homes. Featuring the Wesen family, it provides a vivid depiction of the struggle between the Communists and the Free Democracy of the West for the possession of a bewildered people.
Rare in jacket. No copies online at time of listing.
Weird & Supernatural
First edition.
London, Macmillan, 1914.
A collection of three long tales and a couple of short stories. The weird fiction historian ST Joshi has acclaimed Incredible Adventures as possibly "the premier weird collection of this or any other century’’.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition.
London, Grant Richards, 1915.
Accounts of trench warfare on the Western Front during WW1. Uncommon in the dust jacket especially one as good as this.
Modern Literature
First edition.
London, Peter Davies, 1930.
The author’s first novel, the bizarre, satirical humour of which shocked many. Listed in Bleiler.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, John Long, 1937.
A Hubin-listed murder mystery. The only one written by the author whose real name was Richard Henry Horsfield.
It is set in the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada and features an Eskimo detective called Nootka. A wealthy mining prospector enlists the help of nine other claim-stalkers, four of whom are subsequently murdered by methods as novel as they are gruesome. Two of them take place in ‘impossible’ circumstances.
Very rare in jacket.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1935.
A collection of four criminous short stories listed in Hubin, the eponymous first of which concerns the battle between Sir Harker Bellamy, the famous secret service chief known as ‘The Mole’ and The Priest’ a daring and resourceful foreign spy and plotter.
Rare in such a well preserved jacket.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Collins, 1947.
Stephen Maddock was a pseudonym of JM Walsh and used for his more explicitly criminous titles.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1940.
The second of the novels featuring amateur female detective Jane Carberry.
Rare in jacket. No copies online at time of listing.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Cassell, 1917.
A collection of eleven tales, one of which is a locked room mystery and two of which have definite weird content. Not mentioned by Bleiler.
“The Mystery of Howard Romaine”
involves the disappearance of a coffin and a body from a locked room (Adey p.300)
The Cuckoo Clock" is a tale of delirium involving the transmigration of a soul into a cuckoo clock. "The Fatal Fairy" is about a man who kidnaps a fairy at dawn, whereupon it turns into a monstrous baby vulture -- until he releases it a day later.
Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree was an English actor and theatre manager. This collection appeared in the year of his death.
Very scarce in jacket.