Weird & Supernatural
London, Macmillan, 1932.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth decorated in black to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.A stunning example of this wonderful Walpole edition, featuring the excellent jacket artwork by Rex Whistler. The tales present are:Maradick at Forty The Prelude to Adventure Portrait of a man with red hair Above the dark circus
Detective Fiction
London, Readers Library, [?1934].
Readers Library edition. Small 8vo. Original burgundy cloth lettered and ruled in gilt. Dust-jacket.
Attractive edition of this Hubin-listed college mystery, first published in the UK in 1925.
Modern Literature
London, Hutchinson, 1966.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards lettered in orange to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 25s.
An early novel by prolific Guiana-born author Nicole, set in British Guiana between 1936 and 1950.
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Children's Books
Comprising: Over Sea, Under Stone; The Dark is Rising; Greenwitch; The Grey King; Silver on the Tree
London, Chatto & Windus, 1974-1973-1977.
Over Sea, Under Stone, first edition thus, the rest first editions, first impressions except The Grey King (2nd impression). Together 5 vol. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jackets.
A complete set of Susan Cooper's modern classic of children's literature, introducing readers to a parallel world of old magic and an epic battle between light & dark.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Hutchinson, n.d..
'New Edition (6th thousand)'. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.
Clarke specialised in Catholic literature, but this title also brings in supernatural elements via a seance. Uncommon.
Modern Literature
A Dream Story
London, Longmans, Green, 1911.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original red pictorial cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, with 2/6 price label to spine.
One of the Allan Quartermain creator's more existential works, scarce in the original jacket.
Modern Literature
A Romance of the Shallows
Garden City/New York, Doubleday, Page, 1920.
First US edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth blocked and lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced $2.
Attractive first US edition of Conrad's last volume in the unofficial Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar.
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Modern Literature
London, Heinemann, [1937].
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket.
Australian historical romance, made into a film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1949.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Robert Hale, [1975].
First UK edition. 8vo. Ex-library. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced £3.50.
Containing some of Long's best stories, together with an introduction which casts light on his early life and work.
Modern Literature
London, Cassell, 1916.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, blind-tooled to upper cover and lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket.
Well's account of the personal and societal changes experienced by a writer and his family in Essex during the First World War; uncommon in the original dust-jacket.
Detective Fiction
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3/6.
Hubin-listed non-series crime caper by Fairlie.
Modern Literature
London, Constable, 1947.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.
Very good first edition of this novel set in 1943 in the fictional town of Thames Lockdon (based on Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire).
African literature
Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1968.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $4.95.
First edition of the renowned debut novel by Ghanaian writer Armah, subsequently republished in the influential Heinemann African Writers Series in 1969. The novel tells the story of an unnamed man who struggles to reconcile himself with the reality of post-independence Ghana.
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Modern Literature
Viewed from Three Angles
London, Heinemann, 1933.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
Comprising a prologue, three books and an epilogue. The three books have no direct connection with each other, but instead form three separate short novels with a common theme.
Modern Literature
With foreword by Lord Beaverbrook
London & Edinburgh, Chambers, 1920.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket.
The first novel by journalist and politician Beverley Baxter (1891-1964).
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Harrap, 1935.
Third Harrap printing. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
"rich in detail, ingenious and well plotted, but weak in characterization at times." (Bleiler)
Detective Fiction
London, Cassell, 1946.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractive first UK edition of this Blochman crime classic.
Detective Fiction
(The Perfect Crime)
[London], Detective Story Club, n.d. [c.1928].
Film tie-in edition. Small 8vo. Original black cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Dust-jacket.
Attractive film tie-in edition of this Zangwill title, originally published in book form in 1892.
Sports & Pastimes
Illustrative of the Wild Life of a Hunter
London, Ackermann, 1841.
First edition. Folio. Original blind-tooled green cloth, lettered in gilt to upper cover, rebacked in later green cloth.
The attractive plates of hunting scenes illustrate sporting adventures on the Bontebok Flats in Kaffaria, near the Kat River Settlement. The book was written and sketched on the spot and is valued for its record of this part of South Africa in its early years of the nineteenth century.