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Children's Books
London, Adam & Charles Black, 1902 [but 1915].
First reissue. 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth lettered in gilt.
The first reissue, in colour pictorial blue cloth, using the 1902 first edition sheets. Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or 'pots', are stolen from the cricket pavilion
Horror & Gothic
London, Odhams Press, n.d..
'Deluxe' edition. 8vo. Original faux leather cloth. Dust-jacket, stating 'De Luxe'.
An attractive collected edition of Poe's short fiction, bringing together key tales of horror, psychological disturbance, and early detective narrative.
Modern Literature
London, Michael Joseph, 1939.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.
A nostalgic novel recounting the life of a Welsh mining family through the eyes of its youngest son, charting industrial hardship, communal solidarity and social change. It was adapted into the celebrated 1941 film directed by John Ford, winning multiple Academy Awards.
Non-Fiction
Socialism and the English Genius
London, Martin Secker & Warburg/Searchlight Books, 1941.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2s.
A wartime political essay arguing for a distinctly English form of democratic socialism, written in the context of the Second World War and the threat of fascism.
London, Cassell, 1931.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
A polemical historical study examining the decline of the Russian imperial family, combining personal recollection with political critique of the Romanov dynasty. Radziwill was a Polish aristocrat with close connections to European royal circles.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.
An attractive first edition, about a man's realisation that he is not an island - topical themes regarding children refugees.
Modern Literature
London, Peter Owen, 1973.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.75.
A satirical novel following an impulsive young Tokyo man sent to teach in a provincial school, by Japan's first modern novelist.
Detective Fiction
London, Heinemann, 1929.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"A racing motor drive by night down to an empty house. A masked man, and a murder." (jacket blurb).
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Heinemann, 1936.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A novel of the Irish Revolutionary period between 1916 & 1922.
Weird & Supernatural
London, The Literary Press Limited, n.d. [c.1902].
Early UK edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket.
The attempted conversion of a celebrated courtesan by the ascetic monk Paphnuce, a mission that exposes the instability of faith, desire and spiritual pride. One of France's best-known works.
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Dent, 1939.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A novel set against the backdrop of the American automobile industry, exploring labour relations, industrial power and economic tension in late-1930s Detroit.
...with an introduction by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris...
London, Michael Joseph, 1946.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A wartime memoir by the commander of RAF No. 617 Squadron, recounting his role in the 1943 Dambusters raid and other operations during the Second World War.
Detective Fiction
London, John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1918.
Fourth edition. 8vo. Advertisements. Original dark grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
The fourth edition of the author's highly collectable first novel, here in the extremely rare jacket.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Dennis Dobson, 1965.
First UK edition, first impression. Signed by the author on title-page. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
A science-fiction novella set on a distant planet where genetically engineered dragons are bred and weaponised in an ongoing war as a proxy for their controllers.
Historical Fiction
Translated from the Russian by Natalie A. Duddington
London [&c.], J.M. Dent, 1927.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
Merezhkovsky (1865–1941) was a major Russian Symbolist writer and religious thinker, and this work forms part of his broader interest in religious history and spiritual crisis.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Newnes, 1901.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. White endpapers. Original blue cloth stamped and lettered in gilt.
First edition of Wells' pioneering science-fiction novel recounting the lunar journey of the inventor Cavor and the businessman Bedford, whose discovery of the anti-gravitational substance "cavorite" enables space travel and leads to contact with the subterranean Selenite civilisation.
Detective Fiction
London, Collins Crime Club, 1953.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 10s 6d.
A poisoned nursery rhyme leads detective Miss Marple to untangle a web of deceit and murder within a wealthy family, uncovering dark secrets along the way.
Historical Fiction
London, Arrow Books, 1964.
Arrow Books edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
Matters was an Australian-born journalist and labour activist, and his book became one of the more frequently cited Ripper theories, influencing later writers despite its speculative nature.
Detective Fiction
Donovan (Dick, pseud. J. E. Preston Muddock) The Turning Wheel.
A story of the Charn Hall inheritance
London, F.V. White, 1912.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A mystery novel built around inheritance, secrecy and family conflict. A solid example of a novel from the late Victorian and Edwardian tradition of popular mystery fiction that bridged sensation novels and early detective stories.
Detective Fiction
London, R.A. Everett, 1903.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original pictorial red cloth.
A collection of short stories framed around the professional experiences of a magistrate, which Threlfall was following a career as a trade unionist and politician.
Detective Fiction
From a dealer's note book
London, Ward, Lock & Co Limited, [1894].
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
A collection of crime and adventure stories presented as episodes from the notebook of a jewel dealer. Pemberton (1863–1950) was a prolific novelist and journalist, best remembered for his adventure and mystery writing.
Weird & Supernatural
Westminster, A. Constable & Co., 1894.
First edition, issued as part of the Acme library series. Small 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered and stamped in gilt.
A fine portrait of the lingering belief in the occult that haunted the Victorian Age. The story explores themes of psychological manipulation and control, as the main character finds himself caught in a disturbing and dangerous situation, while struggling to maintain his scientific rationality and personal relationships.
Modern Literature
A tale of the seaboard
London & New York, Harper & Brothers, 1904.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Set in the fictional South American republic of Costaguana, Nostromo explores political corruption, imperialism, and moral decay through the fate of a charismatic dockworker entrusted with a fortune in silver.
Detective Fiction
Early stories from Black Mask
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1949.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00.
A landmark anthology collecting early hard-boiled crime stories originally published in Black Mask magazine, the volume showcases foundational writers of American tough-guy detective fiction, including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and their contemporaries.
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.
Detective Fiction
New York, George H. Doran, 1925.
First edition, first printing. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
Introducing the author's most popular characters, Madame Rosika Storey and her assistant Bella Brickley.
Modern Literature
London, Edward Arnold, 1908.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth.
Forster's best-known and most accessible novel follows the emotional and moral awakening of Lucy Honeychurch, a young Englishwoman whose experiences in Italy challenge the social conventions of Edwardian England.
Detective Fiction
Burnaby (Nigel, pseud. Harold Picton Ellett) The Secret of Matchams
London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1934.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6.
An unpopular landlord's body is found is the woods, and multiple suspects lead to multiple dead ends for the police... A scarce title in jacket.