Detective Fiction
London, Newnes, 1939.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
A seemingly scarce first edition, the jacket suggesting that the author is in fact 'a well-known fiction author'. An ingenious tale, with a dash of humour, plus Abbey artwork!
Detective Fiction
[pp.210-224 in The Strand Magazine, vol.LXV
London, Newnes, January - June 1923].
First edition. 4to. Publisher's bevelled pale blue pictorial cloth blocked in black & gilt.
An unsettling, cautionary Sherlock Holmes tale about drug-fuelled lust...and a certain amount of monkey business. Included in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Other authors present in this volume include P.G. Wodehouse (including 'Jeeves Takes Charge'), Aldous Huxley and E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Detective Fiction
[pp.288-298 in The Strand Magazine, vol.LXII]
London, Newnes, July - December 1921.
First edition. 4to. Publisher's bevelled pale blue pictorial cloth blocked in black & gilt.
Classic Sherlock Holmes, weaving deception to apprehend a jewel-thief and would-be murderer; one of only two Holmes stories written in the third-person. Included in The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (1927). Other authors present in this volume include P.G. Wodehouse (including 'Clicking of Cuthbert'), Edgar Wallace and E. Phillips Oppenheim.
Detective Fiction
in The Strand, from August 1901 to April 1902
London, Newnes, 1901-2.
2 vols. First edition (preceding the first book form edition). Large 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
The Hound of the Baskervilles first appeared thus in serialised format in The Strand magazine between 1901 & 1902, before getting its own rather handsome book edition of its own! One of the best Sherlock Holmes stories, in its original published format and in unusually good condition.
Children's Books
London, Newnes, 1945.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The third of the author's 'Lone Pine' series, set in Shropshire.