Modern Literature
Translated by Joyce Davis
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1927.
First English edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Romantic adventure set in 'Black Algiers'.
Detective Fiction
...concluded by Torquemada
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1937.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
Regarded as Fletcher's most "atmospheric and engrossing" mystery of the later years, finished posthumously by Edward Powys Mathers, aka 'Torquemada'.
Detective Fiction
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1934.
'Crime Circle' issue. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, stating 'overseas edition' on spine.
Quite cool jacket artwork graces this uncommon 'thirties crime title.
Detective Fiction
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1924.
First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Set in Southeast Asia, The Black Parrot is a romantic adventure novel that follows an American protagonist through the exotic landscapes of the Golden Chersonese (modern-day Malaysia). The narrative weaves themes of colonial intrigue and the allure of the Orient...
Detective Fiction
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1937.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.
Set in the village of Taos, New Mexico, the story revolves around the murder of Edward Ponsonby, a local character found decapitated. A local boy, now Deputy Sheriff, takes on the investigation, navigating through a series of challenges to solve the crime.
Detective Fiction
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1938.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
Grierson authored over 40 detective novels, often featuring series characters like Superintendent Andrew Ash and Inspector Sims.
Modern Literature
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1925.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original grey cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
"A vigorous story of crime and social service in East London." (jacket blurb)
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1928.
First English edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
A very nice, jacketed first edition in English of Diehl's novelised take on the life of Heinrich Heine.
Modern Literature
A Book of Confessions
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1924.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale sage cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Highly attractive example of the first edition of this novel by the author of Limehouse Nights. The work describes growing up in London's East End, and is often believed to be largely autobiographical, although the author would comment in later years, "this has been taken to be my personal story, but it is a mixture. A few passages here and there have some autobiographical basis, but the treatments is at five or six removes from the actual." Scarce in the jacket, let alone in such condition.
Detective Fiction
Erskine (Firth, pseud. Gladys Erskine & Ivan Firth) Naked Murder
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in red. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
The criminologist Cyrus K. Mantel investigates a serial decapitator.
Modern Literature
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1929.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractive first UK edition of this collection of short stories, mostly based around the islands of the Pacific.
Weird & Supernatural
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1929.
First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, with 'overseas edition' printed to spine.
A very good first edition of this uncommon weird & supernatural title about the transference of a soul and the resultant implications.
Modern Literature
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1925.
First edition. 8vo. Original pale sage cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractive dust-jacket, a love story set against the Matrimonial Causes Act of 1923.
Modern Literature
Being the second part of 'The Realists'
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1927.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
An attractive Abbey jacket graces this work by prolific author McKenna, following the political career of Ambrose Sheridan.
Detective Fiction
London, Thornton Butterworth, [c.1934]..Crime Circle Novels series. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.An attractive edition of this teasingly lycanthropic novel, translated from the original French. The jacket design for the series is by Bip Pares, whose work also graced the jackets for Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker and James Hilton's Mr Chips titles, amongst many others.
Detective Fiction
London, Thornton Butterworth, 1930.
First edition. 8vo. 1p. advertisements. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.
A tale of espionage, romance and Eastern exoticism, set just before the outbreak of WWI. An excellent copy.