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£195



London, Heinemann, 1958.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 15s.

A very good first edition of Greene's blackly comic espionage thriller, set amid the vice and squalor of pre-revolutionary Havana.

£425

First edition.
London, Heinemann, 1939
Basis of the 1945 film starring Lauren Bacall and Peter Lorre.

£395

First edition.
London. Heinemann, 1939
The basis for the 1945 film Confidential Agent, starring Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou and Peter Lorre. In the book, the nationality of the agent is not stated; in the film, he is Spanish.

£295


and other essays
London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1951.

First edition. 8vo. Original pale cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.

A handsome first edition of this collection, in which Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart.

£125



London, John Hamilton, [1939].

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, 7/6.

That "debonair, monocled dude of South Africa", the Major, is back.

£150



London, John Hamilton, [1934].

First edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6 to inside front flap with later price-sticker of 1/- to spine.

A decent first edition of this story set in South Africa, by a British author who spent several years in Rhodesia working as a civil servant.

£95



London, John Hamilton, [1935].

First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.

A decent first edition of this adventure story by a British author who spent several years in Rhodesia working as a civil servant.

£195


his travels and perils
London, S.O. Beeton, n.d. [1865/66].

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth, gilt tooled spine.

The rare true first edition in book form of this adventure tale, serialised previously in Boys Own in 1865. Ward Lock took over Beeton in 1866 and republished the title that year under their own imprint.

Detective Fiction

Grey (Cecil) Spindrift

£135



London, Herbert Jenkins, 1936.

First edition. 8vo. Original mustard yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

A splendid first edition of this romantic novel about a young musical protégé's adventures.

£295



London, Philip Allan, 1937.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.

A collection of short stories, drawn from the case-book of Gribble's series character Superintendent Anthony Slade.

Modern Literature

Grier (Sydney) Writ in Water

£325

First edition.
Edinburgh & London. William Blackwood, 1913
very rare in dust-jacket, correctly priced at 6/- "It would need more than a ten years' change of date and a series of pseudonyms to conceal the fact that Sydney Grier has taken the events which happened in the Jamaica rising of the early 'sixties as her theme and Governor Eyre as her hero. " [Spectator, October 1913]

Illustrated Books

Grist (Paul) Short Stories.

£125


One
Sheffield, Dancing Elephant Enterprises, June 1986.

Large 8vo. Comic-book format. Original pictorial wrappers.

An early publication by Grist, who would garner fame as the creator of hard-boiled police series 'Kane' and his unorthodox superhero series 'Jack Staff', published under his own imprint Dancing Elephant Enterprises.

£395



London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1919.

First edition. 8vo. Advertisements. Original blue cloth ruled in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7s.

A very good early dust-jacket, uncommon thus. This collection of tale comes from the pen of Scottish author Gerald Grogan, author of the sci-fi novel A Drop in Infinity (1915); the author was killed in the First World War, in 1918.

War, Invasion & Spy

Groom (Pelham) Whistling Wires

£150



London, Andrew Melrose, [1935].

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in yellow. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

Compelling jacket artwork complements this uncommon tale of aerial combat and British pluck.

£395



Bristol & London, J.W. Arrowsmith; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, [1892].

First edition, early issue. 8vo. Original orange decorative cloth.

The Grossmiths' only published work, a classic satire on the pretensions of the English middle class.

£200



London, Quality Press, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket,

Pleasing jacket artwork graces this tale of town life in the Basque country on the eve of the Spanish War.

£200



London, Robert Hale, 1942.

First edition, blind-stamped 'file copy' on front free endpaper. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

An industrial tale of the big corporates versus the humble worker, set against a backdrop of the paper-mills of southern England.

£275



London, Collins, 1940

First edition. 8vo. 3pp. advertisements. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7'6.

A very good first edition of this Ironsides title, distinctly uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Victor Gunn was one of several pseudonyms for Edwy Brooks, alongside his perhaps more well-known moniker 'Berkeley Gray'.

£150



London, Collins Crime Club, 1947.

First edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced 3s.6d.

A pleasing first edition of the twelfth novel in the author's "Ironsides" Cromwell series.

£95


An Amusement
London, Secker, 1927.

First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

The first edition of the second book by US journalist & writer John Gunther, seemingly preceding the first US edition.

£225

First edition.
London. Columbine Publishing Company, [?1940]
This is the correct first issue wrapper and rare as such. Titles published by this publisher are sought after due to their lurid jacket art of which this is a great example

£250



London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914

Hodder & Stoughton Sevenpenny library, first edition thus. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.

First published in U.K. in 1889, this is the first edition where getting a jacketed example is feasible.

A long 'short' story featuring Allan Quatermain in which following his father's death, Allan fights with Zulus aides by Hans, rescues and marrow who becomes the mother of his son Harry, and eventually loses her because of the jealousy of the Baboon woman.

£250

Second impression, Stanley Paul, [1930]. The wrapper is unpriced but identical to first (which is priced 7/6 on spine) and list of titles on back panel. The lack of a price may imply it was a copy intended for export.

£675



London, Cassell, 1920

First edition. 8vo. Original light brown cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 8/6 net on spine.

An Allan Quatermain novel, direct sequel to The Ivory Child. An interesting way of resurrecting the character of Allan away from the period and Africa of his day.

Rare in jacket.

£350

First edition.
London. Hutchinson, [1926]
The continuing adventures of Allan Quatermain, set in the middle of the Dark Continent ruled by a huge, pale man with a strange knowledge of future events. One of two works published posthumously.

£395

A Detective Story London, Heinemann, 1937. First UK edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket. A woman dead in the sleet at the bottom of an empty swimming pool, with two bullets in her body, but only one wound...

£135



London, Cassell, 1926.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth.

The first edition of one of Hall's better known works, after The Well of Loneliness, about a waiter who becomes disgusted with his job and goes to live in the forest as a hermit.

£225



London, Heinemann, 1926.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

A collection of short stories by the author of The Well of Loneliness.

£150



London, Cape, 1932.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7s6d.

An early work by Well of Loneliness author Radclyffe Hall. The work's deeply religious theme was to prove so affecting to the author that she actually claimed to have suffered from stigmata whilst writing it.

£110

First edition, first printing. London, William Heinemann Ltd, 1936 'Radclyffe Hall has had the courage to set down the thoughts and conversations of her characters without censorship. Here is English as it is really spoken by the poor in cottage, field and inn' (dust-jacket) Dust-jacket by Edgar Holloway.

Weird & Supernatural

Hamel (Frank) Human Animals.

£895



London, Rider, 1915

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket correctly priced at 6/- on spine.

Paraphrasing the book's preface....''From the abundant records and traditions dealing with the curious belief that certain men and women can transform themselves into animals, the author has collected a number of instances and examples which throw fresh light on the subject both from the point of view of folklore and occultism''

There are chapters on the ''Bush-Soul," on human souls in animal bodies, on animal dances, the "Were-Wolf Trials," on witches, on cat and cock phantoms, on the "Phantasmal Ghost" as well as bird-women.

The book is uncommon without a jacket, it is genuinely rare with one. A remarkable survival.

Rare in jacket.

£100



London, Hutchinson, n.d. [c.1930].

Third edition (stated). Small 8vo. Original cloth, gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 2/- and stating '5th Thousand'.

An early edition of this collaboration between the Hanshews, scarce in the original dust-jacket - with artwork by the illustrator Joseph Abbey.

Detective Fiction

Hardy (William) Lady Killer

£75



London, Hamish Hamilton, 1957.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12s6d.

Maths meets murder in this crime fiction debut by an American author.

£150



London, Jonathan Cape, 1930.

First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

Lovely jacket artwork graces this intriguing tale of drastically accelerated evolution; winner of a £1000 literary prize at the time.

£475

First edition.
London. Dent, 1910
The author’s first short story collection containing some fine examples of ghost and horror stories including the much anthologised tale, ‘August Heat’ (Shadows in the Attic p.247).

£95



London, Becks, 1950.

Sole edition. Signed by the author. 4to. Original cloth-backed boards.

Historian Fea's homage to Lewis Carroll's classics for children, replacing Alice with 'Little Lu'. An attractive copy.