Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1972.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced £2.20.
Macabre May-Day rites in Norfolk...Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley investigates.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
Murder mystery set amongst beautiful Oxfordshire villages. A genuinely nice copy.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1954.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
The 27th title in Mitchell's long-running series featuring the psychoanalyst and amateur sleuth Mrs Bradley.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1978.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced £4.25.
Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley investigates in a crime thriller set in Cornwall.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1977.
First edition. 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket, priced £3.75.
A nice copy of this later Mrs Bradley title by "The Great Gladys".
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1960.
First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 13s6d.
Dame Beatrice Lestrange Bradley is on the case in this tale of buried Roman treasure and murder.
Detective Fiction
London, Michael Joseph, 1978.
First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An attractive Mrs Bradley first edition. A ghost-hunt in the Norfolk countryside starts as a joke but ends in a murder.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Sheed & Ward, 1935.
First edition. Inscribed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
"In 1935, Mitchell's book Traveller in Time, set in Ireland in 1942, explores a fantastic development of the age of television in the context of Irish history. Colm MacColgan, her traveller, uses his invention of "Tempevision" to tune in to events at different times and places in the past, observing the impacts of the Irish around Europe and beyond." (Wikipedia)
Modern Literature
London, Macmillan and Co, 1940. First film tie-in edition.
Detective Fiction
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6 with 'reduced price' sticker to spine.
Cool jacket artwork graces this uncommon oriental thriller.
War, Invasion & Spy
First edition. London & Glasgow, Blackie & Son Limited, [1932] An attractive early jacketed work on aviation, in the rare dust-jacket.by Leslie Carr (more well-known perhaps for his depictions of locomotives).
Children's Books
London [&c.], George G. Harrap, 1937
First UK edition. 8vo. Colour frontispiece. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
A lovely first UK edition of this title by the creator of Anne of Green Gables.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
First edition.
London, Burke, 1962.
Uncommon in jacket.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Faber, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.
A very good first edition of an intriguing sci-fi title with Christian apologetical overtones.
Detective Fiction
London, Aldus Publications, 1949.
First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced at 7/6.
A tale of fatal attraction on Fleet Street. An uncommon imprint.
Detective Fiction
London, Evans Brothers, 1951.
First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 9/6.
An accomplished police procedural, the first of only two novels featuring Detective Inspector Luccan of Scotland Yard.
Detective Fiction
London, Sampson Low, Marston, 1949.
First edition. 8vo. 1p. advertisement. Original faux-morocco red cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8s. 6d.
Vintage Morland, packed with thrills and told with easy humour.
Detective Fiction
First edition.
London, Cassell, 1935.
The Phantom Gunman is the author’s first crime novel and imagines what would happen if Chicago gangsters were to come over to London. Features serial character Mrs Pym.
Exceptionally scarce in a jacket
Detective Fiction
First edition. London, Methuen 1922 A Hubin listed mystery in the very elusive jacket which has some visual similarity to the jacket design of ‘Mysterious Affair at Styles’, Agatha Christie’s first novel, published two years earlier. John Moroso was a New York based writer who contributed to various publications in the 1910s and 1920s and also wrote a story about life in an east side New York City ghetto titled The Stumbling Herd, which was made into a silent film in 1926
Modern Literature
London, Hammond & Hammond, 1953.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original burgundy boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
The first UK edition, drawing on the author's own experiences on the US Navy. Morris would subsequently work for the CIA in anti-espionage work, before garnering more fame as the author of the first truly modern history of the Anglo-Zulu war.
Detective Fiction
London, Ward, Lock & Bowden, 1894.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth.
An excellent first edition of this collection of detective stories by Arthur Morrison, featuring the titular Martin Hewitt, a private detective who uses his powers of observation and deduction to solve crimes. A Queen's Quorum Cornerstone.
African literature
and other stories
[Nigeria], Western Region, Ibadan, Ministry of Education, [1961].
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial wrappers.
The scarce second collection of stories by South African writer, educationalist, artist and activist Mphahlele, celebrated as the Father of African Humanism and considered one of the founding figures of modern African literature. The collection was printed in Nigeria, where Mphahlele had taken refuge in 1957, and features several of most important stories, including the title story and 'We'll Have Dinner at Eight'.
Modern Literature
London, Faber & Faber, 1959.
First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in white to spine. Dust-jacket.
An autobiographical recounting of the author's first-hand experiences of apartheid in South Africa.
First edition.
London, Blackie & Son, 1934
A rare Golden Age detective title centred on what happened to Simon Ewing at five minutes to five. Various people came and went and met face to face in his flat.
Modern Literature
London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1925].
First UK edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
An uncommon edition in the original dust-jacket, with incorporates attractive artwork by Ellen Edwards. The book was transferred to the silent screen in the same year, starring Leatrice Joy.
Detective Fiction
and other Ghost Stories
London, Dennis Dobson, 1949.
First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in silver to spine. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 8s6d.
A scarce collection of ghost stories, written whist the author was a prisoner of war: "The stories incorporate many references to Munby's bibliographic interests, while the title story draws on specialist knowledge learned from his father, a professional architect. Although heavily influenced by the atmosphere and style of [M.R.] James's tales, Munby's works are not simply imitative but possesses a subtle and distinct character of their own." (Wilson, Shadows in the Attic, p.373-374).
Detective Fiction
New York, Appleton-Century, 1932.
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.
One of the few Mundy titles to be serialised after publication in book-form. A Criminal Investigation Division of India caper, featuring Chullunder Ghose, and a Thuggee sect.
Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the 'Jimgrim' series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.
Weird & Supernatural
New York, Appleton-Century, 1935.
First edition. 8vo. Original yellow pictorial cloth. Dust-jacket.
"Perhaps the most intensely mythic and symbolic of all Mundy's work." (Taves, Philosophy Into Popular Fiction: Talbot Mundy and The Theosophical Society)
Talbot Mundy was an English writer of adventure fiction. Based for most of his life in the United States, he also wrote under the pseudonym of Walter Galt. Best known as the author of King of the Khyber Rifles and the 'Jimgrim' series, much of his work was published in pulp magazines.
Modern Literature
London, Chatto & Windus, 1956.
First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.
An attractive first edition of the author's second novel, in the wonderful Edward Bawden dust-jacket.
Children's Books
London [&c.], A. & C. Black, 1921.
First edition. Small 8vo. Colour plates. Original boards with onlaid colour pictorial title to upper cover. Dust-jacket, with price-sticker 6d to upper panel.
An excellent copy of this little book recounting the adventures of Laura the tarantula, extremely unusual in the original jacket and in such condition.
Weird & Supernatural
First edition. Collection of eighteen stories.
London, Longmans, 1930
"Short stories with an Egyptian setting, some of which are fantasy and weird, and some at least of which first appeared in magazines under the pen name of 'Abu Nadaar' ..." - Locke, A Spectrum of Fantasy, p. 161. The title story was reprinted in POWERS OF DARKNESS (1934), one of Philip Allan's anthologies in the "Creeps" series. Rare in d/w
War, Invasion & Spy
London, Martin Secker, October 1931.
First English edition, second printing. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Wonderful jacket artwork on this story of a political assassin during the few days before the shooting of a Minister of State.
Modern Literature
and other Tales of the East.
London, Heath Cranton, [1925].
First edition, first impression, signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Colour plates. Original brown cloth blocked in red.
Oriental tales in the spirit of The Arabian Nights, with five four-colour plates. The author has inscribed the front free endpaper 'to George & Edith Kydd', dated 1927.
Detective Fiction
First edition, Lovat Dickinson, 1937. A scarce memoir of the Spanish Civil War from the American-born novelist, Helen Nicholson (Baroness de Zglinitzki), who was caught up in the conflict while visiting her daughter and son-in-law in Granada. Nicholson and her family were unabashedly supportive of Franco and the Nationalist. Rare in this condition and with the added association of being inscribed by the author’s daughter in the year of publication
Children's Books
London, Faber and Faber, 1929.
First edition, trade issue. Oblong 8vo. Original pictorial boards and dust-jacket, priced 7s 6d.
A surprisingly hard book to find in first edition, let alone in the original dust-jacket.
A Yarn of the Papuan Gulf
London, Ward & Downey, 1888.
First edition. 8vo. Original pictorial blue cloth.
A very nice first edition of the scarce first book by this well-known author & artist, best remembered for his ghost stories and weird fiction. Nisbet was born in Scotland, but moved to Australia at the age of 15, with many of his works based on or inspired by his travels in that region of the world.