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£150



London, Collins Crime Club, 1960.

First edition. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket.

A nice first edition of this Hercule Poirot title, featuring five cases set in an English country house at Christmas time.

£125



London, Collins Crime Club, 1955.

8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6s.

Attractive jacketed edition of this murder-mystery with supernatural elements.

£295



London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1927.

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

An attractive first edition by this Scottish author, one of his 'lunatic at large' series of books.

£295



London, Eveligh, Nash & Grayson, [1922].

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

The continuing Wodehousian adventures of adventures of Mr. Francis Mandell-Essington, the basis for the 1927 silent film The Lunatic at Large.

Weird & Supernatural

Collins (Wilkie) After Dark

£150



London, Smith, Elder, 1875.

'New Edition'. 8vo. Later half calf.

Wilkie Collins's first collection of six short stories, first published in 1856. The book is a series of tales supposed to be told to poor travelling portrait-painter, William Kerby, who is forced to abandon his profession for six months in order to save his sight.

Victorian Literature

Collins (Wilkie) No Name

£1,200



London, Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1862.

First edition. 3 vols. 8vo. Original blind tooled red cloth, spine lettered & decorated in gilt.

A very good first edition set in the original cloth of this epic tale of disinheritance and illegitimacy, originally serialised in Charles Dickens' magazine All the Year Round.

£95



London, Hodder & Stoughton, [1928].

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

Colver was a prolific author, best remembered today perhaps for her Joan Foster series.

Modern Literature

Conquest (Joan) Veiled Lover

£150



London, Jarrolds, [1938].

First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, later issue ('7th thousand') priced 2/6.

Signed by the author on front free endpaper. Great jacket artwork.

£125



London, Warne, [1931].

First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 6/-.

The Story of Electrical Communications.

£150



London, Collins, 1922.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered and ruled in red.

Uncommon first edition of this pre Inspector French title.

£375


or, Ghosts & Ghost Seers
London, Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, 1863.

'New Edition'. 8vo. Modern green cloth preserving original upper cover and part of original spine.

One of two anthologies of supposedly true ghost stories by Crowe, originally published in 1848 and considered one of the first serious collections of this sort. Rare.

£95



Whistable, Oyster Press, 1994.

First edition. One of 500 numbered copies. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket.

A fine copy of this limited edition autobiographical fantasy by renowned actor Peter Cushing, published shortly before he passed away.

£125


From the outbreak of war with Turkey to the Armistice
London &c., Hodder & Stoughton, 1919.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

An uncommon book in the original jacket.

£125



London, Herbert Jenkins, n.d. [c.1925].

Early printing. 8vo. Original red cloth blocked in black. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.

Great jacket artwork on this early printing of one of six titles Goodchild published under the name 'Alan Dare', originally published in 1924. The title was reissued under Goodchild's name by Newnes in 1934.

£125



London, Hutchinson, [1937].

First edition. 8vo. Contemporary lending-library cloth. Dust-jacket, with price-sticker of 2/- to spine.

"A romantic story of impulsive youth", according to the rather lovely dust-jacket's blurb.

£85



London, John Long, 1938.

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

The author's first novel, a tale of a neglected housewife and her internal struggle with making the right choice when tempted by an affair.

£1,750


Comprising: The IPCRESS File; Horse Under Water [with original crossword slip]; Funeral in Berlin; Billion-Dollar Brain
London, Hodder & Stoughton; Jonathan Cape, 1962-66.

First editions, first impressions. 4 vol. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jackets, all correctly priced.

An unusually good set of the first quartet of Deighton's "Harry Palmer" novels (although the character is never actually named in the books); increasingly difficult to find as a set and in comparable condition, here with the original crossword slip in the second book as called for. The stories' popularity received an additional bolstering from the three film versions made starring Michael Caine, and have enjoyed ongoing success for fans of spy fiction, not least as a counterpoint to Fleming's James Bond novels.

£150



London, Jonathan Cape, 1963.

First edition. 8vo. Original red boards with black 'rubber stamp' to upper cover. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

A very good first edition of the second 'Harry Palmer' spy novel (although the character is never named in the books), that began with The IPCRESS File (1962).

£325



London, Hutchinson, [1934].

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

A shipwreck leads to the formation of a new community. Uncommon in jacket.

£95



London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1930.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth-backed marbled boards. Dust-jacket, priced 8/6.

The first edition of this science fiction author's reflections on the ways in which the world might in fact end.

£150



London, Macmillan, 1977.

First edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced £3.50.

The scarce third Inspector Morse title.

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Dick (Philip K.) Ubik

£675



London, Rapp & Whiting, 1970.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, priced £1.40.

A very good first UK edition of this novel set in a future 1992 where psychics are common and utilised in corporate espionage while intricate technologies allow recently deceased people to be maintained in a lengthy state of hibernation.

£275



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.

£95



London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1934.

First UK edition. Small 4to. Original pictorial boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.

"Story and Illustrations by the staff of the Walt Disney Studios".

£150



London, Newnes, 1936.

First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.

Maritime treasure-hunting thriller for children; listed in Hubin.

£175


comprising: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle; The Adventure of the Speckled Band; The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor; The Adventure of the Copper Beeches
London, George Newnes, 1892.

Together in The Strand Magazine, vol.III January to June. 4to. Bound in contemporary half calf, spine gilt.

Including several of the most famous Sherlock Holmes adventures, in their original first appearance.

£1,350



London, Newnes, 1902.

First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth blocked in elaborate gilt to upper cover and spine, with inset black silhouette of the Hound to upper cover.

Without doubt one of the most thrilling and atmospheric adventures of everybody's favourite consulting detective, a glorious blend of goth pseudo supernatural and definitive Holmesian deductive scene stealing, The Hound of the Baskervilles exists very much in a realm of its own.

The novel, the third of four featuring Holmes, was the first tale to be published after Doyle threw his most notable creation off a waterfall, and its considerable commercial success was really the catalyst for Holmes' triumphal return to life. With more plots than Varney the Vampire (actually five in all, including red herrings...so we're exaggerating, because everyone knows Varney has about 750), it seems very much a harking back to the Victorian style of creeper, very Le Fanu or Wilkie Collins, with its diary entries, and letters, unearthed manuscript and doom laden portents uttered by gloomy locals staring out of windows overlooking marsh land.

£475


An essay toward an autobiography of a race concept
New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1940.

First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $3.00.

An important work, regarded in part as one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology. The title refers to his hope that African Americans were passing out of the darkness of racism into an era of greater equality.

£975


The Negroes in the Making of America
Boston, Mass., The Stratford Co., 1924.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt.

An important work by the American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist Du Bois, highlighting the unique contributions of African-Americans in building the United States.

£750


and other fairy tales from the old French
London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.

First Dulac edition. Deluxe issue, one of 1000 numbered copies signed by the artist. 4to. Original brown morocco gilt.

A handsome copy of the superior issue of Dulac's rendering of these fairy tale classics.

£95



London, Skeffington, n.d..

Early printing, stating '6th Thousand' on jacket spine. 8vo. Original olive cloth. Dust-jacket, with price rather dramatically excised from spine.

An early printing of the US author's first book.

£125



London, Skeffington, n.d..

Early printing, stating '7th Thousand' to title-page. 8vo. Original red boards. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.

Originally published in 1929, sometimes subtitled Or How the Squid Got Besuckered, introduces a villain known as the Crimson Query because he leaves, Zorro-like, a sign of his machinations. In this case, a bright red question mark. All in all, this hard-to-find detective story stands alongside the more horrific novels Eadie is known for.

£75



London, Nicholson & Watson, 1939.

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

Attractive jacket artwork on this uncommon first edition about the divisive effect a legacy gift has on a town.

£575


A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. No.17
Ibadan, Nigeria, For Mbari Club by Longmans of Nigeria, June 1965.

Small folio. Original pictorial wrappers.

An attractive issue of this seminal West African literary journal. Includes 'The Voter' by Chinua Achebe.

"The steady development of Black Orpheus over the last seven years amounts to a remarkable achievement. It has succeeded in breaking the vicious circle that seems to inhibit the development of a proper reading public by its continued existence, by its very availability; more than that, it has also gone on to establish itself as one of the most important formative influences in modern African literature.…It can be said, without much exaggeration, that the founding of Black Orpheus, if it did not directly inspire new writing in English-speaking Africa, at least coincided with the first promptings of a new, modern, literary expression and re-inforced it by keeping before the potential writer the example of the achievements of the French-speaking and Negro American writers." (Abiola Irele, editor, Journal of Modern African Studies). The magazine ceased publication in 1975.

£575


A Journal of African and Afro-American Literature. No.18
Ibadan, Nigeria, For Mbari Club by Longmans of Nigeria, October 1965.

Small folio. Original pictorial wrappers.

An attractive issue of this seminal West African literary journal. Includes an article on 'African Writers of the 18th century'.

"The steady development of Black Orpheus over the last seven years amounts to a remarkable achievement. It has succeeded in breaking the vicious circle that seems to inhibit the development of a proper reading public by its continued existence, by its very availability; more than that, it has also gone on to establish itself as one of the most important formative influences in modern African literature.…It can be said, without much exaggeration, that the founding of Black Orpheus, if it did not directly inspire new writing in English-speaking Africa, at least coincided with the first promptings of a new, modern, literary expression and re-inforced it by keeping before the potential writer the example of the achievements of the French-speaking and Negro American writers." (Abiola Irele, editor, Journal of Modern African Studies). The magazine ceased publication in 1975.

£195



London, Faber & Faber, 1935.

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

22 murder stories that only appeared in periodical form before.