London, Robert Hale, 1983.

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

A fine copy of this later work by the novelist and screenwriter T.E.B. Clarke (1907-89), one of the few Brits to win Best Original Screenplay Oscar, for his script for The Lavender Hill Mob.

London, Gollancz, 1940.

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

The first edition of the fifth novel to feature John Appleby, a young Detective Inspector in the Metropolitan Police, straddling detective and spy fiction admirably.

London, Hurst & Blackett, [1949].

First UK edition. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

A great first UK edition of this biblio yarn inspired by the notorious literary forger Thomas J. Wise, by a prolific US author.

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1932. 

London, Heinemann, 1896.

First UK edition, first impression, issue with rear advertisement for The Time Machine on terminal leaf preceding publisher's list, beginning with The Nigger of the "Narcissus" and ends with Chun-ti-Kung by Claude Rees. 8vo. Original pictorial cloth, with publisher's monogram in black to lower board.

A very good first UK edition of Wells' "weird science" classic, contemplating the blurred lines between man and beast, civilisation and savagery...

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'.

A Police Diversion
London, Collins Crime Club, 1950.

First edition. 8vo. Original dark orange cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 8s6d.

A good example of this incredibly versatile writer's detective fiction, featuring his series character Chief Detective Inspector McKay.

A story of love in the desert
London, Eveleigh Nash & Grayson, 1922.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue. Dust-jacket, priced 2/6.

A very good first edition of this Egyptian tale by travel writer Douglas Sladen.

London, Michael Joseph, 1938.

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

Psychological novel transferred to the big screen in 1947, starring Robert Taylor.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1959.

First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 12s.6d.

A couple discover that their child-sitter served a prison sentence for child murder, something they cannot square with the individual in question, sparking their own investigation and the unravelling of some strange secrets.

London, The Literary Press, n.d..

First edition thus. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket.

What was the secret of Chesterton Square?

London, Michael Joseph, 1959.

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in white. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 13s6d.

Conventional science fiction from the pen of Wyndham, comprising four chapters - a fifth chapter was added to subsequent editions.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1931.

First edition, stamped 'Publisher's file copy' on prelim. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 7/6.

An attractive mid-period mystery novel by the author and journalist Valentine Williams, creator of 'Clubfoot'. Distinctly uncommon in the original dust-jacket. Murder and royal intrigue.

A cycle of the Southern Hills
London, Methuen, 1930.

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

The first UK edition of an important work on the Appalachians, a series of dialect sketches focusing on a single Southern community that was praised for its realism. The author, who co-created the 1920s little magazine The Modern Review, died in a car accident in 1931, after attending a 'bootlegger' near Cherokee. Scarce especially in a jacket.

London, Harrap, 1929.

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

The first crime fiction work by this prolific author, published as part of Harrap's 'Sealed Mysteries' series. Each member of a small party at a cabaret on the night a murder is committed is suspected and then eliminated through evidence.

London, Collins Crime Club, n.d..

Collins 2/- issue. 12mo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket.

A neat early edition of this Agatha Christie classic.

London, Hodder & Soughton, 1935.

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

A macabre flautist graces the jacket of this uncommon Horler title.

First edition.
London. Grant Richards, 1923
A lost race novel in which a lost heiress takes over an African tribe. Very scarce in wrapper.

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1932.

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

"...the case of a country clergyman who happens to be a homicidal maniac..." (jacket blurb). The first crime thriller by Vulliamy, writing as Anthony Rolls.

London, John Long, 1939.

First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, with publisher's price sticker 7/6.

Extremely uncommon Hubin-listed title, in excellent dust-jacket. Seemingly the only criminous novel by the author.

New York, Harrison Smith & Robert Haas, 1935.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.

Aeronautical crime-thriller featuring King's series character Michael Lord, investigating murder aboard a transcontinental flight. An intricate plot combined with "locked room" element, the mystery was praised by The New York Times as "a very thrilling story." Very much in the S.S. Dine vein, and one of only seven genre titles recorded by this author.

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1938.

First edition. 8vo. Original orange cloth, lettered in black. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6.

Excellent atmospheric jacket artwork and a scarce dust-jacket. A tale of blackmail & murder, from the grandfather of Fay Weldon.

A Traveller's Tale
London, Collins, 1927.

First edition. 8vo. Original brown buckram. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.

A "little odyssey" by one of Ireland's most popular authors.

London, Collins, 1923.

First edition. 8vo. Original dark blue cloth blocked in orange. Dust-jacket, priced 3/6 (later issue).

The first edition of the author's first novel, in an early issue jacket (1930s), introducing Superintendent Henry Wilson. Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone.

London, Stanley Paul, 1953.

First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped with price sticker of 6/-.

An uncommon first edition thriller by an enigmatic author.

London, Gollancz, 1944.

First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6 and with 'The Fanfare Press, London' printed to bottom edge of lower panel.

The first edition of the debut of the pseudonymous Crispin (in reality, composer Bruce Montgomery), whom the New York Times once called the heir to John Dickson Carr. Gervase Fen's first outing.

London, Hutchinson, 1941.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 9/6.

The second of three novels by Wheatley featuring Julian Day.

A Modern Allegory
London, A.B. Campbell, 1939.

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

'Every Irishman, whatever his political opinions, will enjoy the unique solution of the age-old Irish Problem which provides a gentle satire on present-day world conditions.' (jacket blurb).

New York, G. Howard Watt, 1929.

First US edition, first printing. 8vo. Original grey cloth lettered in black. Dust-jacket, correctly priced $2.00.

A rare edition of this classic of ghoulish horror, especially in the correct first issue dust-jacket with correct number of reviews and price.

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1939.

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

Interesting, and uncommon example of alt-history fiction relating to Hitler and WW2, but in this case actually written and published coeval to the time of the events. Rare in jacket.

London, Hutchinson, [1925].

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

Seemingly a bizarrely scarce edition of this crime fiction title, with the BL and WorldCat only recording the Tauchnitz edition. It first appeared in serial form in Hutchinson's Magazine, 1924.

London, Cassel and Company Ltd, 1929.

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

An attractive first edition of this compilation of Chesterton's famous Father Brown stories.

London, Longmans, 1957.

First edition. 8vo. Original green boards. Dust-jacket, price sticker of 15/- to inside flap.

A very good first edition of this uncommon cookery book, "not merely a collection of recipes, but a compendium of useful information on every aspect of cookery. No Nigerian home should be without it." (jacket). The pink here is fresh and bright in the main.

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1938.

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

A hard book to find in the jacket, written by purportedly by the man who inspired the character 'Bulldog Drummond'.

First edition thus.
London. Reader's Library, [1934 according to COPAC but could be earlier]
Death by poisoning in a locked bedroom at Staups, an isolated manor house on the Yorkshire Moors. Weird elements, a supposedly cursed jewel and sacrificial knives looted from the temple of Aztec descendants living in Central America, Author’s first crime novel, published in the UK by Bles in 1927.

London, Hutchinson, 1974.

First edition, second impression. 8vo. Original blue boards. Dust-jacket, price-clipped, with publisher's promotional bellyband.

The second printing of the joint Booker Prize Winner (with The Conservationist, by Nadine Gordimer) in 1974.

...Rambles in a rural, old-fashioned country, with chat about its history and romance. Illustrated by photographs
London, Foulsham, 1933.

New Edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket.

Originally published in 1916, and followed by several other titles in a similar vein by this author, this "New Edition" is newly illustrated and delightfully dust-jacketed. A cycle trip around Lancashire.

Its Wild Tribes, Big-Game and Bird-Life
London & Edinburgh, Gurney & Jackson, 1921.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth lettered and stamped in gilt.

Chapman narrates his expedition from Khartoum to Uganda via the White Nile, detailing hunts from gazelle in Sudan to elephant near the Zeraf River. His adventures also include encounters with buffalo, hippo, and rhino near the Blue and Dinder Rivers.

A Cracksman Novel
London, John Lane The Bodley Head, 1938.

First edition. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 3s 6d.

Russian aristocrat exile turns to crime in America, and elsewhere.

London, Burns Oates & Washbourne Ltd, 1928.

Early jacketed edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket.

A rare jacketed issue of this important work by Father Benson, lauded in his own day as one of the leading figures in English literature, having written the notable novel Lord of the World (1907). This collection of supernatural horror stories, originally published in various periodicals and later collected in book form, examines "that horrible sense of silence round about us, in which dreadful forces are alert and watching us."

New York, Farrar & Rinehart, 1940.

First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, price-clipped.

An excellent first edition of this the second work by Daly, an often under-appreciated author these days; her serial character Henry Gamadge is a bibliophile and expert on rare books & manuscripts, no less!

London, Collins Crime Club, 1942.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original red cloth. Dust-jacket, neatly price-clipped.

A compelling murder mystery set amongst the old sugar plantations of Louisiana. Uncommon.

London, Clarion Press, 1940.2 vol. (all published). Mixed edition. Small 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers.An important, oft-referenced book on all things relating to the Seychelles, the first volume dedicated to the history of the archipelago, and the second focussing on other elements including geology, botany, zoology, agriculture and economy. A third volume was planned, relating to the British Occupation, but it was never published. Rare.

London, Hutchinson, [1932].

First edition. 8vo. 40pp. publisher's catalogue at end dated Autumn 1932. Original claret cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, correctly priced at 7/6.

The danger of a demoniacally loving woman, as suggested by the somewhat startling jacket artwork.

First edition.
London, Herbert Jenkins, 1935.

Featuring serial character Gilbert Larose The Poisoned Goblet tells of the efforts by a gang to kidnap the child of Lady Ardane.Fabulous dustwrapper art. A desirable title.

related by Christopher Jervis, M.D.
London, Chatto & Windus, 1916.

First edition, reissue with tipped-in title 1916. 8vo. Original first edition cloth.

A nice first edition of a Haycraft-Queen cornerstone, relating stories of medical detection. The book uses the first editions sheets and binding, but has an updated title-page.

London, Ward, Lock & Co., 1943.

First UK edition. 8vo. Original pale blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 5/-.

A very good first UK edition of this non-series title by the often under-appreciated Harry Stephen Keeler, deviser of the "webwork" plot concept.

London, Herbert Jenkins, 1939.

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

Attractive jacket artwork by a prolific jacket artist of the period, Eugene Hastain. A tale of a proposal of marriage as a business deal, that leads to jealousy and hate...

The experiences of a naturalist with the "St. George" Expedition
London, Hutchinson, [1926].

First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket, priced 18/-.

A picturesque account of of travel on the yacht "St. George" among some of the little-known islands of the South Seas, from Easter Island to Rapa and the Marquesas.

London, Sampson Low, Marston, [1937].

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

The only work of sci-fi from an author normally associated with more sedentary works on transport; this Lost Race tale set in the Yukon Territory, 'within a caldera heated by volcanic action, a technologically advanced but priest-ridden civilization of "white Indians", originally from ancient Egypt, uses its helicopter-like airships and strange Weapons to attempt to protect its gold from the outer world.' (The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction).

London, Dent, 1914.

First edition. 8vo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. Dust-jacket.

A very good first edition, in the scarce dust-jacket, by Canadian author Sullivan - not extraterrestrial 'alien' in this case.

London, Ward, Lock, 1940.

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

One of the last books by a prolific author who had enjoyed literary success since 1900, as well as some controversy for her 1916 Sci-Fi book, The Last Weapon, A Vision, the anti-sentiment contained within resulting in the book being banned. Wilson was a founding member of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

London, Macdonald, [1943].

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

A light-hearted book. If you not like mean people, you will not be discouraged by the fate which overtakes the characters... (jacket blurb)

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.

London, Longmans, Green and Co., 1932.

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

A scarce detective fiction title, one of only three titles by this author recorded in Hubin.

London, Cassell, 1949.

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

Attractive first UK edition of this Perry Mason title.

London, Heinemann, 1927.

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

A collection of short stories by the Pulitzer Prize winning author Edna Ferber, famously author of So Big, Show Boat and Giant. The jacket with its 'vignette' illustrations is definitely uncommon, and in our opinion more attractive than the first US equivalent.

London, Geoffrey Bles, 1935.Popular edition first reprint. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 4/6 (second issue?).An uncommon early issue of this rare Rhodes title, originally published in 1928, the jacket featuring the original classic artwork by well-known artist Abbey; one of this prolific author's earliest books, set against a yachting culture backdrop.

London, C.Arthur Pearson, 1916.

First abridged edition. Small 8vo. Original dark grey cloth blocked in black.

An attractive abridgment of the weird & supernatural tales of psychic detective Flaxman Low, written by mother & son team 'E. & H. Heron'. The stories first appeared in Pearson's Magazine (1899). Hesketh was a prolific turn-of-the-century author, creator of then then very popular sadistic bandit character Don Q., as noted by Bleiler now "deservedly forgotten".

New York, Wilfred Funk, 1940.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced $2.00.

The last of seven crime thrillers by psychologist C. Daly King; this time the protagonist Walter Lord is all at sea, in several senses, as he tries to resolve a double murder, kidnap and matters of the heart simultaneously, bewildering even his stalwart companion Dr L. Rees Pons.

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1983.

First edition. 8vo. Original green cloth. Dust-jacket, priced £7.95.

The famous ghost story that inspired film, television, stage and audio adaptations. Scary stuff.

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.

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.

London, Quality Press, 1946.

First edition. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, correctly priced 10/6.

An eye-catching first edition recounting the adventures of a ghost hunter. Scarce.