Literature
Saints Alive.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1974. [Crime Fiction] FIRST HARDBACK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.416. Orange cloth hardcovers lettered in gilt to the spine, illustrated dust-jacket. Edges slightly toned/dusty else near fine, in similar price-clipped jacket, with some light rubs/edgewear, one crease to front flap and one small tear..... More
Send for The Saint.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1977. [Crime Fiction] FIRST HARDBACK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Beige cloth hardcover, illustrated dust-jacket priced £3.95. A clean and tidy ex-library copy, with stamp and label to endpapers, declassification notice to title page. Jacket would be fine but for sunned spine..... More
Senor Saint [Señor Saint].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1959. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.189. Publisher's green cloth decorated in gilt to spine, illustrated dust-wrapper priced at 12/6. A lightly used copy with a few rubs to extremities, edges dusty, creased tear to crown, old tape to reverse; remains bright and..... More
Senor Saint.
New York: For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Precedes the British hardcover. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190; [2], blank. Publisher's tan cloth hardback with black titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $2.95. Contents clean, no ink names, light spotting to endpapers, jacket..... More
Thanks to the Saint. A collection of six more Saintly adventures.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's dark red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 12/6. Contents clean, edges dusty/spotted, jacket rather bright and fresh. An attractive copy. Short story collection, including 'The Bunco Artists'..... More
Thanks to the Saint. A collection of six more Saintly adventures.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1958. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.190 [2]. Publisher's dark red cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket priced at 12/6. Only slightly dusty and handled. Generally a clean, near fine copy. Short story collection, including 'The Bunco Artists' and..... More
Trust The Saint.
New York: For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1962. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Precedes the British hardcover. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.180. Publisher's blue cloth hardcovers with black titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $3.50. Contents clean, no inscriptions, crisp jacket with one closed tear. Near fine..... More
Vendetta for the Saint. The new full length Saint novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1965. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine, 'saint' motifs blocked in gilt, typographic dust-jacket priced at 15s. Rear flap mentions 'a very successful [TV] series starring Roger Moore'. Contents clean, no inscriptions, jacket slightly..... More
Vendetta for the Saint. The new full length Saint novel.
New York: For The Crime Club by Doubleday & Co., 1964. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION, with Doubleday slip loosely inserted (likely an advance copy). Precedes the British hardcover. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.208; [4], blank. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine, pictorial dust-jacket priced at $3.95. The rear..... More
Vendetta for the Saint. The new full length Saint novel.
London: Hodder and Stoughton Ltd., 1965. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over publisher's cloth sides with 'The Saint' stick man motif blocked in gilt, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine preserved at rear. Clean..... More
Le Saint Detective Magazine [The Saint Magazine], No.109 Mars 1964.
Paris: Imp. Commerciale d'Yvetot, 1964. [Literary journal] FRENCH LANGUAGE EDITION. (18 x 13cm), pp.128. Digest magazine format in illustrated covers. Includes a short story by Leslie Charteris 'De l'utilite d'un Monster', plus contributions from Robert Andrea, Pierre Boileau, Jacqueline Barde and Francis Diderot. A clean, fine copy, with colour-printed flyer..... More
The Guilty are Afraid.
London: Robert Hale, [no date] Circa 1956. [Modern Literature] THRILLER BOOK CLUB EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.255; [1]. Publisher's cream cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust-jacket with printed price of 10s. 6d. to front flap. Bumping to edges, rolling to spine, tearing and chipping to edges of..... More
On the Black Hill.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1982. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.249; [5], blank. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-wrapper designed by Mon Mohan. A lovely fine copy. On The Black Hill, the author's first novel, was awarded the 1982 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, founded..... More
The Viceroy of Ouidah.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1980. [Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[4]; 155; [1]. Publisher's brown cloth, gilt titles to spine, map endpapers, photographic dust-jacket clipped and repriced with a sticker at £6.95 by the publisher. A clean, fine copy. More
The German Conquest of England in 1875, and Battle of Dorking; Or, Reminiscences of a Volunteer.
Philadelphia: Porter and Coates. n.d. c.1871. US Edition. Octavo, pp. 62, 2 of adverts. Green cloth covers with decorative gilt titles to front, brown endpapers. Neat ownership inscription to the the recto of the frontispiece page. Front hinge has split the paper along the bottom half, rear hinge just starting..... More
The Incredulity of Father Brown.
London: Cassell and Company, 1926. [Detective Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.[viii]; 295. Red trimmed black cloth, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Some spotting /dustiness to edges, no inscriptions, elegant bookplate to pastedown, jacket chipped at crown, spine sunned, vertical fold to same. Shows well. The..... More
The Innocence of Father Brown.
London: Cassell and Company, 1911. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[8] 336. Publisher's red cloth, with gilt titles to spine and upper cover. Contents clean, discreet bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, hand-coloured and illuminated bookplate of renowned bibliophile Stanley Crowe, gift inscription to reverse side of frontispiece..... More
Dance Without Music.
London: Collins, 1947. [Crime fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. Owner name to pastedown, some wear/loss to crown, jacket with some chips and tears. A very good, used copy. A gritty detective novel featuring Cheyney's private..... More
Dark Hero.
London: Collins, 1946. [Suspense] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. Neat ownership. Very good in like wrapper, sunned to the spine panel. Wartime intrigue about a former Chicago gunman who finds himself in Nazi-occupied Norway... More
One of Those Things.
London: Collins, 1949. [Mystery] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. A very clean copy of the book in a slightly torn wrapper, with one chip to crown. Near fine. Typical Cheyney suspense novel, introducing Private Eye..... More
Sinister Errand.
London: Collins, 1945. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. A very clean copy of the book in a slightly edge-worn wrapper. Near fine. A fast-paced suspense novel. More
Try Anything Twice.
London: Collins, 1948. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.192. Publisher's pale yellow cloth blocked in green, striking illustrated dust-jacket priced at 8/6. A very clean copy of the book in a slightly edge-worn wrapper with a neat closed tear at the foot of the spine. Near fine. A...... More
The Long Year.
London: Jarrolds Publishers, no date [1950]. [American Literature] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.288. Publisher's blue cloth with black titles to spine. With the green dust-jacket, priced at 10/6. A large clumsy blue ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise an exceptionally clean, bright copy, with just a little wear..... More
61 Hours. A Reacher Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop, by arrangement with Delacorte Press, 2018. [Thriller] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[2] xiv; 383 [3]. Number 8 of just 100 copies thus, SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's green quarter cloth, with gilt titles to spine..... More