London: Collins, 1952. [Pirate adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.189; [1], advertisement; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth, illustrated endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Vasco Lazzlo. Discreet ink name to reverse side of flyleaf, jacket with a few chips and tears, sunned to spine, price-clipped; very good. A.... More

London: Collins, 1950. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.255. Publisher's pink cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. Edges of text block a toned, neat ownership to flyleaf, jacket with a few chips and tears, sunned to extremities (and cloth beneath). Very good. An adventure novel unravelling beneath the blazing summit of Vesuvius in full eruption. More

London: Collins, 1961. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.318; [2], blank. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt, in pictorial dust-jacket designed by Michael Harvey priced at 16s., illustrated map endpapers. Very good in a slightly chipped and torn jacket. Shows well. A naval thriller set in the Western Isles. More

London: Collins, 1952. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.284; [4], advertisements. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Kenneth Farnhill priced at 10/6. Gilt tarnished else near fine, in similar jacket with some toning to the back strip. Very good. More

London: Collins, 1946. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.156. Publisher's burgundy cloth in pictorial dust-jacket priced at 7/6. Discreet owner name beneath flap, wrapper chipped to spine tips, small triangular loss to rear panel (not affecting text). A very good copy indeed. Post-war naval adventure from a master of suspense. More

London: Collins, 1960. Desert adventure set in the Persian Gulf. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.320. Publisher's black cloth in pictorial dust-jacket. No inscriptions or price-clipping. Edge of text block a little toned, jacket is fresh. A lovely near fine copy. More

London: Collins, 1947. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth with silver titles blocked to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Leslie Stead priced at 7/6. Cloth lightly sunned along bottom edge, jacket clean and bright with a couple of ships to crown; near fine... More

London: Collins, 1948. [Adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.256; [4], advertisements. Publisher's burgundy cloth lettered in silver to spine, pictorial dust-jacket. Discreet book shop stamp to foot of flyleaf, jacket with a sizeable chip to head and tail of spine, price-clipped; remains bright and presentable. A sailor... More

London: Collins, 1956. [Naval thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.156. Publisher's green cloth in pictorial jacket. Price clipped, else a lovely fine copy. The 'Mary Deare' was a 6000-ton freighter and apparently abandoned 'ghost-ship', which emerged one night from severe Biscay gales into the English Channel, and into... More

London: Collins, 1967. [Yachting travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.288. Twelve double-sided photographic plates showing both colour and black and white images, and occasional in-text diagrams and maps. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine, dust-jacket illustrated by Frank Francis with printed price of 36s. net. Cloth... More

London: Collins, 1980. [Ocean-going adventure novel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.320; [2], blank. With two maps before the text. Publisher's grey cloth with gilt titles to spine, orange and brown dust jacket. Top edge a little dusty else near fine in similar, lightly used and unfaded wrapper. The... More

London: Collins, 1949. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.255; [1], blank. Publisher's burgundy cloth with gilt titles blocked to spine, pictorial dust-wrapper. Gilt tarnished. Very good in a like, price-clipped jacket. A murder-mystery based in the Antarctic, adapted for the big screen in 1954 as 'Hello Below Zero'... More