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Boodle.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1936. [Short Stories] EX LIBRIS CLEMENT ATTLEE, third printing. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.312. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine and blind decoration to upper. Top edge orange; red endpapers. A new bookplate detailing provenance to front pastedown. Toned to edges. Spine heavily rubbed..... More
The Brighter Buccaneer. More "Saint" Stories.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1933. [Short Crime Stories] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.317 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to the fly-leaf: 'For Douglas | on the return | of the prodigal. | Ever | Leslie Charteris. | London 11.8.33.' Publisher's light blue cloth with..... More
Count On The Saint; 'The Unsaintly Santa'.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1980. [Crime caper] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.175; [1], advert. Publisher's burgundy cloth in original dust-wrapper designed by Melvyn Gill. Some bumping, jacket nicked at spine, some edgewear, not faded. A very good copy. Short episodes with the gentleman adventurer. Includes the seasonal mystery..... More
The Saint Goes West. Some Further Exploits of Simon Templar.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.222; [1], advert. Publisher's pale blue cloth in original dust-wrapper priced at 8/6. Covers mottled as usual, jacket with a few chips and tears. traces of an old inscription to flyleaf. Very good. Three Saintly US adventures in Arizona, Palm Springs and..... More
The Saint Goes West. Some Further Exploits of Simon Templar.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1942. [Modern fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.222; [1], advert. Publisher's pale blue cloth in original dust-wrapper priced at 8/6. Covers lightly mottled, jacket lightly worn, chipped to base of spine, with some rubbing, marks, and nicks. Good. Three Saintly American adventures in Arizona..... More
The Saint In the Sun.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1964. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.256. Publisher's blue cloth, titled in gilt, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Studio Stead (Leslie Stead), priced at 15s. Very good indeed, in a lightly used jacket. Seven short adventures for the globe-trotting Simon Templar, set in exotic..... More
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Senor Saint [Señor Saint].
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1959. [Crime Fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp189. Publisher's cloth in dustwrapper. Very light handling and dustiness; a clean, near fine copy. Most attractive. Short episodes with the gentleman adventurer, including 'The Pearls of Peace' and 'The Revolution Racket'. Simon Templar takes a Latin-American holiday and runs..... More
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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
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