"Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
— P.J. O'Rourke

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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