Strange Tales & Mysteries
The Black House.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1974. [Strange Tale] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[10] 245 [1]. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the purple illustrated dust-jacket, price-clipped and repriced by the publisher twice, latterly to £10.95. Some creasing to rear cover. One heavy bump and tear to inside..... More
Death by Diagnosis [and] Headless Horseman [in] Street & Smith's Mystery Detective. Vol. II, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Very small chip to head of spine. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories..... More
The Rape of Venice.
London: Hutchinson, 1959. [Fiction] FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.446 [2]. Publisher's navy cloth with blocking to spine in gilt and lime green. Endpapers showing a view of Venice in the 18th century. With the dust-jacket designed by Sax priced at 15s. A crisp, clean fine copy..... More
The Sting.
London: HarperCollins, 2019. [Mystery] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (25 x 16cm), pp.[10]; 435; [3]. Publisher's white cloth, purple titles to spine, purple endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Claire Ward, printed price £12.99. All textblock edge tinted pink. Signed by the author in black ink to title page. Minor bump to..... More
The Mousetrap. A Play in Two Acts.
London: Samuel French Limited, [circa 1990]. [Drama] CENTENARY EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[2] 70 [4]. Publisher's yellow paper covers, illustrated to upper, reproducing the original from 1954. With a photogravure plate showing the set. Internally bright and clean. Minor crease to upper. A fine copy. First performed in 1952..... More
The Wrong Corpse [and] Let's Have Some Murder [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. V, No. 2.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1949. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only..... More
Sleep and His Brother.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971. [Mystery fiction] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.190. Publisher's black cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the dust-jacket designed by Colin Andrews, priced at 28s. Textblock top edge tinted blue. Light spotting to textblock edges, wear to edges of dust-jacket, more so to..... More
Hannibal Rising.
London: William Heinemann, 2006. [Psychological thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[8]; 323; [5]. Publisher's black cloth, gilt titles to spine, black endpapers, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Glenn O'Neill, printed price £17.99. A bright, clean copy. Minor bumping to spine, light creasing to dust-jacket upper edge. Fine. From..... More
Everything's Eventual. 14 Dark Tales.
London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2002. [Short stories] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.[16]; 416. Publisher's red cloth, black titles to spine, black endpapers, dust-jacket with printed price £17.99. Toning to textblock, else internally clean. Bumping to upper board corners, minor rolling to spine, light creasing to dust-jacket edges..... More
Traffics And Discoveries.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1904. [Short Stories / Strange Tales] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[2] vi; 393 [23]. Publisher's red cloth with gilt titles to spine, and gilt elephant motif stamped to upper. Top edge gilt. Some toning and spotting to edges and endpapers; internally clean. A little..... More
A L'Hopital Marie Madeleine.
Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 1924. [Surrealist Novella] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Sextodecimo (16 x 12cm), pp.107 [5]. Number 709 of just 750 copies of the first edition. Publisher's plain soft covers with the brown paper wrap-around jacket titled in red and black to spine and front cover. Also with the glassine..... More
An Adventure.
London: Faber and Faber, 1934. [Paranormal Activity] FOURTH EDITION, third impression thus. Octavo (18 x 12cm), pp.118 [2]. With four folding maps at rear. Publisher's light green cloth with gilt titles to spine. Blind ex-libris stamp of Alan H. Hooker to fly-leaf. A touch of light spotting to endpapers, otherwise..... More
The War of the Worlds.
UK; United International Pictures 2005. Movie teaser print /mini poster for the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, starring Tom Cruise and Tim Robbins. Poster is landscape format, with title and globe image, promotional version showing release date july 1 [2005]. Overall dimensions approx. 11 x 16 inches, portrait. Fine condition, archivally..... More
The Female of the Species. Tales of Mystery and Suspense. An Otto Penzler Book.
London: Quercus, 2006. [Short Strange Tales] INSCRIBED FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[10] 275 [3]. INSCRIBED by the author in black ink to title page: 'to Myra and Murray | Joyce Carol Oates'. Publisher's blue cloth with silver titles to spine. With the photographic dust-jacket, priced at £12.99..... More
Feet of Clay.
London: Victor Gollancz, 1996. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp. 288. Publisher's grey cloth lettered on gilt to spine, pictorial dust-jacket illustrated by Josh Kirby and designed by Splash, priced at £15.99 to front flap. A bright and clean copy, some bumping to spine and dust-jacket spine..... More
The Devil is Jones [and] The Startled Face of Death [in] Street & Smith's Detective Monthly. Vol. 1, Issue 11.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., October 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
A Slight Case of Murder [and] Dressed to Kill [in] Detective Tales Magazine. Vol. III, No. 10.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., August 1955. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 1s. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its wonderful..... More
Guardian Angel [and] The Secret People [in] The Fantastic Mysteries.
Kokomo, IN: All-Fiction Field, April 1950. [Fantasy / Science Fiction Magazine] FIRST APPEARANCE. Octavo (24 x 18cm), pp.123 [7]. With occasional engraved illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, priced at 25c. Moderately browned throughout. Heavy chipping to covers, with a large tear to front cover, recently repaired with archival tape. Covers..... More
Weird Tales September 1951
New York, NY: Weird Tales Rockefeller Plaza, Sept. 1951. Quarto. Original pictorial wraps. Trimmed flush with page block. Clean and fresh, spine unchipped, colours bright and crisp. Contains 'Gimlet Eye Gunn' as a representative of the World War II zombie pirate vs. the Japanese genre (a wide field), with an..... More
The Godsend.
London: Souvenir Press, 1976. [Horror] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.208. Publisher's blue cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the illustrated dust-jacket, priced at £3.25. Some light wear to extremities. Near fine. More
Dead Man's Bay.
London: Published for the Crime Club by Collins, 1959. [Mystery Thriller] FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.160. Publisher's red cloth with black titles to spine. With the green and black dust-jacket priced at 10/6. Light offsetting to endpapers and some browning to edges. Jacket toned and chipped to..... More
Mad Morgan's Murder Sanctum [and] Danger! Dead Men! Detour! [in] Detective Story Magazine. Vol. IX, No. 5.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., May 1954. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only more appealing by its..... More
A Tombstone for Taro [and] Terror Holds the Gun [in] Street & Smith's Detective Story Magazine. Vol. VII, No. 3.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., February 1950. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. One faint mark to front cover, and a small chip to head of spine. Almost..... More
Murder's Strip Tease [and] The Wrong People [in] Thrilling Detective Magazine. Vol. VI, No. 12.
London: Atlas Publishing and Distributing Co., Ltd., July 1953. [Crime Fiction] ORIGINAL MAGAZINE. Octavo (25 x 17cm), pp.64. With occasional in-text illustrations. Publisher's colour-illustrated paper covers, stapled twice and priced at 9d. Spotlessly clean, with some very light handling. Almost as-new. This gripping collection of short stories is made only..... More