A couple to check if you are looking for the rare short stories by your favourite author and a series I have not come across previously.
Detective Monthly September 1956
Vol II No. 10 (British Edition)
Kenneth Robeson – Three Times a Corpse
Stanley C Vickers – Don Bird
H Wolff Salz – Invitation to Death
John Scott Douglas
Detective Monthly September 1956
In the shop £7.50 by mail in the UK £10
£10.00
Larry Kent (protagonist not the author who is not mentioned) – Homicide Hell £3.00
Larry Kent – Homicide Hell
In shop £2.50
By post (UK) £4.00
£4.00
Manhunt Detective Monthly January 1954 ; Henry Kane, Richard S Prather (Shell Scott Story), Richard Dening, Harold Q Masur, Evan Hunter, Michael Fessier, Charles Beckman Junior, Emmanuel Winters, and Vincent H Gaddis –
Manhunt Detective Story Monthly January 1954 – English Edition
£5.00 in the shop – when I can open again.
£7.50 within the UK using our postal service
£7.50
Suspense Monthly February 1958 ; Hugh B Cave, Agatha Christie, Gerald Kersh, Charles Irving, Octavus Roy Cohen (what a great name), Simenon, Cornell Woolrich, Manning Coles, Ben Ray Redman, Michael Barker, Mignon G Eberhart, Gerald Bell and James Hadley Chase £2.50
1953 Robert Hale reprint ex-library dj vg unclipped book vg-
In shop £2.50, through post to UK £5.00
£5.00
Shock Treatment – James Hadley Chase
1959 Robert Hale 1st edition dj vg unclipped book vg- (foxing on fore edge and on a number of pages)
In shop £2.50 through post (UK) £5.00
£5.00
Stock
Title
Publisher
Price
Condition
Date
An Ear to the Ground
Panther
£2.50
Believed Violent
Panther
£2.50
Come Easy-Go Easey
Panther
£2.50
vg
Goldfish Have no Hiding Place
Corgi
£2.50
Hit and Run
Robert Hale
£2.50
vg
Lady Here’s Your Wreath
Jarrods
£6.00
vg
Lady-Here’s your Wreath
Panther
£2.50
vg-
1961
Lay Her Among the Lilies
Panther
£2.50
vg+
Miss hemingway Waves a Hand
Panther
£4.00
f
My Laugh Comes Last
Corgi
£2.50
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Panther
£2.50
vg
1961
No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Panther
£2.50
vg
Safer Dead
Robert Hale
£10.00
vg
1956
Strictly for Cash
Panther
£5.00
vg+
The Doll’s Bad News
Panther
£2.00
The Doll’s Bad News
Panther
£2.50
The Soft Centre
Corgi
£2.50
The Vulture is a Patient Bird
Panther
£2.50
The wary Transgressor
Panther
£5.00
f
1969
Tiger by the Tail
Panther
£2.50
Trusted Like a Fox
Corgi
£2.50
We’ll Share a Doule Funeral
Corgi
£2.50
What’s Better than Money?
Panther
£2.50
vg
You’ve Got it Coming
Panther
£2.50
I have not found a way to include a PayPal block that allows choice so unfortunately you will have to contact me by phone or e-mail to purchase any of the above, postage and package for a single paperback in UK is £2.00, it obviously gets cheaper (per copy) if you make multiple purchases.
Undated but about 1971, Seventh edition. Approx. 7”X5” 56 pages. The usual local adverts and potted history as well as the guide.
Fine edition £5.00
Mirfield by Isobel Schofield
1998 published by Kirklees Cultural Services. A 30 page booklet 8”X6” a well-illustrated little publication difficult to find nowadays.
Fine £5.00
With Scuffed cover £3.50
Looking Back at Mirfield – Frances Stott
Published by Greenfield House Publications in 2000 you would have thought there would still be a lot of copies about, but not the case. An A4 sized soft cover publication with 70 pages well produced. Extremely well illustrated and well written text.
Looking Back at Mirfield
Published by Greenfield House Publications in 2000 you would have thought there would still be a lot of copies about, but not the case. An A4 sized soft cover publication with 70 pages well produced. Extremely well illustrated and well written text.
Through the post to UK addresses 12.00
£12.00
Fine £20.00
Mirfield Past and Present by Denis Kay & Stuart Metcalfe
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Mirfield Past and Present by Denis Kay & Stuart Metcalfe
Published in 1992 by Mirfield Rotary Club. 8”X8” 48 pages softcover. Illustrations on every page with explanatory text.
Price includes UK P&P
£7.50
A History of Mirfield – By H N Pobjoy
Published by the Ridings Publishing Company in 1969 a 220 page 10”X8” hard back illustrated with line drawings and is indexed. It was seen as the “definitive” history of Mirfield for a long time, though obviously a personal thing I always thought it too “Churchy”. I was more frustrated by the fact that Pobjoy had access to a large amount of interesting material. He does not mention one of my ancestors who was a Mirfield resident who was hung at York for “Clipping and Coining” (a fact I did not mention when I stood for the council in Mirfield).
SOLD
Old Mirfield Days Old Mirfield Ways – FG Pilling
Old Mirfield Days Old Mirfield Ways – FG Pilling
44 page booklet privately published in 1977
For sale in my shop for £5.00 by post in UK £7.50
First thought, walking round Yorkshire, but no this is Yorkshiremen rambling round the world, and under it. On the Gringa, The Aurora Borealis, An attempt on Kamet, a Desert ride in the Sinai, Mere Gill, Fell Beck above Gaping Gill and more. 90 pages, 7 illustrations and two plans, originally sold for two shillings plus 3d postage. Here’s inflation for you, I am asking for £10 plus £2.50 postage (in UK).
This is only a small proportion of Astounding, an even smaller proportion of the Science Fiction Digests I still need to catalogue. I am hoping that search engines can find the contributors I have listed, I also hope I remember where I put them in the shop. The prices listed are shop prices from a while ago and I can’t recall what logic I was using. I think I can send a digest through the post for £4.00, that is purchase price plus p&p for UK sales.
Digests
Year
Month
Price
Contents
1940
01
£1.00
Harl Vincent – Lester del Rey – D L James – EE Smith
1940
08
£0.50
Lester del Rey – A E van Vogt – John Berryman – Philip St John – Clifford D Simak -Harry Walton
1940
10
£1.00
Harry Bates – Theodore Sturgeon – Malcolm Jameson – L Sprague de Camp
1942
05
£1.00
A E van Vogt – Isaac Asimov – Alfred Bester
1942
10
£2.00
Anthony Boucher – Lester del Rey
1943
02
£2.50
Van Vogt – Cartmill – Ross Rocklynne – R M Williams
1943
07
£2.00
Clifford D Simak – A E an Vogt – Marion Henry – P Schyler Miller – Henry Norton – John Pierce
1944
04
£2.50
George O Smith – A E Van Vogt – Lewis Padgett
1944
06
£2.00
George O Smith – Malcolm Jameson – Lester del Rey – Fritz Leiber – Isaac Asimov
1944
08
£2.50
Wesley Long – PS Miller – CD Simak – Fredric Brown – Roby Wentz – CS Geier
1947
04
£2.00
Hal Clement – Philip Latham – Lewis Padgett – A Bertram Chandler – A E van Vogt
1947
08
£2.50
Jack Williamson – Anderson & Waldrop – William Tenn – Pendalton Banks
1947
12
£1.00
A E van Vogt – Chan Davis – Raymond F Jones – William Tenn – H Beam Piper – O W Hopkinson
1948
02
£2.00
Jack Williamson – Poul Anderson – Edward Grendon – Isaac Asimov – Anthony Boucher
1948
04
£1.00
Clifford D Simak – A E van Vogt – Bernard I Kahn – Alfred Coppel – Michael Yamin – Murray Leinster
1948
08
£2.50
UK Ed – G O Smith – Eric Frank Russell – A Bertram Chandler – OW Hopkinson – Jack Vance – Murray Leinster – Will F Jenkins
1949
02
£1.00
George O Smith – Rene Lafayette – Peter Phillips – John B MacDonald – Arthur C Clarke – A Bertram Chandler
1949
09
£2.00
Rene Lafayette – Eric Frank Russell – Christopher Youd – M C Peasee – Theodore Sturgeon – Burt MacFadyen
1949
10
£2.00
A E Van Vogt – Rene Lafayette – Poul Anderson & Gergen – Theodore Sturgeon – H B Fyfe
1950
02
£2.00
Poul Anderson – HB Fyfe – Raymond P Jones – Arthur C Clarke – W MacFalane – Theodore Sturgeon
1950
06
£2.50
L Padgett – JA Winter – Isaac Asimov – Peter Phillips – W Macfarlane – Judith Merril
1950
12
£2.50
Lawrence O’Donnell – Edwin James – Ford McCormack – Eric Frank Russell – Robert A Heinlein
1951
04
£2.00
Fritz Leiber – Wilmar H Shiras – William Morrison – H B Fyfe – J J Coupling
1951
08
£2.00
F L Wallace – Raymond F Jones – Frank Quattrocchi – Murray Leinster – Kris Neville
1951
12
£2.00
Eric Frank Russell – Isaac Asimov – Gordon R Dickson
1952
03
£2.00
H Beam Piper – Frank M Robinson – Alan E Nourse
1952
04
£2.00
Harry Stine – Walter M Miller – JA Meyer
1952
08
£2.00
Cyril Judd – Jack Williamson – Matthew M Cammen – Jack Thomas – Gallun & Bixby
1952
09
£2.00
Walter M Miller – Raymond F Jones – Julian Fane – Cyril Judd
1952
12
£2.00
Jim Brown – Chad Oliver – Michael Shaara – Mark Clifton
1953
02
£2.00
Thomas Wilson – A Betram Chandler – Walter M Miller
1953
03
£2.50
Isaac Asimov – Walter M Miller – M C Pease
1953
04
£2.50
Eric Frank Russell – Isaak Asimov – Gene L Henderson
1953
05
£2.00
Raymond F Jones – Issac Asimov – Robert Donald Locke
1953
06
£2.00
Poul Anderson – E B Cole
1953
09
£2.00
Hal Clement – Dye & Smith – Alan E Nourse – Lester Del Rey
1953
10
£2.00
Robert Moore Williams – Algis Budrys – Irving E Cox – Hal Clement
1953
11
£2.50
Lee Correy – F M Robinson – Philip K Dick – Lee Cahn – Charles E Fritch – Hal Clemant
1953
19
£2.00
Hal Clement – Dye & Smith – Alan E Nourse – Lester Del Rey
1954
02
£2.50
Clifton and Apostolides – Padgett – Burdrys – R F Young – Katherine MacLean
1954
04
£2.50
Tom Goodwin – Issac Asimov – Ralph Williams – James White – Mark Reynolds and Fredric Brown
1954
12
£1.00
Randall Garrett – Robert Abernathy – Winston Marks – Morton Klass – Poul Anderson – Gotthard Gunther
Sampson Low and Marston . Pictorial Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. A fascinating book on railways around the world for the younger reader. A bias towards British railways and probably dating form the 1950s. 8.25″ x 10″ with 156pp on sale in the shop for £2.50
The Railway Album – E S Wolff
A Typical 50’s Christmas present with probably better and more illustrations than expected.
The price below includes UK P&P
£7.00
Travel Ways By Land Sea and Air by G G Jackson and others
Published by Raphael Tuck (probably in the 30’s) illustrated by Bernard Way and T Cuneo, B&W illustrations throughout with a coloured frontispiece.192 pages. This copy has been owned by a very careful child (probably boy) In the shop for £2.50
Travel Ways By Land Sea and Air by G G Jackson
Worth it for the frontispiece alone.
The price below includes UK P&P
£7.50
Fun and Frolic Toy Book – Redcap Series 11 Published Charles H Kelly
28 pages b&w and coloured illustrations. Repairs to spine, book plate 2nd prize won by Winifred Whitaker in 1921 at St Oswolds Sunday School, complete with no marks that I can see. In the shop £2.50.
Fun and Frolic Toy Book
Price below includes p&p in UK
£5.00
Cheeryble Book
Collins’ Clear-type Press, London & Glasgow. Pictorial Boards. Condition: vg. No Jacket. Harry Rountree and Others (illustrator). [122] pages, illustrated. A sound book in worn boards, front cover illustrated with princess in a sedan chair. Colour frontis . One full-page colour plate, tipped in, by “Harry” = Rountree?, ‘Up in a Balloon’ 3 bears in a balloon basket, Many b/w illustrations in text, several probably by Rountree. Most pages are VG except for slightly worn edges, a couple have very slight markings (that do rub out). Undated but owners plate indicate about 1920. In the shop £5.00
Cheeryble Book
Price below includes UK P&P
£8.00
The Outdoor Story Book – Blackie
Undated but inscription for Christmas 1924. Very bright but with very slight dust marks on some pages (easily removed) for sale in the shop for £1.50
The Outdoor Story Book
The Price below includes UK P&P
£6.00
Every Girl’s Annual
Title page missing in what is otherwise a nice clean book dedication Christmas 1925 in shop for £1.00
I have collected books and ephemera of Spen Valley, and Yorkshire for many years. A number of these publications are difficult to find. Some I am more than reluctant to part with so I have decided to compile a reading list and to mention when I have copies for sale.
Heckmondwike Urban District Official Handbook 1967
46 pages of adverts, photographs, history and facts and stuff
£10.00
Heckmondwike Urban District – Official Handbook 1973
42 pages handbook. Adverts, photographs and official information
£10.00
A History of Quakerism in Liversedge and Scholes by David Blamires
Privately published, undated 48 pages with some illustrations.
Price below includes UK Postage. In shop £5.00
£7.00
Heckmondwike in Times Past – Margaret M Wood
Heckmondwike in Times Past – Margaret M Wood. Undated Countryside Publication 48 pages of very interesting but poor quality illustrations. £5.00
The Price below includes UK Postage
£7.00
Images of England SPEN VALLEY compiled by Norman Ellis
First printed in 2001 by Tempus 23cm X 16cm a 128 page soft cover book with two illustrations per page and accompanying text. Obviously as the images of the title are photographs the history it covers are mainly from 20th century. Though it is crammed full of photographs, many of which I have not seen in any other publications, there are copious notes that add much to the illustrations. A well put together addition to any Spen Valley collection.
The Price below includes UK P&P In the shop £10.00
£12.50
THE CLECKHEATON BRANCH – Mirfield – Heckmondwike – Low Moor
Branchlines of the L & Y R No. 4 Author : Dilnot, John Publication Year : 1986 publisher : L&Y Railway Society Binding : paperback 33pp, photographs, drawings, diagrams, map, track plans, tables.
I have one copy for sale for £12.50
A History of Hartshead by Mabel Ferrett
A 16-page booklet undated but well-illustrated with line drawings. A good very brief, but comprehensive local history start. I have a copy available for £2.50
History of the SPEN VALLEY 1780 – 1980 – Douglas Hird
An essential book for any Spen Valley collection. Published in 1985 written by Douglas Hird who spent 25 years as a reporter in the Spen Valley. Up until being nine year old he attended Brighton Street Junior and Infants School, but moved out when his family emigrated (to Dewsbury).
The book is well illustrated and has an index. Overlaps a bit with Peel but brings us well into 20th century. Unlike Thompson, this is a very entertaining read (written by a journalist and not a Librarian, not that I have anything against librarians that is). It does have many interesting facts that you will not find elsewhere. Not as detailed as some of the SV personal memoirs, but in some way more entertaining for that.
It is getting much harder to find. I only have one copy for sale, at £30.00
SPEN VALLEY – Reading list
The SPEN VALLEY a local History by Thomas William Thompson
Published in 1925 it originally appeared in the Heckmondwike Herald in column format, the deal done was to not take payment for in cash, but the type should be used to publish a limited edition in book form. That is why the book has very wide margins. Thompson was the Librarian in Heckmondwike Library I don’t think he had any formal training as an Historian. The book is 355 pages long and usefully has an index but no illustrations. Overfull of lists of men, in some cases with questionable merit as to the reason for inclusion. The book for the most part looks to the History of the Spen Valley through the lens of the History of England with not a great deal of real “local” content, unless you count the lists of men. I must admit I didn’t get off to a good start when he seemed to imply that prior to the Roman Conquest the Valley was inhabited by tribes of Hunter Gatherers, he seems to have missed the Bronze and Iron age altogether. I must excuse a lot of his opinions as writing in the 20’s the “Dark Ages” were still dark. He is very skimpy on two themes that are very much of Spen Valley History, the Luddites and Chartists. Whatever my views, if you are seriously into Local History you need to read this book. If you are building a Spen Valley Book collection you need to own one. I currently have a copy for sale for £45
SPEN VALLEY in old picture postcards by Gillian Cookson
Published by European Library, Netherlands written Gillian Cookson in 1988 this a 8”X6” hard back is much more than it says on the tin. Yes, it is based on 76 postcards, but each is backed up by research from a highly skilled professional historian who adds commentary to each card that is readable informative and interesting.
The Gate Hangs High – Mildred Coldwell
Published in 1987 by Kirklee s Council an account of her growing up in the Spen Valley between the Wars. Well written illustrated by Barbara Ellis.
The Brontes in the Spen Valley – Mabel Ferrett
Originally published as Shirley Country in 1973 revised in 1997 102 pages Illustrated by Stanley Chapman with an index. My irrational antipathy to the cult of the Brontes has prevented me from reading this but having read other works by Mabel I have no doubts about readability.
A Short History of Hartshead Church by Mabel Ferrett 1993
A 16 page booklet with line drawings £2.50
Christ Church Liversedge 1816 – 1966 (£2.50)
Spenborough Official Handbook 1947/48
96 pages, water damage to the bottom of all the pages, does not obscure text or photographs just distracts from the booklet.
Price includes P&P for UK destinations
A Pictorial History of the Huddersfield & District Police Force
A Pictorial History of the Huddersfield & District Police Force – By Steve Holberry
Print City. Soft Cover, 200x210mm. Huddersfield Police Force from the earliest records to the present day. 82pp plus covers. Illustrated in black and white. Very Good.
Price below includes UK P&P
£15.00
Huddersfield Norman Culley, 1939. Blue cloth with printed title to front cover. Not dated, but the drawings are dated 1938 and 1939. With 25 pencil drawings. The collage distorts the illustrations as most are landscape format. A nice tidy copy for £10.00
The Second Book of Huddersfield – A Sketch Book
Huddersfield Norman Culley, 1939. Blue cloth with printed title to front cover. Not dated, but the drawings are dated 1938 and 1939. With 25 pencil drawings. The collage distorts the illustrations as most are landscape format.
Price below includes UK P&P
1937 first edition with unclipped but chipped dustjacket and book with no inscriptions with very slight foxing on ffep vg/vg+
Price below includes UK P&P
