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MODERN FIRSTS

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The Last Redoubt – An Inspector McLean Novel by George Goodchild

Rich And Cowan 1952 1st edition a vg+ book with no labels or inscriptions a vg (clipped) dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£12.50

NEVIL SHUTE – Beyond the Black Stump

William Heinemann 1956 1st vg++ book in vg unclipped dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

CONGO – Michael Crichton

Allan Lane 1st 1981 near fine book in near fine unclipped dj. When I read this book, it was obvious to me he had a film in mind as he wrote it. I enjoyed the film more than the book. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Patricia Cornwell – From Potters Field

Patricia Cornwell – Portrait of a Killer – Jack the Ripper – Case Closed

Len Deighton – Mamista

Dick Francis – Second Win

All fine first editions with fine unclipped dj in the shop at £2.50

Ed McBain – MISCHIEF – A novel of the 87th Precinct

Hodder & Stoughton 1993 1st edition Fine Book in fine unclipped dj No stamps, labels or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Craig Thomas – PLAYING WITH COBRAS

Harper Collins 1993 1st edition Fine book in fine unclipped dj No stamps, labels or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

BLUE MURDER – Colin Watson

Methuen 1st 1979 fine book in fine unclipped dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£12.50

CUTS – Malcolm Bradbury

Hutchinson 1987 1st near fine book fine unclipped dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Len Deighton’s CONTINENTAL DOSSIER

Michael Joseph 1968 1st in printed boards vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

THE OTTER’S TALE – Gavin Maxwell

Longmans 1962 1st edition t book is fine with no stamps, labels or inscriptions. The dj is clipped a little dusty but still vg at least.

£5.00

MAKING MONEY – Terry Pratchett

Doubleday 2007 1st Fine book in fine unclipped dj No stamps labels or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

LESLIE THOMAS – Dangerous in Love

Methuen 1987 1st fine book in fine dj. No stamps labels or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

IVOR BROWN I Give You My Word and No Idle Words

Both books are vg+ in unclipped vg+ dj. Published by Cape I give You My Word 1st edition 1945 No Idle Words 2nd impression 1949 No stamps labels or inscriptions. Price (two books) includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Peter Fleming – The Sixth Column

Hart-Davis first edition 1951 1st edition in unclipped vg dj book has no stamps or inscriptions and is in fine condition. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£20.00

The Flying Visit by Peter Fleming drawings by David Low

Cape 1940 1st edition. Black cloth no dj. very small neat name on ffep otherwise very bright copy. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£12.50

BILLION DOLLAR BRAIN – Len Deighton

Cape 1966 1st edition no stamps marks or dedications vg+ near fine. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Ring in The New – Phyllis Bentley

Published by Victor Gollancz, 1969. First Edition. 192 pages. Illustrated dustjacket over blue cloth. No stamps or inscription dj not clipped book and jacket near fine. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£12.50

William Boyd – An Ice Cream War

FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[12]; 370; [2]. Publisher’s blue cloth with gilt titles to spine,dust-jacket illustrated by Paul Webb, priced at £7.95. Very good +. Boyd’s second novel, which was nominated for the Booker Prize. As millions are slaughtered on the Western Front, a ridiculous and little-reported campaign is being waged in East Africa – a war they continued after the Armistice because no one told them to stop. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£20.00

Kingsley Amis – The Riverside Villas Murder

Cape 1973 1st edition vg+ book in unclipped vg+dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

Oscar Wilde – The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Published by Arthur L. Humphreys, London, 1912 First edition. 99 pp. Card covers, label, very good. (28911). Preface by Robert Ross. No labels stamps or inscriptions. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£45.00

JAMES BOND – Licence Renewed – John Gardner

Book Club 1st edition vg+ book and dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Room at The Top – John Braine

A book club edition with a great dj by Leslie Ward. Book vg DJ vg+ Posted to UK address

£5.00

Life at the Top – John Braine

1962 E & S first edition dj vg+ but clipped Book vg – slight foxing Posted to UK address

£5.00

The Vodi – John Braine

E & S 1959 1st edition. DJ vg but spine loosing the red ink but unclipped. Book vg but slightly cocked. Posted to UK address

£5.00

Stock I also have the following paperback editions

Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Life at the Top	Penguin	£3.00	vg	1966	2nd
Room at the Top	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1959	1st
The Jelous God	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
The Vodi	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1962	2nd

John Braine paperbacks – Specify title

As per above Posted to UK address

£4.00

Mickey Spillane – The Day of the Guns

Arthur Barker 1965 1st – Fine Book no stamps or inscriptions vg unclipped dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

Anne Rice – Pandora – New Tales of the Vampires

Chatto & Windus 1st 1968 Fine book in Fine dj Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

CHLOE MARR by A. A. Milne

Methuen 1946. dj vg unclipped. Dedication on rear of ffep slight foxing (War Economy paper) but vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

FOX – Naval Fighting in the Time of Sail

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Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Condition	Date	Edition	Number	Price	Cover
Hardy Adam	FOX – Prize Money	NEL	vg+	1974	rep	2	£4.00
Hardy Adam	FOX – Siege	NEL	vg	1974	rep	3	£4.00
Hardy Adam	FOX – Treasure	NEL	vg+	1974	rep	4	£4.00
Hardy Adam	FOX – Powder Monkey	NEL	vg+	1973	1st	5	£4.00
Hardy Adam	FOX – Sea of Gold	Pinnacle	vg	1974	1st	6	£4.00
Hardy Adam	FOX – Court Martial	NEL	vg+	1974	1st	7	£4.00	Phillipps
Hardy Adam	FOX – Battle Smoke	NEL	vg+	1974	1st	8	£4.00	Phillipps
Hardy Adam	FOX – Cut and Thrust	NEL	vg+	1974	1st	9	£4.00	Phillipps
Hardy Adam	FOX – Borders Away	NEL	vg	1975	1st	10	£4.00	Phillipps
Hardy Adam	FOX – Firesgip	NEL	vg+	1975	1st	11	£4.00	Phillipps
Hardy Adam	FOX – Blood Beach	NEL	vg	1975	1st	12	£4.00	Phillipps
Hardy Adam	FOX – Sea Flame	NEL	vg+	1976	1st	13	£4.00
Hardy Adam	FOX – Close Quarters	NEL	vg	1977	1st	14	£4.00

FOX – single book specify which one

All UK apart from #6 which is a US edition Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

ENID BLYTON – Noddy etc.

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The NEW BIG NODDY BOOK by Enid Blyton Pictured by Beek

Sampson Low LONDON undated but I believe 1954 book vg+ apart from biro name in name block dj complete but scruffy Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

The Big Noddy Book by Enid Blyton – Pictured by Beek

Sampson Low London, undated but have seen it advertised as 1959 The book is vg+ apart from biro owners name in panel. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Enid Blyton Benjy and the Others (1955 1st) is the only rare book among this lot, crossed out names on front free endpaper otherwise vg+, printed boards no dj. SOLD

Enid Blyton Noddy and His Car and Noddy Goes to School

Sheila Hodgetts – Toby Twirls No. 2

Kitty Styles & Mary Kendal Lee Nicholas Thomas and Timothy No.5

Enid Byton – The Ship of Adventure

Armada Paperback fine Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Blyton Enid	Fun for the Secret Seven	Knight	£1.00	vg
Blyton Enid	Mischief at St Rollo’s	Armada	£2.50	vg+	1986
Blyton Enid	The Adventurous Four	Armada	£2.50	f	1974
Blyton Enid	The Adventurous Four Again	Armada	£2.50	f	1974
Blyton Enid	The Castle of adventure	Armada	£2.50	vg-	1974
Blyton Enid	The Island of Adventure	Armada	£2.50	vg
Blyton Enid	The Mystery of the Strange Bundle	Bag 32	£2.50
Blyton Enid	The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor	Armada	£1.00	vg-	1978	rep
Blyton Enid	The Ragamuffin Mystery	Armada	£2.50	vg	1974	rep
Blyton Enid	The Rat-a-Tat Mystery	Armada	£2.50	f	1974
Blyton Enid	The Riloby Fair Mystery	Armada	£2.50	f	1974
Blyton Enid	The Rockingdown Mystery	Armada	£2.50	vg	1974	rep
Blyton Enid	The Rockingdown Mystery	Armada	£2.50	vg	1986	rep
Blyton Enid	The Rubadub Mystery	Armada	£2.50	f	1974	rep
Blyton Enid	The Sea of Adventure	Armada	£2.50	vg+	1969	1st
Blyton Enid	The Secret of Moon Castle	Armada	£2.50	vg-	1974	rep
Blyton Enid	The Ship of Adventure	Armada	£2.50	f	1969	1st

If you are interested in any of the above titles and want more information please let me know and I can either answer your questions, send a PayPal invoice or make any other arrangement. Note that the price shown above does not include shipping.

Children’s

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The Bobbsey Twins and the Goldfish Mystery by Laura Lee Hope

World Distributors Manchester 1962 (1st?) Book vg++ no inscriptions or stamps dj clipped but vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

The Bobbsey Twins Camping Out – by Laura Lee Hope

World Distributors Manchester 1963 reprint book vg+ no inscriptions or stamps or stickers dj unclipped vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Mr Why & Mr What and Old Nature Tales

Thomas Nelson and Sons 1950 1st book fine dj vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.00

Fairyland Tales No. 414

7″ X 6″ comic undated would guess 1930’s. 40 pages Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

Fairyland Tales No. 400

7″ X 6″ comic undated would guess 1930’s. 40 pages Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

“B B” – The Forest of Boland Light Railway

Published by Knight in 1969 1st vg+ There is no copy of this edition on ABE there is a second edition for which they are asking £45

£25.00

The Secret of the Lost Tribe – Phyl Wardell

Armada 1964 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£6.50

Thunderbirds – John Theydon

Armada 1966 1st vg- Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£15.00

Thunderbirds Ring of Fire -John Theydon

Armada 1st 1966 vg- Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£6.50

Captain Scarlet and the Silent Saboteur

armada 1967 vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£11.50

Monica Edwards – Punchbowl Midnight

Armada 1963 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£8.00

Malcolm Saville – Two Fair Plaits

Armada 1966 1st vg+

£6.50

Frank Richards – Billy Bunter Sportsman and Billy Bunter and the School Rebellion both Merlin paperbacks £5.00 each.

Mervyn Skipper – The Meeting Pool – Puffin 1st £5.00

The Mad Frontier and Mad’s Don Martin Comes on Strong both published by Signet at £2.50 each. I remember one issue of the magazine gave away a full sheet of “Alfred E Neuman 4 President stamps” at the time that postage (I don’t thing we had classes then) was 4d. I used them on my Christmas cards and the PO delivered them all. Funny that the idea of Alfred E. Neuman for president seems so main stream today.

Thames Williamson (is that really his name?) North After Seals – Puffin 1st £2.50. I am presuming in this book they don’t club the babies to death.

Biggles Air Commodore – Capt. W E Johns Armada 1st £5.00

“Hard Boiled” English Editions and stuff

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NO KICKBACKS FOR KILLERS – A Johnny Dekker Story

Published by Martin & Reid – London 1948 1st 32 pages vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£25.00

My Life with Diana – Paul Renin

Published by BEACON PUBLISHING Co. Leicester undated but about 1949. This copy, though very rare, has the rear cover missing. This is what Beacon says about their copy that they are asking £40.00 for ” Beacon Publishing Co., [ca.1949]. First edition. “Diana Wilton looked extremely attractive that afternoon sitting on the lounge in the smart sitting-room of her Chelsea flat and smiling across at me through the drifting smoke of her cigarette”. According to his publishers, Paul Rénin “knows women better than they know themselves” – suspicious wife, glamorous widow, famous actress, etc. Crown 8vo (19cm). 112pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; some wear to spine; some internal creasing; a reasonable copy of an uncommon title. Exchange stamp of the “Modern Book Stall’s” [sic] of Leicester, Loughborough and Coalville Market, on upper wrapper and final leaf. No copy traced in any major library worldwide.” Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

Elimination Syndicate – J Allan Dunn

An undated “Pemberton” publication somewhere near 1950 I would guess. A vg copy of a rare book. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£42.50

Paul Renin – The Street of Many Shadows

This is an undated Phoenix Press edition. I have been unable to find a copy of this edition on line, unfortunately it only just is a vg- Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£20.00

Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk

“Maria Monk was a Canadian woman whose book Awful Disclosures of Maria Monk, or, The Hidden Secrets of a Nun’s Life in a Convent Exposed claimed to expose systematic sexual abuse of nuns and infanticide of the resulting children by Catholic priests in her convent in Montreal.” I didn’t know where to put this, but as it was published by Pemberton (undated) I have assumed it is not a book about divination. This copy is a bit knocked about but still vg to vg-. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£11.50

Deep South Slave, I Mobster and Nobody knows the dead all SOLD

Darcy Glinto – You took me….keep me…

Only one on offer on ABE for £175 though I have found one elsewhere for only £100. Published in 1950 by Robin Hood Press cover art by Terry. Internally the staples look dark but the paper is free of foxing and discolouring, in fact in much better condition then many much newer publications.

£55.00

The Brute – Paul Renin

This edition was published by R & L Locker in 1946 in Stoke on Trent. Though I can’t find this edition for sale anywhere, a few other titles by this author are on offer. This is clean tight copy This price includes UK Postage.

£27.00

Manhunt Detective Story Monthly November 1953 Vol 1 no. 4

Not in the same league as the rest of these offerings but the cover was worth inclusion and the contributing authors are impressive ; Mickey Spillane (serial), Henry Kane, David Goodis, Patrick Wilmot. Richard Ellington, Richard Deming, Evan Hunter, Robert Turner, Kris Neville and Roy Carroll. I am offering this to any UK location for £7.00

£7.00

A lot of these titles were produced when it was difficult to get American Paperbacks in the UK and saw the opportunity to cash in on the popularity of Hank Janson. You can check out my Hank Janson page.

Passage to Terror by Edward Ronns (Edward S Aarons)

Published by Gaywood Press undated but around 1952 this is a very good plus (near fine) copy. Posted to a UK address for £25

£25.00

Don’t Cry, Beloved – Edward Ronns (Edward S Aarons)

The Gaywood copy illustrated above has been sold, so I am offering this Gold Medal version with scuffed up hair. To a UK address £7.5

£7.50

Too Good for the Poor – Nat Karta

A rare title from a rare author. Published by Muir-Watson about 1952. A book in VG condition Sent to any UK Destination £50

£50.00

So Rich, So dead – Gil Brewer

Another Gaywood title in vg Posted to UK £20

£20.00

Satan is a Woman – Gil Brewer

The Gaywood Press edition of this rare book. The spine has been repaired with magic tape otherwise vg To UK address £50

£50.00

I have many other titles that should be labelled Hard Boiled but I have listed most just as crime, I will rectify that on stock checking (if I ever get round to it)

CHILDREN’S Annuals and such

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IDEAL BOOK FOR BOYS – Dean & Son

Dean & Son LONDON Undated, would appreciate it if anyone can point me to a guide to date these books, I would guess early 50’s The book has no stamps labels or inscriptions vg or a bit better than vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Mickey’s WONDER BOOK by Walt Disney

Collins London 1950 vg Ask for more details if required Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

The Wild West Book Written by Arthur Groom

Birn Bros. London about 1950 illustrated may be by McConnell but not credited a vg+ copy Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

The BRONCO KID’S Wild West Yarns

Purnell amd Son London about 1950 vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

MONSTER BOOK FOR BOYS

Dean & Sons London Undated but around 1950. Very clean and tidy but owners name crossed out on title page Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

The Third Book of BLUE PETER

Very near fine only blemish a small neat name (Daniel) on ffep. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

The Tip Top Book 1952

Published by Amalgamated Press not clipped no inscriptions but free endpapers stained brown otherwise vg copy Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

OUR BOYS TIP TOP

Published by Renwick of Otley LONDON Undated. cover vg book vg crossed out owner’s name in name panel ffep tidily taped in. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

OUR BOYS TIP TOP (Steppingstones cover)

Published by Renwick of Otley LONDON Undated. cover vg book vg crossed out owner’s name in name panel Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

RIDERS OF THE RANGE 1953

Juvenile Productions This would be a fine copy but for the scratch on front boards (see Photo) there are no stamps or inscriptions Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Hopalong Cassidy Stories number 2

Published in England by Purnell vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Robin Hood and his Merry Men

Thames Publishing undated vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Uncle Mac’s Children’s Hour Story Book

Published by Collins in 1952/3 this copy has inscription to rear of ffep otherwise vg. Includes “Summer in the Canadian Arctic by Lieut-Com Peter Scott M.B.E. D.S.C.” vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Eagle Book of Balsa Models By Bill Dean

Published by Hulton Press undated but I think 1954 vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

Black Bob The Dandy Wonder Dog

Undated but I think it is 1953. There is a previous owners name scribbled out on the title page otherwise the book is clean and tidy. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£7.50

Three Little Pigs by Dorothy M Wheeler

Published by Juvenile Productions Ltd LONDON, undated but it was a Christmas present in 1953 vg with printed boards. By post to UK address

£7.50

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

£7.50

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

£7.50

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

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 £3.5

The Outdoor Story Book – Blackie

Undated but inscription for Christmas 1924. Very bright but with very slight dust marks on some pages (easily removed) Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Title page missing in what is otherwise a nice clean book dedication Christmas 1925 in shop for £1.00

Every Girl’s Annual

Price below includes P&P within UK

£7.50

Hard to Find Paperbacks

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Philip Lindsay – ONE DAGGER FOR TWO

Pocket Book 1952 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£15.00

Mittelholzer titles I should have in stock.

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Mittelholzer Edgar	Children of Kaywana	Ace UK	£5.00	vg	1959	1st
Mittelholzer Edgar	Kaywana Blood	Ace UK	£2.50	vg	1960	1st
Mittelholzer Edgar	My Bones and My Flute	Corgi	£2.00	vg	1958	1st
Mittelholzer Edgar	Sylvia	Four Square	£5.00	vg	1964	2nd
Mittelholzer Edgar	The Wounded and the Worried	Pan	£4.00	f		1st

The prices above do not include postage

Whilst cataloguing paperbacks that I have had for years and have only just got round to sorting I check how many are available on line. Now and again I find books, or editions of books, that are hard to come by. Two of the rarer books in my last batch are George H Smith’s The Coming of the Rats and Brighton Belle by Arthur La Bern.

BRIGHTON BELLE by Arthur La Bern

Digit (UK) “The sensational novel of a vicious back street world of pimps prostitutes and racketeers” vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

Adult (not the book to read on a train)

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Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Condition	Date	Edition	Price
Barros Ricardo	Sexual Fantasy	Luxor	vg+	1970	1st	£5.00
Muller and Wurdak	Blackbirds	Tallis	f	1969	Rep	£10.00
Burton Richard (Translator)	The Perfumed Garden	Champion	vg	1963	1st	£5.00
Lefontenay Paul	Slaves to Sin	Luxor	vg+	1967	1st	£10.00
Straparola, Giovanni Francesco	The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola	Luxor	vg	1965	1st	£5.00
Comisso Giovanni	Oriental Love in Action	Luxor	vg	1969	rep	£5.00

Oriental Love in Action by Giovanni Comisso

Luxor 1969 reprint vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola

Luxor 1965 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

Slaves to Sin by Paul Lefontenay

Luxor vg+ 1967 1st Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

The Perfumed Garden Translated by Richard Burton

Champion 1963 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

BLACKBIRDS! Photographed by Kidge Wurdak and Kurt Muller

Tallis 1969 reprint vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

Sexual Fantasy by Ricardo Barros

Luxor 1970 1st vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

Lovers and Libertines by Cliff Howe

Ace (US) 1958 1st vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£8.00

The Sweet Smell of Sex By Richard K Champion

The Sweet Smell of Sex by Richard G Champion

“A Study of an Abnormal Obsession. Published by CANOVA PRESS LONDON 1969 1st edition this is a true fine copy. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£10.00

MALADJUSTED FEMALE by A Joseph Bernstein Ph. D.

K & G Publications Herts. 1967 a vg- copy Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£6.50

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ISAAC ASIMOV Science Fiction Magazine

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Digests

Vol	Number	Title	Year	Month	Contents
2	5	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1978	10	(vg+) Garrett – Peel – Bozarth – Haiderman – Reynolds – Wellan – Duntemann – Lear
2	6	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1978	11	(vg+) Longyear – Roberts – Gardner – Kaderabek – Botd – Asimov – Eisenstine – Ford – Osgood – Wellan – Gaughan – Bever – Lange – Baterman – Williamson – cover Barr
3	7	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1979	07	(vg+) Longyear – Gardner – Ford – Payack – Girard – Ringdalh – Kosiewska -Brierton – Ramirez – Cox – Wu – Cover Kofoed
4	5	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1980	05	(vg+) McEnroe – Gardner – Tall – Roberts – Hand – Farber – Asimov – Andreissen & Poyner – Cover Barr
4	6	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1980	06	(vg+) Searies – Sucharitkul – Gardner – David – Miller – Duntermann – Breen – Strauss – Dykstra – Tritten – Reynolds – Payack – McEnroe – Cover Stine
4	8	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1980	08	(vg+) Van Scyoc – Gardner – Colley – Farber – Barnes – Sucharitkul – Cover Fabian
4	9	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1980	09	(vg+) Haldeman – Gardner – Ford – Webb – Lisa Tuttle – Colly – Jepson – Strauss – Duntemann – Webb – Sucharitkul – Cover Schomburg
4	10	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1980	10	(vg+) Ford – Gardner – Wall – Colley – Murphy – Davidson – Cover Schomburg
4	12	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1980	12	(vg+) Longyear & O’Donnell – Gardner – Haldeman – Pearce – Casper – Jeppson – Wellan – Wolfe – Clayton cover Kofoed
5	11	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1981	10	(vg) Watson – Gardner – Ogden – Sanciers – Ford – Davidson – Gunn – Macinttyre – Webb – Busby – Strauss – Sucharitkul Cover Nobel
6	4	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1982	04	(vg+) Sutcharitkul – Gardner – Malzberg – Aldiss – Macintyre – Ford – Brous – Stevens – Effinger – Cover Lokay
7	1	Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine	1983	01	(vg+) Aldiss – Killus – Wall – Shiner – Sirios – Sheffield – Brunner – cover Caperosa

Isaak ASIMOV Science Fiction Magazine single issue

Please specify year and month – discount given for issues ordered at the same time. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Maps & Gazetteers

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Historical Map of England and Wales

Bartholomew on paper but with only one very small nick (see photo) otherwise near fine. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Bartholomew’s General Map of Scotland

1958 revision on cloth. Tenth Inch to Mile – Political Colouring – Pretty Dam near fine Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Special Map of the Libyan Front (Libya and Egypt

£2.50

Ordnance Survey Ben Nevid & Glen Coe (includes Lorn & Lochaber)

One-Inch Tourist Map – Mounted on Cloth 1959 with minor changes 1961 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

Ordnance Survey Sheet 20 – Hawes

1914 revision of 1904 Map on cloth vg Scale 1 inch to a Mile Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Ordnance Survey Sheet 84 – Bedford

Contoured Road Map of Bedford – Popular Edition Price 2/6 – one inch to one mile. Cloth. vg 1919 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

One-Inch Ordnance Survey Map – 96 – Leeds & Bradford

Paper Published 1961 Fully Revised 1958 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£4.00

One-Inch Ordnance Survey – 102 – Huddersfield

First published 1947 – Paper Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

One-Inch Ordnance Survey 102 Huddersfield

Cloth – Published 1961 – Fully revised 1959 Major Roads revised 1961 – a few pencil marks on map. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

Sheet 22 Reprint of first one-inch OS Map – Doncaster and Wakefield

As it says in title Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Ordnance Survey Sheet 31 – Leeds and Brafdford

Second War Revision 1940 1 inch to one mile on paper. no covers Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

Bartholomews Revised “Half-Inch” Contoured Maps England Sheet 11 NORTH WALES

Mounted on Cloth Revision Date 1935 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

Bartholomews Revised “Half-Inch” Contoured Maps England Sheet 17 VALE OF SEVERN

Mounted on Cloth 1936 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£4.00

Bartholomews Revised “Half-Inch” Contoured Maps England Sheet 36 N.YORKSHIRE COAST

Cloth July 1955 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£4.00

Bacon’s Motoring and Cycling Road Map SCOTLAND

On Cloth – I can’t see a date or scale. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£3.00

“Geographia” Beautiful Britain – CORNWALL

Cloth – 2 1/2 miles to 1 inch I can’t find a date Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me. I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.

£3.00

Johnston’s Readyfold Coloured Touring Map Section 1

Cloth undated South East corner of UK Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

The RAC County Road Map and Gazetteer – Number 27 – Central Scotland

Undated but I think 1930. 104 pages, coloured maps, Gazetteer with many photographs and line drawings plus some fantastic period adverts. Staples starting to rust, middle pages loose. Through the post to any UK address

£4.00

Ordnance Survey 1925 Sheet 13

Contoured Road Map of KIRKBY STEPHEN and APPLEBY – Popular Edition Price 2/6 Scale One Inch to One Mile. Price includes UK Postage

£6.00

2 Motoring and Hiking and 2 Motoring and Touring Maps LL,EE,L,H

Undated but I would guess mid 30’s covering South West and part of Wales. All four including UK Postage £7.50

£7.50

New War Map of the Western Front

Geographers’ Map Co., LTD.

The Only Map Showing the actual fighting are on a very large scale. 3 3/4miles to one inch.

Position of Maginot and Siegfried Lines. Price 6d each.

It seems expensive for WWI but it is undated with no indication that it is a reprint. Marks to the rear cover but the map is complete and clean.

I am not familiar with maps but this seems to hold some interest so I am asking £10.00

War Map

P&P free in UK

£10.00

Bacon’s War Map of Central Europe Showing the Political Frontiers

Undated but obviously 1940’s This is the paper edition Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£2.50

Holbeck & New Wortley – Old Ordnance Survey Map

Yorkshire Sheet 218.05 The Godfrey Edition Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

Bradford (Frizinghall & Heaton) 1906 – Old Ordnance Survey Maps

The Godfrey Edition Yorkshire Sheet 201.15 Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

Bacon’s County Map of Yorkshire

on cloth undated 5 miles to one inch Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

Patricia Cornwell – From Potters Field

Patricia Cornwell – Portrait of a Killer – Jack the Ripper – Case Closed

Len Deighton – Mamista

Dick Francis – Second Win

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