The only Not in Heckmonwike Heckmondwike second hand book shop
Author: notinheckmondwikebookshop
I would have liked to put "The greatest swordsman throughout the known world" but eclectic book dealer and motorcyclist and ex politico would be slightly more accurate. (the pic is not up to date by the way)
Scion 1950 1st vg-
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£9.50
The British Science Fiction Magazine Vol 1 #8 Edited by Virgo Statten
Dragon Publications undated vg
Contents
T Brissenden – George Holt – Ward Ross – Leslie Davies – Vargo Statten – Jonathan Burke
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£11.50
Vargo Statten British Science Fiction Magazine No. 5 1954
Vargo Statten British Science Fiction Magazine No. 5 1954
Contributions from – Chesman Scott – E C Tubb – Inquisitor – Vargo Statten – J S Hansby – VG-
Through the post to a UK address. £10
£11.50
Vargo Statten is only one of the pseudonyms of John Russell Fearn along with Thornton Ayre, Polton Cross, Geoffrey Armstrong, John Cotton, Dennis Clive, Ephriam Winiki, Astron Del Martia and others.
The PETRIFIED PLANET by Virgo Statten
Scion 1951 1st vg
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£11.50
About 30 years ago I visited Phil Harbottle who owned the copyright for JRF, he had acquired the original artwork of the Vargo Statten paperback covers and for the ones missing had commissioned new artwork from the original artists. To see a room with the walls covered with the full size originals was more than impressive.
INNER COSMOS by Vargo Statten
Scion 1952 1st vg
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£10.50
The NEW SATELLITE by Virgo Statten
Scion 1951 1st vg
£10.50
PIONEER 1990 by Virgo Statten
Scion 1953 1st vg
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£10.50
DECREATION by Virgo Statten
Scion 1952 1st g+
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Signet 794 1950 1st vg-
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£6.00
Trouble in July by Erskine Caldwell – Signet
Signet 567 1949 21st vg+
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£6.50
Trouble in July by Erskine Caldwell – Signet
Signet S 1608 1958 36th vg
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£6.00
DRINKERS OF DARKNESS – Gerald Hanley – Pyramid
Pyramid 1956 1st vg
“Desire and decadence in the seething tropics”
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£8.50
Kingsblood Royal by Sinclair Lewis
Bantam 1949 3rd vg+
“While some white critics found the novel contrived, Ebony, a prominent African-American magazine, ranked it as the most important novel of the year. “The white establishment tended to view the novel as wildly implausible. Black people viewed it as profoundly perceptive.”
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£6.00
Clara – Lonnie Coleman
Bantam 1953 1st vg
The moving, dramatic story of two women—one Negro, the other White—in a small Alabama town and how they influenced each other’s lives for better or worse.
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£11.00
Reprisal by Arthur Gordon
Corgi 1953 vg+ “A savage Novel of Hatred and Revenge”
Violence is never a simple matter. Whether it is ever justified is a more thorny question still…
In this case, the three men had murdered his wife.
There was no doubt in Nathan’s mind that they had been members of the mob that dragged the four victims out of the car on that lonely road just outside of town. And there was no hope that Southern justice would ever exact any penalty for the crime. So Nathan packed a suitcase, loaded his Army pistol, and went back to Hainesville.
It seemed as simple as that. But this quest for vengeance spread in a complex pattern that enveloped many lives – and blasted the artificial calm of a guilty town.
Arthur Gordon’s vivid and angry novel probes deep beneath the surface of this taut situation to examine its impact on a deftly portrayed variety of characters. REPRISAL moves with the swift pace and sharp suspense of an early Hitchcock movie thriller, yet its main achievement is the portrayal of the inhabitants of Hainesville, men and women far more real and complicated than the thin stereotypes who people most novels that deal with racial barriers.
There is Melady, the little writer from a magazine up North, who tried so hard not to become personally involved in his assignment – and failed; Yancey Brown, the proud, dignified undertaker who was the town’s Negro leader; Unity, a minister’s daughter filled with reforming zeal; and Shep whom she loved, hard and self-willed and immovable. There is Hester, with a scarred face and a secret shame; and Bubber Aycock, whose private lusts had provoked the lynching. Threading together through all their lives is Nathan, frightened but determined, moving through the night on his desperate mission. When a social abscess bursts in terror and violence, and its effect is recounted by a brilliant story-teller, the result must be a novel not to be missed. REPRISAL is just such a book.
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£12.50
THE DISTRICT OFFICER – Michael Kittermaster
Digit UK R389 Undated probably first vg+
“Illicit Love and Racial Hatred in the Depth of Africa
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£7.50
TRESPASS – Eugene Brown
Pocket Book 1953 1st vg+
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£6.50
The Colour of Rape – John L Hensley
Ace 1960 1st edition vg+
“1. The Arrest of a coloured man who is convicted by public opinion before his trial.”
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£12.50
The Crime of Ruby McCollum by William Bradford Huie
A Grey Arrow paperback published in 1959 (1st edition) I have not read the book so I don’t know how sympathetic to the subject the book is. I have to admit to knowing nothing of this case that is so topical now as the right in the USA are reintroducing Jim Crow laws.
This is a near fine edition of a rare book.
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£26.50
The Crime of Ruby McCollum by William Bradford Huie
Ruby McCollum, born Ruby Jackson (August 31, 1909 – May 23, 1992), was a wealthy married African-American woman in Live Oak, Florida, who is known for being arrested and convicted in 1952 for killing Dr. C. Leroy Adams, a prominent white doctor and state senator–elect. The judge restricted her testimony, but she did testify as to their sexual relationship and his paternity of her child. The judge prohibited her from recounting her allegations that Adams had repeatedly raped her, and forced her to bear his children. She was sentenced to death for his murder by an all-white jury. The sensational case was covered widely in the United States press (including press report written by Zora Neale Hurston, as well as by international papers). McCollum was subjected to a gag order. Her case was appealed and overturned by the State Supreme Court.
Before the second trial, McCollum was examined and found mentally incompetent to stand trial. She was committed to the state mental hospital (Florida State Hospital) at Chattahoochee, Florida. In 1974 her attorney, Frank Cannon, obtained her release under the Baker Act, as she was not considered a danger to herself or others.
In the 21st century, McCollum and her case received renewed attention, with books and four film documentaries exploring the issues of race, class, sexual violence, gender, and corruption in local politics from a modernist perspective. McCollum’s case is considered a landmark trial by these people in the struggle for civil rights as they believe she was the first black woman to testify against a white man’s sexual abuse and paternity of their child. It is considered to have helped change attitudes about the practice of “paramour rights”. McCollum’s attorney, Releford McGriff, became part of a team who worked to change Florida’s Jim Crow practice of selecting all-white juries. (Black people were still disenfranchised at that time and thus not eligible to serve as jurors, who were limited to voters.)
The Crime of Ruby McCollum by William Bradford Huie
A Grey Arrow paperback published in 1959 (1st edition) I have not read the book so I don’t know how sympathetic to the subject the book is. I have to admit to knowing nothing of this case that is so topical now as the right in the USA are reintroducing Jim Crow laws.
This is a near fine edition of a rare book.
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I will apply a discount for simultaneous purchases, If I remember.
Signet 932 1952 1st vg
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£6.50
Vengeance is Mine – Mickey Spillane – Signet
Signet 1955 reprint vg+
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£6.50
Mickey Spillane – The Body Lovers
Mickey Spillane – The Body Lovers
Arthur Barker 1st edition dj unclipped book vg+ but for booksellers stamp on ffep – A Mike Hammer Mystery
£7.50
Mickey Spillane – The Day of the Guns
Mickey Spillane – The Day of the Guns
Arthur Barker 1965 1st – Fine Book no stamps or inscriptions vg unclipped dj
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Folio Society third printing 2003 vg+ (books fine)
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£50.00
The Adventures of Robin Hood by Roger Lancelyn Green Illustrated John Hodder
Folio Society Third Printing a fine book in a fine slip case.
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£15.00
Other Folio Society in stock all can be posted to UK address for about £15
Panther 1323 1965 reprint vg+
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£6.50
Beyond all Pity – The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus
Panther 1970 1st vg+
Carolina Maria de Jesus grew up in the favelas of Brazil, while living in a wooden shack with her three children she kept a diary of her life. A newspaper asked to publish it, the response was so overwhelming that it became the bestselling Brazilian book in history.
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£6.00
Five Roads to S’agaro by K G Ballard
Panther 1962 1st vg
“Run from the shadows…… run from the dark…… hide from the man who wants you – DEAD!”
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£6.50
H.E.BATES – The Poacher
Panther 1959 2nd vg
“Passions ran strong and shattered the peace of a quiet backwater”
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£6.50
COME LIKE A STORM – E G Cousins
Panther 1959 1st vg+ Josh Kirby cover art. “Away from the horror of ghettos and concentration camps, they fled to Palestine in “Hell-Ships” of the Mediterranean”
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£12.00
Eric Linklater – The Men of Ness
Panther 1959 1st vg+
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£6.00
SPARTACUS – Howard Fast
Panther 1970 reprint vg+
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£6.00
Alexander Federoff – Falling Through the Night
Panther 1966 1st vg+
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£6.00
Eric Frank Russell Dark Tides
Dark Tides by Eric Frank Russell
Panther 1963 1st edition vg- Scribbles on inside of front cover and market stall stamp on title page, but it is a very rare book.
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£12.50
Stock. I have not done a recent stock check but these are the titles I should have. Please contact me if you have any questions.
Badger WW 136 undated vg+
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£6.00
Stock. My records tell me I have the books listed below but it’s a while since I did a stock check. However if you require it I will be happy to try to remember where I put them and what remuneration I would require to part company with them.
Hodder 484 1961 reprint vg++
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£6.00
PQ 17 Convoy To Hell: the survivors Story. by PAUL LUND & HARRY LUDLAM
Reading this book really highlights how little we know what these merchant seamen went through to supply the ungrateful Stalin. This book is about the infamous PQ17 convoy which got slaughtered when told to scatter by Admiral Pound. On nothing more than an assumption! Many men lost their lives, pointlessly, in the freezing waters. The signal to scatter was their death nel. The men of the Royal Navy ships couldn’t believe what they were being ordered to do. There has been a dark cloud hanging over Pounds decision to send that signal ever since. Hindsight is a wonderful thing. We weren’t there, those men were. Read this book and learn about the stories inside the pages. Allow your imagination to place you there at that time on one of those ships that got left behind, and see if you would have done anything different based on the information known at that time. I tried, and failed. As I was basing my decision on what I know today. Either way, this is a definate read to purchase. Just to give a sense of what it may have been like.
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£6.50
Stock not checked recently but I should have all listed below. Don’t hesitate to ask me if I can find them and what price I am asking.
Auther
Title
Publisher
Condition
Date
Edition
Letter
Number
Forester CS
The Good Shepherd
NEL
vg
0
Pope Dudley
Ramage at Trafalgar
Fontana
vg
1990
7th
ISBN
0
Poolman Kenneth
Illustrious
NEL
vg
1974
0
Woodman Richard
Under False Colours
Warner
f
1992
1st
0
Woodman Richard
The Bomb Vessel
Sphere
vg+
1985
1st
0
Woodman Richard
The Flying Squadron
Warner
f
1993
1st
0
Pope Dudley
Ramage and the Saracens
Fontana
vg+
1990
1st
0
Hardy Adam
FOX – Prize Money
NEL
vg+
1974
rep
2
Hardy Adam
FOX – Siege
NEL
vg
1974
rep
3
Hardy Adam
FOX – Treasure
NEL
vg+
1974
rep
4
Hardy Adam
FOX – Powder Monkey
NEL
vg+
1973
1st
5
Hardy Adam
FOX – Sea of Gold
Pinnacle
vg
1974
1st
6
Hardy Adam
FOX – Court Martial
NEL
vg+
1974
1st
7
Hardy Adam
FOX – Battle Smoke
NEL
vg+
1974
1st
8
Hardy Adam
FOX – Cut and Thrust
NEL
vg+
1974
1st
9
Hardy Adam
FOX – Borders Away
NEL
vg
1975
1st
10
Hardy Adam
FOX – Firesgip
NEL
vg+
1975
1st
11
Hardy Adam
FOX – Blood Beach
NEL
vg
1975
1st
12
Hardy Adam
FOX – Sea Flame
NEL
vg+
1976
1st
13
Hardy Adam
FOX – Close Quarters
NEL
vg
1977
1st
14
Forester CS
The Captain from Connecticut
Four Square
vg
1st
27
Woodward C Van
The Battle for Leyte Gulf
Four Square
vg
1958
1st
30
Frischauer W & RJ
The Navy’s Here
Pan
vg+
1st
GP
56
Forester CS
Liutenant Hornblower
Pan
vg
1957
1st
GP
72
Forester CS
The Naval War of 1812
Four Square
vg-
1958
1st
72
Forester CS
Liutenant Hornblower
Pan
vg+
1959
2nd
GP
72
Forester CS
Lieutenant Hornblower
Pan
vg
3rd
X
256
Sellwood AV
Stand By To Die
Four Square
vg
1961
1st
302
Rayner DA
The Long Fight
Fontana
vg
1960
1st
384
Winn Godfrey
‘PQ’ 17 A Story of a Ship
Arrow
vg+
1963
2nd
430
Bradford Ernle
The Mighty Hood
Hodder
vg+
1961
rep
484
Taylor James
Prisoner of the Kormoran
Panther
525
Monsarrat Nicholas
HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour
Panther
vg
1964
rep
560
Monsarrat Nicholas
HMS Marlborough Will Enter Harbour
Panther
vg
1956
560
Mallalieu J P W
Very Ordinary Seaman
Panther
vg
1959
570
Fuchido & Okumiya
Midway
Arrow
vg
1st
614
Landsborough Gordon
The Battle of the River Plate
Panther
vg
1956
2nd
626
Monsarrat Nicholas
Three Corvettes
Panther
vg
2nd
652
Dodson Kenneth
Away all Boats
Panther
vg+
1958
2nd
677
Weyher & Ehrlich
The Black Raider
Panther
vg
1957
1st
706
Moore Donald
All of One Company
Corgi
–
1959
1st
GB
722
Grenfell Russell
The Bismarck Episode
Panther
vg-
1957
1st
734
Hough Richard
The Hunting of Force Z
Fontana
vg
1964
1st
990
Forester CS
Flying Colours
Penguin
vg
1969
5th
1113
Forester CS
A Ship of the Line
Penguin
vg+
1st
1114
Forester CS
Mr Midshipman Hornblower
Penguin
vg
1956
1st
1115
Forester CS
The Commodore
Penguin
vg
1956
1st
1116
Bowan Rober O
Bamboo
Signet
vg
1955
1st
1201
Pope Dudley
Ramage and the Guillotine
Fontana
vg
1985
5th
4823
Callison Brian
A Frenzy of Merchantmen
Fontana
vg-
1978
1st
5424
Pope Dudley
Ramage’s Challenge
Fontana
vg+
1986
1st
7336
Lund & Ludlam
PQ17 Convoy to Hell
NEL
vg
1972
12999
White James Dillon
Kelso Captain of Marine No. 2
NEL
vg
1976
1st
28658
White James Dillon
Kelso Commodore Kelso No. 3
NEL
vg+
1976
1st
29077
White James Dillon
Kelso A Wind in the Rigging
NEL
vg+
1977
1st
30970
White James Dillon
Kelso Sread of Sail No. 5
NEL
vg+
1977
1st
31942
Only a few of the titles as I have only just included “Navy” as a category whilst stock checking. Please contact me if you want any more information or are searching another title. The prices do not, in the most part, include postage, so please ask for details.