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VICTORIAN (or near) BOOKS

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The Herring Boat or a Quarrel and a Reconciliation

Approx. 6″ X 4″ published by The Religious Tract Society, undated but about 1900. Blue cloth blind blocked boards with Gilt lettering and black detail. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Flamborough – Village and Headland edited by Robert Fisher.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1894. Various Writers and Edited by Robert Fisher. A well illustrated edition with chapters including Geology, dialect, Birds, the church, botany, folk lore etc. Published in the original blue cloth covers. Quite a nice and rare example. Must be described as a Hansom book. There is a neat dedication on ffep otherwise no stamps or marks.

£55.00

Ellery Queen

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Ellery Queen – The House of Brass

Gollancz 1968 1st dj vg+ unclipped book vg small owners sticker on ffep Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£7.50

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Queen Ellery	And on the Eighth Day	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Dutch Shoe Mystery	Pocket Book	£2.50
Queen Ellery	The Forth Side of the Triangle	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Murderer is a Fox	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Roman Hat Mystery	Pocket Book	£2.50
Queen Ellery (ed)	Mystery Stories	Pan	£4.00	vg		1st
Queen Ellery	Book of Mystery Stories	Pan	£2.00	vg		6th
Queen Ellery	The Virgin Heiress	Pan	£3.00	vg		1st
Queen Ellery	The Four of Hearts	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg-
Queen Ellery	Halfway House	Pocket Book	£1.50	vg-	1945
Queen Ellery	The Devil to Pay	Pan	£4.00	vg+		1st
Queen Ellery	There Was am Old Woman	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg-
Queen Ellery	Calamity Town	Pan	£4.00	vg+	1960	1st
Queen Ellery	The Murderer is a Fox	Pan	£5.00	f		1st
Queen Ellery	The Quick and the Dead	Pan	£5.00	f		1st
Queen Ellery	The Door Between	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg-	1947	1st
Queen Ellery	The Origin of Evil	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
Queen Ellery	Q B I	Pocket Book	£2.50
Queen Ellery	The American Gun Mystery	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The French Powder Mystery	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Roman Hat Mystery	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1956	1st
Queen Ellery	The Chinese Orange Mystery	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1956	1st
Queen Ellery	The Dutch Shoe Mystery	Penguin	£2.50
Queen Ellery	The Dutch Shoe Mystery	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Greek Coffin Mystery	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	Double, Double	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Spanish Cape Mystery	Penguin	£3.00	vg	1958	1st
Queen Ellery	The Door Between	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Egyptian Cross Mystery	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The adventures of Ellery Queen	Penguin	£2.50			1st
Queen Ellery	The Most Wanted Man in the World	NEL	£2.50	vg	1968	1st
Queen Ellery	Calamity Town	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1966	1st
Queen Ellery Editor	Ellery Queen’s Awards tenth Series	Perma	£2.50	vg	1957	1st
Queen Ellery	Death Spins the Platter	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1962	1st
Queen Ellery	Q B I	Mayflower	£2.50

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.

MODESTY BLAISE

November 6, 2021October 20, 2021notinheckmondwikebookshopLeave a Comment

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
O’Donnell Peter	Modesty Blaise	Pan	£2.50			rep
O’Donnell Peter	Modesty Blaise The Silver Mistress	Pan	£2.50	vg	1975
O’Donnell Peter	Modesty Blaise I Lucifer	Pan	£2.50	vg	1973
O’Donnell Peter	Modesty Blaise The Impossible Virgin	Pan	£2.50	vg	1973	1st
O’Donnell Peter	Modesty Blaise Pieces of Modesty	Pan	£2.50	vg	1972	1st
O’Donnell Peter	Modesty Blaise Dead Man’s Handle	Pan	£2.50	vg+	1986
O’Donnell Peter	Modesty Blaise Sabre-Tooth	Pan	£2.50	vg	1967	1st

Modest Blaise – Sabre Tooth

Pan 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.

£5.00

Modesty Blaise

Pan 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.

£5.00

Modesty Blaise – The Silver Mistress

Pan 1975 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.

£5.00

Modesty Blaise – I lucifer

Pan 1973 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.

£5.00

Modesty Blaise – The Impossible Virgin

Pan 1973 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.

£5.00

Modesty Blaise – Pieces of Modesty

Pan 1972 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.

£5.00

Modesty Blaise – Dead Man’s Handle

Pan 1986 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.

£5.00

Ethel Mannin

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Ethel Mannin – Women also Dream

Jarrold’s. 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

Ethel Mannin – Crescendo

Jarrold’s 1948 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

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date
Mannin Ethel	Pilgrms	Jarrolds	£5.00	vg
Mannin Ethel	Women Also Dream	Jarrolds	£5.00	vg
Mannin Ethel	Green Willow	Jarrolds	£2.50	g
Mannin Ethel	Crescendo	Jarrolds	£5.00	vg	1948

Roberttown

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Roberttown Parish Magazine 1933

All 1933 issues bound into one volume. Not a lot about Roberttown, other than adverts, but a few snippets that cast an eye on Village life. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£12.50

Roberttown

A 20 page, sort of Town Guide produced by North Kirklees Youth Action in 1983. Through the post in UK £2.50

£2.50

Not a great deal about Roberttown mostly Wakefield Diocesan News but I like them for the local adverts as they capture the flavour of the time. You can but your coal (weekly Payments taken) get a permanent Wave, order your coffin, help a Waif or Stray or even get a High Pressure Greasing.

All Saints Robert Town Parish Magazine January 1938

Not a lot about Roberttown but lots of averts. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

All Saints Robert Town Parish Magazine June 1938

Not a lot about Roberttown but lots of averts. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

All Saints Robert Town Parish Magazine August 1938

Not a lot about Roberttown but lots of averts. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£3.00

D H Lawrence

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I don’t normally catalogue books on the open shelves in the shop, but thought because I had a lot of Lawrence, thought it worth it.

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Lawrence D H	England My England	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	England my England	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1968	6th
Lawrence D H	Lady Chatterley’s Lover	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	Lady Chatterley’s Lover	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1960	2nd
Lawrence D H	Lady Chatterley’s Lover	Penguin	£2.50	vg-		1st
Lawrence D H	Love Among the Heystacks	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	Selected Essays	Penguin	£3.00	vg	1950	1st
Lawrence D H	Selected Poems	Penguin	£2.50	vg		rep
Lawrence D H	Sons and Lovers	Penguin	£2.50	vg
Lawrence D H	Sons and Lovers	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	St Mawr / The Virgin & The Gipsy	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	Stories Essays And Poems	Everyman	£2.50	vg	1939	1st
Lawrence D H	The Plumed Serpent	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	The Plumed Serpent	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1966	4th
Lawrence D H	The Prussian Officer	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	The Rainbow	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	The Trespasser	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1960	1st
Lawrence D H	The Virgin and the Gipsey	Shelf	£2.00
Lawrence D H	The White Peacock	Penguin	£1.50	vg
Lawrence D H	The White Peacock	Everyman	£3.00	vg+	1935	1st
Lawrence D H	The Woman ho Rode Away	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1968	6th
Lawrence D H	Women in Love	BAG 06	£2.00
Lawrence D H	Women in Love	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1960	1st

BIGGLES * GIMLET * KING – Captain W E Johns

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Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Johns WE	Biggles Air Commadore	Armada	£5.00			1st
Johns WE	Biggles and the Black Mask	Knight	£2.50	vg
Johns WE	Biggles and the Black Raider	Armada	£3.00	vg	1970	1st
Johns WE	Biggles and the Dark Intruder	Knight	£3.50	vg	1967	1st
Johns WE	Biggles and the Plot that Failed	Knight	£2.50	vg
Johns WE	Biggles Breaks the Silence	Knight	£2.50	vg	1983	1st
Johns WE	Biggles Defies the Swastika	Armada	£5.00	vg	1962	1st
Johns WE	Biggles Goes to War	Armada	£2.50	vg	1962	1st
Johns WE	Biggles Hits the Trail	Armada	£2.50	vg		r
Johns WE	Biggles Hunts Big Game	Armada	£4.00	vg	1983	r
Johns WE	Biggles in the Baltic	Armada	£5.00	vg	1963	1st
Johns WE	Biggles in the Terai	Knight	£2.00	vg	1968	1st
Johns WE	Biggles Learns to Fly	Armada	£4.00	vg-
Johns WE	Biggles’ Second Case	H&S	£3.50	vg		1st
Johns WE	Biggles Sorts it out	Knight	£2.50	vg+	1961
Johns WE	Biggles The Rescue Flight	Armada	£2.50	vg	1962	1st
Johns WE	Biggles Works it Out	Knight	£2.50	vg	1984	1st
Johns WE	Gimlet Bores In	Armada	SOLD	vg+	1964	1st
Johns WE	Gimlet Comes Home	Armada	SOLD	vg	1964	1st
Johns WE	Gimlet Goes Again	Armada	SOLD	vg	1963	1st
Johns WE	Gimlet Mops Up	Armada	SOLD	vg
Johns WE	Gimlet Off the Map	Armada	SOLD	vg	1964	1st
Johns WE	Gimlet Takes a Job	Armada	SOLD	vg	1963	1st
Johns WE	Gimlet’s Oriental Quest	Armada	SOLD	vg
Johns WE	King of the Commandos	Armada	£5.00	vg	1963	1st
Johns WE	Kings of Space	Piccolo	£2.50	vg-
Johns WE	No Rest for Biggles	Armada	£5.00	vg+	1963	1st
Johns WE	Return to Mars	Scholastic	£2.00	vg	1980
Johns WE	Segeant Bigglesworth C.I.D.	H&S	£4.00	vg+	1954	2nd

I haven’t stock checked all of the above, when I do some of the prices will go up.

Biggles and the Rescue Flight – Captain W E Johns

Red Fox – Fine

£5.00

CYCLING – A WHEEL TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE by Arthur H J King & “Half Way Round” by Peter Knottley

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The book is the narrative of a 5,000 mile journey with a bicycle through Northern Europe including Germany, the Baltic states, Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark. Size: 5½” x 8¾” 464 pages with some illustrations and a map . Signed by Author first edition 1940.

A WHEEL TO THE ARCTIC CIRCLE by Arthur H J King

£10.00

Not that unusual nowadays, cycling to the Arctic, but this chap did it before the second world war.

“Half Way Round” – A bicycle ride from England to Australia 1970 by Peter Knottley

48 page card cover a self publication Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

SGD 5.00

TRAMS

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The Centenary of the Electric Tram – Time Chart

18 page 30X21 cm booklet. vg Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£4.00

Trams in Trouble by Brian Hinchcliffe

64 page softcover published in 1990 basically photos of Tram Accidents in Fine condition. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£5.00

Twilight Stories – Rhoda Broughton

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Twilight Stories 110

Home and Van Thal, London, UK, 1947. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Art by Felix Kelly (illustrator). Reprint. Home and Van Thal , London, UK 1947 Reprint of the of the 1879 edition which is a re-titled reprint of the 1873 first edition Titled “Tales for Christmas Eve” Contents include 5 stories ‘ The Truth, The Whole Truth , And Nothing But The Truth” ; “The Man With The Nose” ; “Behold It Was A Dream ! ” ; ” Poor Pretty Bobby ” ; ” Under the cloak ” 99 pages A very good copy with light edge wear and dust soiling to the top page edges , slight foxing to end papers, in a just good dust jacket witj edge wear, a few small edge tears.

Printed in many editions this edition is offered on the web at prices near the £50 mark.

Twilight Stories by Rhoda Broughton

£25.00

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