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Houdini’s Spirit World Dunninger’s Psychic Revelations

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Harry Houdini (1874-1926) is remembered as the world’s greatest escape artist. Joseph Dunninger (1892-1975) was a mentalist largely forgotten now but who was extremely famous in the 1930s and 1940s. He was a precursor of The Amazing Kreskin. Both were debunkers of fake spirit mediums.

Houdini’s Spirit World Dunningers’s Psychic Revelations

Published by Tower, not only undated it declines to tell us who the authors are. are we supposed to presume they are Houdini and Dunninger? 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

The World That Summer – Robert Muller

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The World That Summer – Robert Muller

“A Jewish Boy caught up in the horror and brutality of the Nazi Youth Movement” I didn’t know how to classify this book. It is a UK Ace 1961 1st in near fine condition 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

Charles Eric Maine

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Charles Eric Maine – Calculated Risk

Corgi 1962 1st edition in vg+ with what I think is a great cover 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

Only what I have catalogued so far

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date
Maine Charles Eric	Calculated Risk	Corgi	£10.00	vg	1962
Maine Charles Eric	Count Down	Corgi	£2.50	vg
Maine Charles Eric	Crisis 2000	Corgi	£2.50	vg-	1958
Maine Charles Eric	The Man Who Owned the World	Panther	£2.50	vg
Maine Charles Eric	The Tide Went Out	Corgi	£2.50	vg	1960
Maine Charles Eric	Timeliner	Corgi	£3.50	vg	1958
Maine Charles Eric	World Without Men	Digit UK	£2.50	vg+	1963

Digests

Vol	Number	Title	Year	Month	Price	Contents
27	81	New Worlds	1959	March	£2.50	Charles Eric Maine – James White – John Brunner – Philip E High
93	2	Analog	1974	04	£2.50	Brenda Pearce Spider Robinson – Larry Niven – Charles Eric Maine – Nemeth – Walling

Charles Eric Main

Any of the above other than “Calculated Risk” please specify title; 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

TEDDY BOY – and other JD

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DUKE – Hal Ellson

Popular Library 1950 2nd vg Posted to UK address – outside UK please contact me for postal rates

£6.50

Corner Boy – Herbert Simmons

Macfadden 1968 1st vg Posted to UK address

£5.00

Street of the Lost – David Goodis

Priory vg- To UK address

£9.00

Tomboy by Hal Ellson

Priory vg-

£5.00

Jailbird Street – Hal Ellson

Priory – vg Posted to UK

£9.00

Jailbird Street – Hal Ellson

Monarch 1963 1st vg Posted to UK address

£11.50

Teddy Boy – Ernest Ryman

Ace (UK) H399 1960 1st “The pathetic story of a teenage criminal whose career ends in murder” I don’t know who the illustrator was, but does not look like a “Teddy Boy” to me’ Through the post to any UK address

£20.00

Harrison High – John Farris

Ace (UK) 1961 1st vg- A SHOCKER “makes Harrison High sounds more like Peyton Place High” Through the post to UK address

£5.00

The Shook-up Generation – Harrison Salisbury

Ace (UK) H454 1961 1st “TEEN_AGE TERROR in slum and suburb; a shocking expose of juvenile delinquency. Through the post to UK address

£6.00

The Immortal – Walter Ross

Corgi 1960 1st The corrupt private life of a teenage idol, who – like James Dean – Dies too young” 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

The Leather Boys – Gillian Freeman

Four Square 1966 Posted to UK address

£11.50

In Too Deep – B Nicholson

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

£6.50

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Braithwaite ER	To Sir, With Love	NEL	£2.50	vg	1969
Ryder Thom	Angel Alone	NEL	£3.50	vg	1975	1st
Norman Mick	Angel Challenge	NEL	£5.00	vg		1st
Norman Mick	Angels From Hell	NEL	£15.00	vg	1974	2nd
Wiles John	Asphelt Playground	Ace UK	SOLD	vg		1st
Margulies Leo	Back Alley Jungle	Gold Medal UK	£4.00	f	1963	1st
Christian Petra	Bed and Bawd	NEL	£2.50	vg	1975	2nd
Hudson Jan	Bikers at War	NEL	£10.00	vg	1976	1st
Stadly Pat	Black Leather Barbarians	NEL	£4.00	vg
Barron Hugh	Bonnie	NEL	£2.50	vg	1972	3rd
Allen Richard	Boot Boys	NEL	£5.00	vg	1972	1st
Reynolds Frank	Freewheelin Frank	NEL	£10.00	vg	1969	1st
Norman Mick	Guardian Angels	NEL	£3.00	vg		1st
Farris John	Harrison High	Ace UK	£2.50	vg-	1961	1st
Hudson Jan	Hell’s Angels	NEL	£5.00	vg	1971	rep
Ellson Hal	Jailbait Street	Priory	£7.50	vg+
Tenny Vivien	Just Ask the Lonely	NEL	£10.00	vg		2nd
Cave Peter	Mama	NEL	£5.00	vg-	1973	rep
Ellson Hal	Rock	Ballantine	£7.50	vg loose	1955	1st
Cave Peter	Rougue Angels	NEL	£25.00	vg	1973	1st
Allen Richard	Skinhead Girls	NEL	£25.00	f	1972	1st
Allen Richard	Smoothies	NEL	£5.00	f	1973	1st
Allen Richard	Sorts	NEL	£10.00	vg	1973	1st
Croft Michael	Spare the Rod	Panther	£3.50	vg		2nd
Cave Peter	Speed Freaks	NEL	£2.50	vg
Calitri Charles	Strike Heaven on the Face	Ace UK	£4.00	vg+	1961	1st
Allen Richard	Suadhead	NEL	£15.00	vg	1973	9th
Ryman Ernest	Teddy Boy	Ace UK	£20.00	vg	1960	1st
Stuart Alex R	The Bike From Hell	NEL	£15.00	vg+	1975	2nd
Stuart Alex	The Bikers	NEL	£2.50	vg-	1975	2nd
Hunter Evan	The Blackboard Jungle	Panther	£1.00	vg-	1962
Baker Howard	The Cellar Boys	Five Star	£12.50	f	1973
Stuart Alex R	The Devil’s Rider	NEL	£2.50	f	1975	2nd
Nemerov Howard	The Homecoming Game	Ace UK	£2.50	vg	1960	1st
Ross Walter	The Immortal	Corgi	£5.00	vg	1960	1st
Stuart Alex	The Last Trip	NEL	£2.50	vg	1975	3rd
Freeman Gillian	The Leather Boys	Four Square	£10.00	vg+	1966	2nd
Freeman Gillian	The Leather Boys	NEL	£5.00	vg	1972	2nd
Christian Petra	The New Drifters	NEL	£2.50	vg		r
Cave Peter	The Run	NEL	£15.00	vg	1972	1st
Salisbury Harrison	The Shook-Up Generation	Ace UK	£4.00	vg	1961	1st
Stearn Jess	The Wasted Years	Macfadden	£3.50	vg	1968	2nd
Stroud John	Up The City Road	NEL	£10.00	vg
Saxon Kurt	Wheels of Rage	NEL	£20.00	vg	1975	2nd
Donovan Frank R	Wild Kids	Macfadden	£2.50	vg
Hunter Evan	The Blackboard Jungle	Panther	£3.00	vg	1960	7th

Some of the above have not been recently Stock Checked so I might have difficulty remembering in what safe place I put them.

Classic Paperbacks (pricey)

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All About Annette – Alan Marshall = Donald E Westlake

All About Annette by Alan Marshall (Donald E Westlake

Midwood Book #51, 1960. First edition. A Paperback Original by Donald E. Westlake writing as Marshall. A VG+ copy with bright, clean covers and a uncreased spine. One of Westlake’s titles written as Alan Marshall, a pen name shared by several authors writing erotic pulp paperbacks in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

£45.00

The Faces of Love by John Hearne

Another classic cover produced by WDL on another hard to find (in any format) book. I did find this http://killercoversoftheweek.blogspot.com/2017/02/friday-finds-faces-of-love.html that gives a good description of the book. Posted to UK

£21.50

The Vengeance of Hurricane Williams by Gordon Young

A rare edition of an oft printed classic, filmed in the 50’s as Hurricane Smith for some reason, I have not been able to find a reference to this edition. I think it was the third in the series.

The Vengeance of Hurricane Williams

A rare edition of an oft printed classic, filmed in the 50’s as Hurricane Smith for some reason, I have not been able to find a reference to this edition. I think it was the third in the series. To any UK Address

£11.50

True Police Stories – Bowery Buzzard

Published by William C Merrett, London. A true example of “Mushroom Publishing” undated but must be about 1945. 36 pages with a stiffer cover that is printed both sides. Posted to UK address

£15.00

The “MONKEY TRIAL” – Six Days or Forever? by Ray Ginger

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Six Days or Forever? – Ray Granger

I would have said everybody knows about “The Monkey Trial” but having watched contestants on the Chase, I now say, some people will know about “The Monkey Trial”. However; “Here is the full record – the Background. the Personalities, the people, the politics- of one of the most explosive courtroom battles the world has ever witnessed” Published by Signet in 1960 in at least vg condition. Posted to UK address.

£6.50

Michael Holloway circa 1950

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Does anyone know anything about this author. Because of the price I place this book in the late 40’s early 50’s but can’t find it listed anywhere. This is a tatty copy published by Fiction House The Strand London (undated)

Erle Stanley Gardener and A.A. Fair (the same bloke)

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All Grass isn’t Green – A A Fair (Erle Stanley Gardner)

1972 Book Club Associates copy f/f Posted to UK address

£5.00

I am of an age when I can’t think of Perry Mason without thinking about a wheelchair. I must admit I can’t remember reading any DA books, but did read a lot of Perry Mason, even though I was always impatient to get to the court room as that was the bit I enjoyed. You can tell from the list below how popular he was in the 50’s and 60’s. I have lumped the books together but generally Gardner is Perry Mason (tcot) and Fair is the DA, though there are a few that don’t fit.

I have not stock checked the full listing below but am pretty confident about finding them in the shop. I am sure I also have Hard Backs but will have to wait till I can next go to my shop.

I have not yet found out how to offer PayPal that allows choice, so if you are interested email me and I can send a PayPal invoice or accept credit card or bank transfer. david.sheard@ntlworld.com

Stock

Auther	Title	Publisher	Price	Condition	Date	Edition
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Bedrooms Have Windows	Corgi	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Beware the Crows	Corgi	£2.50	vg		rep
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Cats Prow at Night	Corgi	£3.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Crows Can’t Count	Corgi	£2.50	vg		rep
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Double or Quits	Guilds	£2.50	vg	1951	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Murder Up My Sleeve	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1961	3rd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Angry Mourner	Pan	£3.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Angry Mourner	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1960
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Backward Mule	Pan	£3.50	vg-		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Baited Hook	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1957	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Calendar Girl	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg+	1963
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Calender Girl	Pan	£3.00	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Caretakers Cat	Penguin	£2.00	vg	1963	4th
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Cautious Coquette	Pan	£4.00	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Cautious Coquette	Pan	£2.00	vg		2nd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Counterfeit Eye	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1962	3rd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Crooked Candle	Pocket Book	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Curious Bride	Pan	£3.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Daring Decoy	Pan	£2.50	g		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Deadly Toy	Pan	£2.00	vg-		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Deadly Toy	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1969	7th
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot demure Defendant	Pan	£2.00	vg		2nd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Drowning Duck	Pocket Book	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Drowning Duck	Penguin	£2.00	vg	1957	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Drowning Duck	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1963	3rd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Drowsy Mosquito	Penguin	£4.00	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Dubious Bridegroom	Consul	£3.00	vg	1964	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Empty Tin	Penguin	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Fiery Fingers	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Footloose Doll	Pan	£2.50	vg-		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Fugative Nurse	Pan	£3.50	vg	1962	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Gilded lily	Pan	£3.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Glamerous Ghost	Pan	£4.00	f		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Glamorous Ghost	BAG 05	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Golddiggers Purse	Pocket Book	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Gold-digger’s Purse	Penguin	£2.50	vg-	1959	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Green Eyed Sister	Pan	£2.50	vg+	1962	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Grinning Gorilla	Pan	£2.50	vg		4th
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Hesitant Hostess	Pan	£2.50	vg		2nd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Howling Dog	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1954	rep
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Lame Canary	Pocket Book	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Lame Canary	Penguin	£3.00	vg	1953	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Lazy Lover	Pan	£3.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Lazy Lover	WDL	£5.00	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Long Legged Models	Pan	£1.50	vg		3rd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Long-legged Models	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1960
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Lucky Legs	Pan	£4.50	vg+		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Lucky Looser	Pan	£3.00	f		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Moth Eaten Mink	Pan	£2.50	vg		3rd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Moth Eaten Mink	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1956
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Musical Cow	Pan	£2.50	vg	1960	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Musical Cow	Pan	£2.50	f	1962	3rd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Mythical Monkeys	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Negligent Nymph	Pan	£3.00	vg-		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Negligent Nymph	Pan	£2.50	vg		2nd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Nervous Accomplice	Bag 18	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Nervous Accomplice	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot One Eyed Witness	Pan	£4.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Perjured Parrot	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1950	8th
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Restless Redhead	Pan	£2.50	vg		4th
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Restless Redhead	Pan	£3.00	vg	1962	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Runaway Corpse	Pan	£3.50	f		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Screaming Woman	Pan	£3.00	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Singing Shirt	Pan	£3.50	f		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Sleepwalkers Niece	Penguin	£3.00	vg	1954	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Smoking Chimney	Pocket Book	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Stuttering Bishop	Penguin	£2.50	vg	1961	3rd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Sulky Girl	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Sunbathers Diary	Pan	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Terrified Typist	Pan	£2.50	vg-	1964	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley	tcot Vagabond Virgin	Consul	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Vagabond Virgin	Bag 27	£2.50
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Vagabond Virgin	Pan	£3.50	f	1968	2nd
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Velvet Claws	Pan	£3.50	vg+	1960	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	tcot Waylaid Wolf	Pan	£2.50	vg	1968	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	The Bigger They Come	Pocket Book	£1.00	g+	1943	2nd
Gardner Erle Stanley	tcot Forgotten Murder	WDL	£2.50	vg	1960	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	The D.A. Cooks a Goose	Pocket Book	£2.50	vg	1949
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	The DA Breaks a Seal	Penguin	£2.50	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	The DA Breaks an Egg	Pan	£3.00	f	1959	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	The DA Takes a Chance	Pan	£3.00	vg		1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Top of the Heap	Corgi	£1.00	g	1958	1st
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	Two Clues	Penguin	£1.00	g
Gardner Erle Stanley /Fair AA	You Can Die Laughing	Corgi	£2.50	vg+	1963	rep

JOHN BERRY – Heckmondwike’s Own HANGMAN

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John Berry was born in Blanket Hall Street (the way down to Morrisons) in 1852. Though the bulk of the book is about his career as the Nations Public Executioner or “Hangman”, the bits that I found most interesting was about growing up in Heckmondwike, his early career choices and his life after retirement when he campaigned against Capital Punishment.

The book plots his career and the innovations he made to his “trade” detailing some of his more famous executions. I know the subject is gruesome, but if you are a serious scholar of Spen Valley History a copy is essential for your collection.

Just as an aside, what is it that attracts Yorkshiremen to this profession, not counting the failed drunk from Dewsbury?

Executioner The Chronicles of James Berry – Victorian Hangmen by Stuart P Evans

Published by Sutton Publishing in 2004, 356 pages indexed and illustrated I can despatch (no pun intended) a hardback copy to a UK address for

£12.50

Executioner The Chronicles of James Berry – Victorian Hangmen by Stuart P Evans – Paperback

The paperback is large scale (essentially the same book as the hard back but with card covers.

£9.00

Walking & Strolling around Sidmouth

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Bypaths & Strolls around SIDMOUTH two pamphlets

Published by The Sid Vale Association. Strolls 3rd edition early 70’s 40 pages and an inserted folded map. Bypaths 17th edition 32 pages with inserted folded map. Both as new. Through the post anywhere in UK (including Sidmouth)

£4.00

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