The only Not in Heckmonwike Heckmondwike second hand book shop
Porno sex, ruthless blackmail, savage murder – just openers in a game of big money and brutal betrayal….. “Excitement…an armtwisting pageturner”
What a “blurb” and Soon to be a major movie!
I am not usually a fan of photographic covers but I can make an exception for this one.
Fifty-Two Pickup – Elmore Leonard
Dell first printing, 1975. I can’t find this cover illustrated elsewhere, a pity because it is far better than the covers I have seen. Posted to any UK address
£21.50
The Iron Man – Ted Hughes
This is a fine copy of the faber and faber paperback this is a 1983 reprint. posted to your UK address
£3.00
Stock
| Title | Publisher | Price | Condition | Date | Edition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Daughter of Fu-Manchu | Corgi | £3.50 | vg+ | 1st | |
| Emperor Fu Manch | Panther | £2.50 | vg- | ||
| President Fu Manchu | Cassell | £2.50 | ex-Lib | 1957 | |
| President Fu-Manchu | Corgi | £3.00 | vg+ | 1967 | 1st |
| Re-enter Fu Manchu | Panther | £4.00 | vg+ | 1st | |
| Re-Enter Fu Manchu | Gold Medal | £3.00 | vg | ||
| Shadow of Fu Manchu | Pyramid | £5.00 | vg | 1963 | 1st |
| The Bride of Fu Manchu | Pyramid | £5.00 | vg | 1962 | 1st |
| The Devil Doctor | Corgi | £3.50 | vg+ | 1st | |
| The Drums of Fu-Manchu | Corgi | £2.50 | vg+ | 1968 | 1st |
| The Hand of Fu-Manchu | Pyramid | £5.00 | vg | 1962 | 1st |
| The Insidious Doctor Fu-Manch | Pyramid | £7.50 | vg | 1961 | 1st |
| The Mask of Fu Manchu | Star | £2.50 | vg | 1977 | 1st |
| The Mask of Fu-Manch | Corgi | £1.00 | vg- | ||
| The Mask of Fu-Manch | Corgi | £2.50 | vg | 1967 | 1st |
| The Mystery of Doctor Fu Manchu | Star | £1.50 | vg- | 1977 | 1st |
| The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu | Corgi | £3.50 | vg+ | 1st | |
| The Si-Fan Mysteries | Consul | SOLD | vg+ | 1961 | 1st |
| The Si-Fan Mysteries | Corgi | £2.50 | vg+ | 1967 | 1st |
| The Trial of Fu-Manchu | Corgi | £2.50 | vg | 1968 | 1st |
| The Wrath of Fu Manchu | Daw | £3.00 | vg |
The Insidious Doctor Fu-Manchu
This is the pyramid first edition, the cover was changed slightly for the second edition for some reason. Posted to any UK destination
£9.00
Shadow * Bride * Hand – Sax Rohmer Per copy
The price is for one of these Pyramid editions, posted to your UK address. Make sure to specify which title you are interested in.
£6.50
Re-Enter Fu-Manchu – Sax Rohmer
This is the Gold Medal edition posted to UK address
£5.00
The Wrath of Fu Manchu – SaxRohmer
The Daw edition Posted to UK location
£5.00
Daughter * Devil * Mystery Sax Rohmer – the price is per copy
Not the best corgi editions, please specify which title you require
£5.00
Any of the other Sax Rohmer titles listed above – Please specify
Through the post to any UK address The illustration was just to fill the void, use the list above for details
£5.00
Always on the look out for any “Local History Books” especially related to the Spen Valley, I came across this book on a general search for “Heckmondwike”, I had no knowledge of it’s existence prior to the search.
This book is a collection of memories of growing up in the Spen Valley (Cornmill Lane) in the 1930’s. I started reading it and read it in one sitting, not because it is short (158 pages) but because it is well written and fascinating.
My interest was heightened by the fact that she lived only a few hundred yards from my shop and home, less than 100 yards from where my mother was born (in 1919). She also went to the same junior school (Millbridge) and secondary school (Heckmondwike Grammar). I could recognise all the places she was referring to. Even without the local connections the book is a great read, I don’t know why I had not come across it previously as it was published in 1996. It was published by a Welsh Publisher and printed in Derbyshire.
I was more than pleased to find her description of a visit to my shop (in it’s original form that is).
A visit to the Berry Hill Co-op Branch (now “Not in Heckmondwike Book Shop”) in the 1930’s, as described by Mavis Roberts in her book “ Call Back Yesterday”
Inside the store were huge keg-shaped blocks of butter, lard and cheese, all open to the air and enough to give present day hygienists a collective heart attack. From these, the assistants would cut the required amount and wrap it in grease proof paper. They did not go to the lengths of slapping the butter into shape, as did the manager of the Maypole Store.
There was a stack of faded-blue paper bags, into which sugar, loose tea and dried fruits were weighed out. There were also huge sides of bacon to be sliced to the customer’s preferred thickness, on the lethal, red bacon-slicer with its rotating blade. Biscuits were also sold loose from large, square tins with glass windows on the lids, so the contents were easily identified.
Call Back Yesterday by Mavis Roberts
This book is a collection of memories of growing up in the Spen Valley (Cornmill Lane) in the 1930’s. I started reading it and read it in one sitting, not because it is short (158 pages) but because it is well written and fascinating. Delivered, or posted to any UK address
£10.00
I can’t locate number six at the moment, but I probably have a copy somewhere.
POLDARK One Book
Fontana Paperback – Please specify witch one you require. Posted to a UK address
£4.00
Beano Comic Library
The Bash street Kids Concert Party
BEANO Comic Library No. 10 1″ missing from bottom of rear cover. In post to UK
£2.50
Little Plum in Plumb Dancing
Beano Comic Library No. 34
£3.50
Simply Smiffy
BEANO Comic Library No. 144
£2.50
Little Plumb
Beano Comic Library No 156 To UK Address
£2.50
“Little Plug”
BEANO Comic Library No 166 Posted to UK address
£2.50
Minnie the Minx in Miss Glamour
BEANO Comic Library No. 179
£2.50
The Beano Book 1995
Clean unclipped but name plate filled in Through post to UK address
£4.00
Before we were bombarded with digital images, photographers had to think about their photographs, they could not take 5000 shots and pick out the one that looked better than the rest. So it is more difficult to choose which photos to use to illustrate a book of thought out photographs. There is still something to be beneficial from looking at these photograph collections.
Scotland in Scene & Story
Printed and published by Valentine & Sons in 1928. 50 pages, each page with a superb photograph and accompanying text. Through the post to anywhere in Scotland (or the rest of the UK)
£5.00
Lovely Lakeland
illustrated by 55 Photoravures composing All the Lakes and a Map Published by G P Abraham Ltd. Keswick 1948 Through the post to UK locations
£5.00
Stories My Mother Never Told Me – Alfred Hitchcock
Published in London by Max Reinhardt in 1964 this is a first edition near fine book and unclipped fine dj Posted to any address in the UK
£12.50
We did maintain the myth that Big Ears was not a single person, but everyone knew he was 99% Eric. Sometime in the mid 90’s Eric collected together all (a portion of) his etchings and many of the words of wisdom , and to be honest, unwisdom from the Gossip Column that appeared in the Spen Valley Spark in and around Cleckheckmonsedge in West Yorkshire. He published a book under the imprint of Hindsite Press, 94 pages and I know I get at least one mention, sad to say many, but not all, of the stars are no longer with us.
BIG Ears in the Kingdom of Kirklees
“A jaundiced look at our Lords and Masters – Yorkshire Politicians and Bureaucrats through the eyes of Big Ears” 94 page illustrated book soft bound. Through the post to UK addresses or sometimes by bicycle if in the Spen Valley
£9.00
Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one of the greatest icons of the twentieth century. Born to a single mother in 1915 Baltimore, Billie Holiday had her first run-in with the law at aged 13. But Billie Holiday is no victim. Her memoir tells the story of her life spent in jazz, smoky Harlem clubs and packed-out concert halls, her love affairs, her wildly creative friends, her struggles with addiction and her adventures in love. Billie Holiday is a wise and aphoristic guide to the story of her unforgettable life.
Lady Sings the Blues – Billie Holiday with William Dufty
Ace Books UK 1960 (1st in this edition) vg- (as you can see on illustrations a label has ben removed top right) To any UK address
£6.50
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| Traill & Lascelles | Just Jazz 3 | Four Square | £2.50 | vg | 1959 | 1st |
| Lomax Alan | Mister Jelly Roll | Pan | £3.00 | f | 1959 | 1st |
| Bunyan Pat | The Big Blues | Digit UK | £3.50 | 1st | ||
| Clews Frank | The Golden Disc | Digit | £2.50 |
