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Peter James – Dead if you Don’t

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Brighton this time with Roy Grace. Demonstrating all the requirements to fit the “modern” detective genre. A boss who speaks gobbledygook is an idiot and has a name to suit (apologies to anyone named Caspian or Pewe), a set of detectives with confused relationship problems, a set of criminals devising twisted and evil ways to torture and kill and a set of victims that have many faults of their own.

Added together though, with a quick moving engaging plot, all it needs to challenge Nordic Noir is for the hero to go to the toilet now and again. All in all though this is a great series that I would recommend. I can’t say I have copies of every one of them in the shop, and can’t go up to check, but as I have read nearly all of them, I must have a fair number.

Just pondering, would it be OK under current rules to offer free delivery of books purchased on-line (just in the Spen Valley).

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All About Arran – Downie

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Downie - All About Arran - HB 181

A 1948 reprint both book and dj vg+. All about Arran for Holiday Maker, Hiker, Mountaineer, Historian, Geologist and Naturalist, no mention of Chief Cook and Bottle washer. 164 pages 170 X 110cm (I would normally have used inches but 1/2 inches make it difficult to type.

I offer it at £2.50 (+p&p if you are not visiting my shop)

Ancient Bridges – North of England

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The Ancient Bridges of the North of England by E. Jervoise, 1931 1st edition. 146 pages well illustrated (can you imagine a book about bridges without illustrations) £3.00.

Climbers Club Guides – South-East England – E C Pyatt

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The revised edition of 1963, 112 pages in a small 6″X4″ with  plastic boards. £2.50.

On a similar theme:

Scafell Group by Oliver and Griffin published by The Fell and Rock Climbing Group of the English Lake District 172 pages fewer illustrations than the other book £2.50

Battledress Pocket – Armed Services Editions

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During the Second World War a non-profit organisation established by the Council on Books in Wartime, produced paperbacks designed to fit in the pockets of combat dress. These five titles are such editions.

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Auther Title Publisher Letter Number  Condition Price
Snow Charles H Sheriff of Yavisa Armed Sevices 784 vg £5.00
Robertson Willard Moon Tide Armed Sevices K 18 vg- £2.50
Chamberlain George Agnew The Phantom Filly Armed Sevices 783 vg £5.00
Benfield Barry Eddie and the archangel Mike Armed Sevices 0 vg- £2.50
Water Frederic F Van De A Home in the Country Armed Sevices 700 vg £2.50

Weston Christine Indigo Armed Services £1.00

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Satan is a Woman – Gil Brewer / Gaywood Press

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Gaywood Press, undated but has a 1952 copyright date Fawcett USA. The cover seems to be identical (or very similar) but different colours to the Gold Medal edition published in 1951 in the USA. This copy has parts of spine missing and has been repaired with “magic tape, otherwise a very compact and tidy copy.

Available for £25.00 (free p&p in UK)

Working Class

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Just a couple more to add to my shelves. Both at £2.50.


Rule John The Labouring Classes in Early Industrial England 1750 -1850 … Longman 0 4th 1991 vg+ £2.50
Lancaster Bill Radicalism Cooperation & Socialism Leicester working-class politics 1860 – 1906 Leicester  University Press  1st 1987 HB/dj vg+ £2.50

 

Bubu and Marie by C L Philippe

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I tried to find a decent precis of this book, but think it is two books and has been published in many formats, working on the principle that the cover gives a bit of a clue and that anyone willing to pay the £10 I am asking for this book will know exactly what this is about, I have stopped searching.