Category: Crime

Signet 794 1950 1st vg- Price includes UK Posting and bespoke packaging – For other postal rates to more far flung locations please contact me.

Signet 567 1949 21st vg+ Price includes UK Posting and bespoke packaging – For other postal rates to more far flung locations please contact me.

Signet S 1608 1958 36th vg Price includes UK Posting and bespoke packaging – For other postal rates to more far flung locations please contact me.

Pyramid 1956 1st vg “Desire and decadence in the seething tropics” Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

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

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

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. 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.

Digit UK R389 Undated probably first vg+ “Illicit Love and Racial Hatred in the Depth of Africa Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

Pocket Book 1953 1st vg+ Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

Ace 1960 1st edition vg+ “1. The Arrest of a coloured man who is convicted by public opinion before his trial.” Price includes UK Posting – For other postal rates to more distant locations please contact me.

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. 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.

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. 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.