 | The Return of Sherlock Holmes - A.Conan Doyle
Condittion Very Good
First edition in book form
Published by George Newnes, London 1905
Illustrated by Sidney Paget
403pp covering thirteen stories.
16 full page plates in monotone
Price: £795.00 / $1,192.50
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|  | The Gay Galliard, the Love Story of Mary Queen of Scots - Margaret Irwin
Condition Very Good
Published by Chatto and Windus, London
First edition, first impression 1941
Three feminine fates helped spin the threads against Mary and Bothwell - her former mother-in-law, Catherine de Medici; her cousin Elizabeth of England; and Anna Throndsen, the Norwegian mistress whom Bothwell had abandoned.
424pp
# 20500s98
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Price: £10.00 / $15.00
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|  | The Impregnable Women - Eric Linklater, signed copy
Condition Very Good with Good+ dustjacket.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London
First edition, first impression 1938
The time is the 1940s. The Next Great War begins. The war lasts a year and the women are robbed of husbands, sweethearts and sons........ This is an Aristophanic comedy, and takes some Aristophanic liberties.
# 20513
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Price: £45.00 / $67.50
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 | Enchanter's Nightshade - Ann Bridge, signed copy
Condition Very Good with a Good+ dustjacket
Published by Chatto & Windus, London
First edition, first impression 1937
A period pieces of Italian provincial society thirty years earlier at the beginning of the 20th century.
397pp
Signed to the title page
# 20509
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Price: £85.00 / $127.50
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|  | They Walk in the City, the Lovers in the Stone Forest - J.B.Priestley
Condition Near Fine with a Very Good+ Dustjacket
Published by Heinemann, London
First edition, second impression 1936
515pp.
# 20470sC6
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Price: £24.00 / $36.00
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|  | The Jury, a novel by Gerald Bullett
Condition Very Good and with dustjacket.
Published by J.M.Dent, London
First edition, first impression 1935
464pp.
The story of a murder trial, the theme of which is the contrast between the tiny, ordinary events of daily life and the fierce, unreal light of sudden violent action.
# 20469sC6
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Price: £14.00 / $21.00
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 | Murder Too Late, a Patrick Dawlish thriller - Gordon Ashe
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket Fair to good
Published by John Long, London 1947
208pp
Patrick Dawlish with his charming wife, Felicity, in an entertaining story of jewel thieves and murder in Surrey.
# 18507s9
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Price: £18.00 / $27.00
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|  | Dark Interlude - Peter Cheyney
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket Good
Published by Collins, London 1947
192pp
Written before the Nuremburg trials, Cheyney foresaw the beginnings of the Nazi post-war Secret Societies, and their efforts to wreak some sort of revenge on their wartime opposite numbers.
# 18503s9
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|  | Death of an Intruder, a tale of horror in three parts - Nedra Tyre
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket lightly soiled
Published by Collins, London 1954
191pp
# 18506
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Price: £14.00 / $21.00
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 | It Never Rains, a thriller - Victor Bridges
Condition Very Good
Dustjacket Good
Published by Macdonald & Co. London 1945
Second impression
190pp
A fast moving thriller, full of action and exitment.
# 18508s9
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Price: £12.00 / $18.00
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|  | The Golden Orchid - Gerald Sparrow
Condition Very Good
Published by the Adventurers Club, London 1964
Between December 1941 and September 1945 the Japanese Imperial Army ruled six hundred million people from Peking to Djarkarta by terror and torture. The Japanese, with grim humour, called this vast area the 'Co-Prosperity Sphere'. A novel set in Siam based on a true story.
208pp. Jacket design by Biro
# 18389s4
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Price: £10.00 / $15.00
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|  | The Enchantress of Florence - Salman Rushdie, authors inscribed and signed copy
The story of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world. It brings together two cities that barely know each other - the hedonistic capital of the Grand Mughal, the Emperor Akbar and the equally sensual Florentine world of powerful courtesans, humanist philosophy and inhuman torture.
Published by Jonathan Cape, London, 2008
Signed by the author to the title page.
ISBN 9780224061636
# 17889
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Price: £25.00 / $37.50
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 | Winter in Madrid - C.J.Sansom, authors signed and dated copy 20.11.06
1940: the Spanish Civil War is over and Madrid lies ruined, its people starving, while the Germans continue their relentless march through Europe. And as Britain stands alone, General Franco considers whether to abandon neutrality and enter the war. A compelling novel and a haunting depiction of wartime Spain.
Published by Macmillan, London, 2006
First edition
ISBN 1405005467
# 18003
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Price: £80.00 / $120.00
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