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Huddleston House

DENIS MACKAIL · 1945 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hutchinson. 1945, Reprint same year as first edition. Hardcover. Book, Spine worn, name on flyleaf; dustwrapper torn, parts of spine missing. "Life and character in a block of semi-luxury flats in wartime London". Good/Fair.

Stronger Than His Sea

ROBERT WATSON · 0 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Sampson Low, Marston & Co. 9999, Not Given. Hardcover. Book, Green cloth,faded and torn on spine; hinge weak; front board slightly cracked, page edges bit marked, library stamps, label inside back cover; text clean and sound. Scottish novel. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

The Devil's Jest

ELIZABETH CARFRAE · 1929 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Mills and Boon. 1929, Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Book, Green cloth, black lettering; worn on spine; internal hinges a little weak. Romantic-ish novel largely set in West Indies, dealing with racial prejudice. The hero is supposed to be irresistible to women, but it is ...

Prisoners of Silence

MARY ANGELA DICKENS · 1895 · Marion Pitman Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

London, Osgood, McIlvaine & Co. 1895, Not Known. Hardcover. Book, Rebound, possibly for circulating library, but no stamps or labels. Hinges weak, one page loose, thumbmarks, strip cut off top of half title. Novel by granddaughter of Charles Dickens. Fair/No Jacket.

This is the Road

KATHLEEN WALLACE · 1943 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, William Heinemann. 1943, First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library, Rebound in library binding; remains of label; flyleaf removed; stamps on title and last page, some spots of foxing. Novel set in China during second world war. Fairly Good.

The Marriage of Bright Virtue

KEITH WEST · 1947 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Cresset Press. 1947, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Orange cloth a bit discoloured. Short novel set in China. Good/No Jacket.

Little Dots, Forty-Seventh Annual Volume

NO AUTHOR GIVEN · 1933 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Little Dots. 1933, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Various. Book, Covers worn, spine largely missing; good deal of pencil scribbling; 6.25 x 8.75ins. Annual for little children. 188 pages + adverts; numerous illustrations, b/w and in shades of blue and red. Fair.

Logic and the Heart : Love Poems 1999-2003

A. F. HARROLD · 2004 · Marion Pitman Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

Reading, UK, Two Rivers Press. 2004, First Edition. (ISBN: 1901677389) Soft cover. Book, 71 pages, near fine condition. Very Good/No Jacket.

Ober Ammergau and Its Passion Play

EDITH MILNER · 1910 · Marion Pitman Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

York, Ben Johnson & Co. 9999, Second Edition. Hardcover. Book, Flyleaf missing, name on half-title, front board cracked, binding bit worn and grubby. No date (c.1910). Frontispiece Anton Lang. Fairly Good.

Sandman's Stories of Twinkle-Eyes

ABBIE PHILLIPS WALKER · 0 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Hamish Hamilton. 9999, No Stated. Hardcover. Ill.: Rhoda C. Chase. Book, Corners bruised, spine, lower edge back cover faded and wrinkled, marks on endpapers. B/w illustration on title page. Fairly Good/No Jacket.

Skeleton in the Clock

CARTER DICKSON · 1958 · Marion Pitman Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, Pan. 1958, First Thus. Soft cover. Book, Cover creased, loose and split at spine; page edges brown, some page corners creased, few small tears page edges; good reading copy. A Sir Henry Merrivale mystery. Fair.

The Birds of the Air - Parables of Loneliness and Unloneliness

DAVID DRAKE-BROCKMAN · 1982 · Marion Pitman Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

London & Tunbridge Wells, Search Press. 1982, First Edition. (ISBN: 0855324457) Hardcover. Book, Pages lightly creased; dustwrapper stained on inside, outside looks ok, except faded on spine. Birds furnish parables on the nature of human loneliness. Good/Good.

Look to Your Geese, a novel of the deflowering of New England

JACQUIN SANDERS · 1960 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Peter Davies. 1960, First UK Edition. Hardcover. Book, Red cloth a little worn, marks on cover and page edges. Rather odd novel, making no concessions to historical accuracy, with c17th puritans cutting the ears off Quakers, witches sabbaths, a dissolute nobleman, unli...

How the Old Woman Got Home

M. P. SHIEL [MATTHEW PHIPPS SHIEL] · 1961 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

New York, Collier Books. 1961, New Edition. Soft cover. Ex-Library, Edges worn, corners a little creased; front hinge taped; label inside front cover, withdrawn from British Science Fiction Association Library. Fantastical mystery adventure. Good/No Jacket.

Alias the Saint

LESLIE CHARTERIS · 1940 · Marion Pitman Books

£8.50 (€10.19 | $11.23 | ¥1,794)

London, Hodder & Stoughton. 1940, Tenth Edition. Hardcover. Book, Pale blue cloth, faded and worn; quite a bit of foxing; endpapers brown. Stories: The Story of a Dead Man; The Impossible Crime; The National Debt. Good/No Jacket.

The Last Abbot

A. F. WEBLING · 1947 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Leicester, Edmund Ward. 1947, Reprint. Hardcover. Ill.: A. Lankester. Book, Dark blue cloth, spine faded, front cover bit marked, cloth slightly bubbled next to spine, slight damage to edge of boards, slight spine lean; text very clean and sound. Frontispiece of Abbey of St. E...

Programme - Serenade, the Turn of the Screw, Rhapsody

ROYAL BALLET / SADLER'S WELLS / ROYAL OPERA HOUSE · 1999 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Royal Opera House. 1999, First Edition. Soft cover. Book, Very slight crease front cover. Colour and b/w illustrations, about 70 unnumbered pages. Very Good/No Jacket.

A Shorter Ego, Second Selection

JAMES AGATE · 1947 · Marion Pitman Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

London, Readers Union. 1947, Reprint. Hardcover. Book, Spine faded, front hinge cracking, covers slightly marked. Good/No Jacket.

Private Fires

KATHLEEN NOTT · 1960 · Marion Pitman Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Heinemann. 1960, First Edition. Hardcover. Book, Dustwrapper discoloured on spine, creased and a little worn at top edge. Novel set in South London. Very Good/Good.

Deeper the Heritage

MURIEL ELWOOD · 1700 · Marion Pitman Books

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

London, John Long. 9999, Fifth Impression. Hardcover. Book, Green cloth, bit worn, front hinge cracked. Novel set in Eastern Canada in the early 1700s. Fairly Good/No Jacket.