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EVE'S ISLAND (The Island of Galloping Gold).

Wallace, Edgar, · 1929

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

C. A. Ransom, London, ND (c1929), paperback (trade paperback size), 128pp, col'd pictorial wrappers (unattrib), side stitched binding, wrapper price 6d., rubbed at extrems. with loss to tail of spine and edges of wrappers, (restored), spine relined, wrappers a little dull and...

WHITE FACE.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1966, revised edition, paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., #396, unattrib. pictorial wrappers, printing dated 1966 but revision oddly copyright 1967, sl. spine slant, a little rubbed at extrems., light creasing to wrappers, old ink price upper cnr. upper...

THE RINGER (originally published as The Gaunt Stranger).

Wallace, Edgar, · 1950

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1950, 2nd printing, paperback, 224pp, #42, pictorial wrappers, rubbed at extrems., sl. flaking at edges of spine, spine relined, light creasing and soiling to wrappers, edges browned, lacks half title, nick in fore-edge title, paper tanned, good,

THE MAN AT THE CARLTON.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1963

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1963, 1st in imprint, paperback, 191pp, [i] ads., #G623, unattrib. pictorial wrappers, v. sl. spine roll, well rubbed at extrems. with sl. flaking at spine, light creasing to wraps., small biro mark on title upper wrapper and to edges, remains of label uppe...

THE JOKER.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1950

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1950, 1st in imprint, paperback, 192pp, #140, unattributed pictorial wrappers, rubbed at extrems. with sl. loss at spine ends, spine relined, light creasing to wrappers and cnrs. inclined to curl, neatly repaired edge tear fore-edge upper wrapper, edges bro...

THE COUNCIL OF JUSTICE.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1963

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Digit Books, London, 1963, 1st in imprint, paperback, 160pp, #R751, unattrib. pictorial wrappers, a story of the Four Just Men, spine rolled, lightly rubbed at extrems., sl. flaking at spine edges, some creasing to wrappers and numerous light creases at hinges, edges tanned, ...

THE CLUE OF THE SILVER KEY.

Wallace, Edgar, · 1967

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1967, 1st edn. thus, paperback, revised edition, 187pp [v] ads., #X611, unattrib decorated wrappers, text revised, lightly rubbed at tips, spine sunned, edges tanned, very good plus,

REQUIEM FOR A WREN.

Shute, Nevil, · 1971

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1971, 1st in imprint, paperback, 253pp, [iii] ads., pictorial wrappers, a story of a Wren on armament duties for the impending invasion of 1944, her fiancee on mine clearance duties of the proposed invasion beaches and his brother, an RAF pilot.sl. spine sl...

PASTORAL.

Shute, Nevil, · 1965

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1965, 2nd imp., paperback, 239pp, pictorial wrappers, a wartime love story with a background of the RAF and rural England, very sl. slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, very good,

NO HIGHWAY.

Shute, Nevil, · 1963

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1963, 1st in imprint, paperback, 281pp, [vii] ads., #X224, pictorial wrappers, a suspense novel of aircraft and metal fatigue, using all the author's expertise in story telling and the aircraft industry, slight spine slant, rubbed at extrems., light marks u...

LONELY ROAD.

Shute, Nevil, · 1977

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Ballantine Books, New York, 1977, paperback, 221pp, pictorial montage wrappers, edges coloured, a story of gun running and an attempt to rig a general election of 1930's Britain, slight spine slant, faint vertical creasing to spine, crease at upper hinge, a little rubbed at e...

LONELY ROAD.

Shute, Nevil, · 1970

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1970, paperback, 221pp, pictorial wrappers, a story of gun running and an attempt to rig a general election of 1930's Britain, slant and sl. roll to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., edges tanned, good,

BEYOND THE BLACK STUMP.

Shute, Nevil, · 1972

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1972, 1st in imprint, paperback, 271pp, pictorial wrappers (unattrib), the clash of cultures of oil drilling and sheep farming in Australia, sl. slant to spine, lightly rubbed at extrems., spine almost totally bleached, light creasing to wrappers, edges tan...

A TOWN LIKE ALICE.

Shute, Nevil, · 1966

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Pan Books, London, 1966, paperback, 315pp, unattrib pictorial wrappers, the novel of the experiences of a man and a woman, separately prisoners of the Japanese invasion of Burma, and their attempt to find each other again after the war, slight slant to spine with faint vertic...

HITLER'S FORTRESS ISLANDS.

Toms, Carel, · 1978

£7.20 (€8.63 | $9.51 | ¥1,519)

New English Library, London, 1978, 1st edn. in hardback, 160pp, numerous half tone ills. in text throughout, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorated lettered dustwrapper, previously issued in paperback this is the first hardback edition, an account of the occupation ...

CASSINO - Portrait of a Battle.

Majdalany, Fred, · 1957

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Longmans Green, London, 1957, 2nd imp., 270pp, 12pp half tone photo ills., 1 folding panorama, 8 maps in text, dark blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, the major stumbling block to the Allied advance on Rome was Cassino, the fulcrum of the German defensive Gustav Line. This...

PRENDER'S PROGRESS - A Soldier in India 1931-47.

Prendergast, John, · 1979

£8.90 (€10.67 | $11.76 | ¥1,878)

Cassell, London, 1979, 1st edn., 256pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., ochre cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper, memoirs of a British officer in the Indian Army, including his service of the North-West Frontier and his WW2 exper...

AS THE SUN SHINES.

Williamson, Henry, · 1941

£5.50 (€6.59 | $7.27 | ¥1,160)

Faber and Faber, London, 1941, 1st edn., 160pp, lemon yellow cloth lettered in maroon at spine and upper bd., lower edge uncut, plain lettered dustwrapper, anthology of extracts from previously published works., lightly bumped and rubbed at extrems., lower edge upper bd. sl. ...

THE NIGHT BLITZ 1940-1941.

Ray, John, · 1996

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,582)

Arms and Armour Press, London, ND (copyright 1996), 1st edn., 288pp, 8pp half tone photo ills., line plans in text, dark blue cloth cloth lettered in gilt at spine, col'd pictorial dustwrapper by Peter Farnworth, a study of the strategy and tactics of bombing, pre-war plannin...

BACKS TO THE WALL - London under Fire 1939-45.

Mosley, Leonard, · 1972

£6.30 (€7.55 | $8.32 | ¥1,329)

Victorian (and Modern History) Book Club, Newton Abbot, 1972, club edn., 397pp, 24pp half tone photo ills., pale ochre cloth grain paper covered bds. lettered in gilt at spine, photo pictorial dustwrapper, using some of the Mass-Observation reports and the experiences of some...