Bennett, Arnold

Riceyman steps.

Cassell & Company Ltd, 1945. Reprint. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with a name and date under the front foldover, in an unclipped dustjacket which is tanned at the spine and rubbed at the edges. 318 pages. Good in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67242

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Novel 1920s fiction British writers

Boyle, Kay

Year before last.

Virago, 1986. Reprint. Softcover. Clean, tightly bound paperback, spine uncreased, card covers rubbed at edges,pages age tanned, page edges lightly foxed, no inscriptions. 330 pages. Good.

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N° du livre: 57301

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: American Author

Burke, Thomas

In Chinatown: more stories of Limehouse nights.

Grant Richards Limited, 1921. First Edition Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with black titles, spine has been professionally rebacked, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions. 188 pages, 8 short stories. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 33804

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: East End London Thomas Burke

Chapman, Maristan

The happy mountain.

Philip Allan & Co. Ltd. 1929. First British Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in green cloth with black titles, cloth rubbed at edges, some scribble on front board, seller's stamp on front pastedown otherwise no inscriptions. 312 pages. Fair with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67527

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: American Fiction

Collier, John

His monkey wife: or, married to a chimp.

Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. New edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with silver-gilt titles, no inscriptions. 186 pages, foreword by Osbert Sitwell. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 63127

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Fantasy Modern Fiction

Edmond-About, Noele

The younger brother of Li-Tuan-Dinh.

Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1946. First English Edition. Hardcover. Very clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in a very tatty unclipped dustjacket - badly torn with loss at the rear panel & spine ends. Book itself appears little used. 188 page novel, set in the Far East, translated from the french by Constance Walter. No printed date, but Copac confirms 1946. Very Good in Poor dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 62798

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Far East

Hull, Helen

Heat lightning.

Leicester: Persephone Books Ltd, 2013. First Edition Thus. Softcover. Very clean, tightly bound paperback book with no inscriptions, in a bright unclipped dustjacket. Appears unread, publicity bookmark laid in. Persephone book no.101, reprinted in the Persephone classics series. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67908

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: American Fiction Women writers

Jackson, G. Gibbard

Arctic air terror.

Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in red cloth with black titles, cloth is bumped & rubbed at corners, spine sunned, neat gift inscription on the front endpaper. vi + 250 pages, photo frontispiece. No date but Copac gives 1938. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 54158

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Children's adventure stories Dog Sled

Moore, John

Clouds of glory.

J. M. Dent & Co. Ltd, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book, boards rubbed at edges with a mark on the back board, spine lightly sunned, no inscriptions, in a photocopied dustjacket which is a little creased at the edges. 256 pages + 8 pages of publisher's adverts. Very Good in Fair dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 67745

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Prewar Fiction Aviation John Moore Round the world

Moore, John

English comedy.

Worcester: John Moore Society, 2004. New edition. Hardcover. New, unread hardback with dustjacket. Limited edition of 400 copies, individually numbered and signed by both John Shakles, the chairman of the John Moore Society, and by Graham Downie, who provided the illustrations ; ; Signed by Illustrator. Fine in Fine dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 18088

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: John Moore Fiction English Countryside

Mundy, Talbot

Gup Bahadur.

Hutchinson, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Clean hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with black titles, cloth has minor rubbing at corners, fox-spotting to some pages, no inscriptions. 292 pages. No printed date, but this was never reprinted, so we are sure this is the 1929 first edition. Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 62977

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Science Fiction

Phillpotts, Eden

A deal with the devil.

Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd. 1928. New edition. Hardcover. Clean, small format hardback tightly bound in blue cloth with gilt titles, boards rubbed at edges, spine sunned, pages tanned. 224 pages. Fair with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 63327

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Rugg, W. H. J

Hope wins: a Devonshire tale.

Leicester: T. H. Tilley, 1905. First Edition. Hardcover. Very clean, tightly bound book. Inscription by author on the front endpaper. Slight colouring to endpapers and to the sides, though appears very little used. 132 pages, illustrated by plates. Uncommon. Very Good with no dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 28579

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Teignmouth Crimean War Devon

Shiraeff, Peter & Fremantle, Alfred (trans)

Taglioni's grandson.

Putnam, 1937. First British Edition. Hardcover. Clean & tightly bound hardback book with no inscriptions, in an unclipped dustjacket which is rubbed, water stain at spine. 292 pages. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

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N° du livre: 51410

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Horses & ponies Russia

Wallquist, Einar

Kan doktorn komma?.

Sweden: Albert Bonniers vorlag, 1954. New edition. Softcover. Clean, tightly bound paperback, spine creased, card covers rubbed at corners, but generally appears little used, no inscriptions. 230 pages. Text in Swedish. Good.

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N° du livre: 58295

Catalogue: Fiction:: Prewar

Mots-clés: Lapland doctor Sami tribe Swedish history