Fiction from Dodman Books

Oxford: A R Mowbray & Co, 1986. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. A vicar's supernatural tales, set in a lightly fictional North Norfolk. Stock a little toned but otherwise all in VG internal order. Card covers rather worn to edges and creased to rear. This is a charity sale… Read more about this item

London: Secker & Warburg, 1998. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK edition of Offutt's excellent novel. In VG+ order throughout. Very faint fading to spine. 8vo. 317pp

New York: Signet / The New American Library, 1966. Soft cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Good Wyndham Lewis collection, selected and introduced by Raymond Rosenthal. Former owner's name neatly opposite title page, otherwise all in VG internal order. Card covers a little creased and toned. 12mo. 461pp

London: Weidenfeld And Nicolson, 1975. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First UK hardback edition. Bar light dust spotting to top of block, in VG+, crisp, clean and bright order throughout. Smart red boards with bright gilt titling to spine. VG+ unclipped d/j. 8vo. 287pp

London: Collins, 1984. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The less common UK edition, published by Collins in its Crime Club series. Stock toned, but otherwise all in VG internal order. Smart red boards wit bright gilt titling to spine. Good unclipped d/j a little worn to edges and dulled to… Read more about this item

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. Stock toned and some minor abrasion to fep, but otherwise all is in VG internal order. Smart black boards with bright silver tilting to spine, however front board leads. Good clipped d/j, well worn to edges with some small loss and now n removable protective sleeve. 12mo. 236pp … Read more about this item

New York: Taplinger Publishing Co, 1967. 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Compilation of 13 supernatural stories, selected and introduced by Haining. Includes works by Mary Shelley, Mary Ann Evans, Mrs L T Meade, Mrs Henry Wood and others. All in VG, crisp, clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Brown boards… Read more about this item

London: Oxford University Press, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. ND, but publisher's catalogue bound to rear is dated 9/26. This is the less common leather bound/de luxe edition of this title in the long running World's Classics series, with gilt to top edge of block, blind embossed leather to front and… Read more about this item

London: Collins, 1948. Hardcover. Fair/Fair. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Interesting psychological novel of life and death from March Cost, aka Margaret Mackie Morrison. Surprisingly hard to find given numerous reprints, this copy being from the fourteenth impression. A little toning, occasional spotting and one page rather finger-marked, but otherwise all in good internal order. Purple… Read more about this item

Cardiff: Penmark Press, 1945. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Thirteen short stories offering "great variety, rural comedy and tragedy alternating with grim or pathetic stories of the industrial region of South Wales". Some foxing to edge of block, but this rarely intruding onto pages, which are clean and bright.… Read more about this item

London: A R Mowbray & Co, 1907. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Exceptionally scarce collection of four short stories from Margaret Ann Curtois, more so for being signed by her as a presentation copy to fep, dated Dec 4 1907. A well-regarded but non-prolific author, Curtois (1855-1932) covered various genres,… Read more about this item

London: Faber And Faber, 1968. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First impression of the first Booker Prize winner in VG, clean and bright internal order. Light dust spotting to top of block. No inscriptions. Smart orange cloth with crisp black titling to spine, lightly shelfworn. Rear board is… Read more about this item

London: Jonathan Cape, 1960. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Second Sgt Craig novel from Jefferies, offering "a crazy and corrupt world as seen through the eyes of an exceedingly clever and cynical young man". Very minor spotting to block edge, but otherwise all is clean and bright throughout. No… Read more about this item

London: Penguin Books, 2008. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. Exceptionally scarce promotional volume issued by Pengiun in 2008 to promote its stable of crime writers. Not for commercial sale. Includes extracts from 17 volumes in its current (2008) crime list. Described in the foreword by Michael Jospeh fiction publisher Mari Evans as a "limited… Read more about this item

London: Ward, Lock & Co, 1955. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Better known as a poet and historian, this is Conquest's first novel, a sci-fi treat set in 2007 and described as "a fast-moving story of conspiracy and love among the planets." Light toning to endpapers, but otherwise all… Read more about this item

London: David Stott, 1890. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Complete in three volumes, Fox's second novel was, like his first, originally published anonymously and is now exceptionally hard to find. This first edition set has had its bindings carefully repaired and re-sewn using the original boards and spine strips… Read more about this item

London: John Long, 1935. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Very Good. First edition, first printing of the fictional biography of The Scarlet Pimpernel, written under the pseudonym John Blakeney either by Baroness Orczy herself (who provides a forward taking the whole enterprise seriously) or by her son. Scarce in d/j, this copy is in good internal order, with spotting… Read more about this item

London: Stanley Paul And Co, 1948. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. ND. 1948 - WorldCat. "Even from beyond the grave, her husband's stony eyes turn her heart cold...Incredibly, Anthony proves to be a more resolute force in death than when he was alive. There is an eerie atmosphere in… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1950. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First UK edition, with Park's elegant signature tipped in to fep on deckle edged card. Second novel from the Antipodean author and, bar light toning to stock, in VG internal order throughout. Former owner's address embossed to fep. Smart black… Read more about this item

London: Putnam, 1936. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. First UK edition from February 1936, complete with E McKnight Kauffer designed jacket. Very light toning but in general book is in VG internal order. No inscriptions. Light shelfwear to smart green cloth with a little fading to spine. Good unclipped… Read more about this item