London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1971. First UK edition. Publisher's red cloth. In an unclipped dust jacket. 192 pages. 205 x 140 mm (8 x 5½ inches). Both book and dust jacket in a very good / near fine condition. The preceding books are: 'A Family Affair' and 'Death at the Chase', in which Bobby Appleby played only a minor part. This time he does most of the detecting; and even finds the corpse!

London: G.P. Putnam's, 1912. Scarce First Edition in dust wrapper. Signed to the front end paper by the author, and dated April 1914. Olive green wrapper with coloured vignette to the front of the wrapper, adverts for Putnam fiction to the rear. The author's first novel.
Wrapper is clean, but with a little chipping to the edges, and with a touch of loss to the head and tail of the spine. The boards of the book are spotless, with just a touch of bumping to the edges. Internally clean and tidy, with a little foxing to the end papers. 376, iv pages. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).

London: Smith, Elder / Chapman & Hall, 1850. Two First editions, bound together in a contemporary full leather binding. All edges gilt. Both by Titmarsh, a pseudonym for Thackeray. The 15 full page illustrations to the Kicklebury's are unsigned, the 8 plates in Rebecca & Rowena are attributed to Richard Doyle. These were two of the 'Christmas books' written by Thackeray. Clean full leather binding. A touch of rubbing. Spine is somewhat dulled. Internally clean, binding is firm but slightly shaken. 88, viii, 102 pages. 185 by 140mm (7¼ by 5½ inches).

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1892. First edition. Illustrated with 18 etchings by William Hole. Limited edition. This copy is 450/550. By the creator of Peter Pan. Original blue cloth with gilt titles. Very nice clean copy with almost no bumping or edgewear. Internally spotless, with a foxing to the end papers only. xiv, 217 pp. 270 x 190 mm (10¾ x 7½ inches).

This copy was owned by Mrs Van der Poorten Schwartz - the wife of Dutch author Maarten Maartens. Almost certainly given to her by William Robertson Nicoll, who wrote anecdotes of 19th Century Literary history with T.J. Wise, and edited 'The Expositor' for Hodder & Stoughton.

London: William Heinemann, 1912. First edition. 8vo. Original tan card wrappers, titles to spine and upper cover in brown. Slight creasing to spine and minor chip to bottom edge. Separation to bottom inch of front cover. Slight foxing to the cover and title page. The rest of the book is clean. [vi], 214 pp. 180 x 130 mm (7 x 5 inches).

London: Gollancz, 2003. Very nice copy of this first edition, signed and dated) by the author to the title page. Spotless cloth. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, now held in archival protection. 240 by 160mm (9½ by 6¼ inches). 421 pages

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005. Very nice copy of this first edition, signed and dated) by the author to the title page. Spotless cloth. Clean and tidy dust wrapper, now held in archival protection. 230 by 140mm (9 by 5½ inches). 309 pages.

London: Collins, 1956. First Edition; signed by the author, in its original dust jacket. Very good book, in green cloth. Simply signed by the author to the title page. Dust jacket unclipped with price shown as 12s. 6d - but the head and tail of spine are chipped, and lesser so to corners. Now in removable clear protective wrapping. Owner name to the front endpaper. Lightly age-toned pages. One or two small spots to prelims. 256 pp. 210 x 140 mm (8¼ x 5½ inches).

Ralph Hammond Innes CBE, was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as children's and travel books.

London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946. First edition, in second impression dust jacket (as is often stated). Bound in red cloth, Wartime economy paper. 438 pp. 220 x 140 mm (8¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1929. First edition. Bound in rust / orange cloth, and in its original dust jacket. The book cloth is looking a little faded. The dust jacket is age-toned, and has some very minor chipping to top and bottom of spine. Internally, the book has virtually no foxing. A very good copy. 288 pages. 190 x 130 mm (7½ x 5 inches).

Louis Marlow was the pseudonym for Louis Umfreville Wilkinson, a British author, lecturer and biographer.

At the time, The Observer's reviewer thought this story, turning on the protagonist's self-imposed celibacy, was an inadequate vehicle for the book's more serious injunctions against warmongers and literary censorship.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1992. First edition. Signed by the author to the title page. Clean and tidy dust wrapper. White is still bright! Book itself is clean and tidy. A little darkening to the pages only. Neatly signed. 330 pages.
240 x 160 mm (9½ x 6¼ inches).

Manchester / Plumstead, South Africa: Carcanet Press / Snailpress, 1995. Signed by the author to the title page. First edition. Original softback. Poetry. As new condition. 64 pages. 215 by 135mm (8½ by 5¼ inches).

London: Cassell and Company Ltd, 1899. First edition. Red cloth cover with gilt title to spine. Top edge gilt. The story of a Cornish childhood. Cloth on spine is slightly sun faded. Foxing throughout. 312 pp. 200 x 140 mm (7¾ x 5½ inches).

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1950. Reprint, in original illustrated dust jacket. 256 pp. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).

London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1952. Reprint, in original illustrated dust jacket. Toning to endpapers, otherwise in a very good condition. 288 pp. 190 by 130 mm (7½ by 5 inches).

London: The Medici Society, 1929. First Edition. Octavo. Original cream dust wrapper, with red decoration to the front cover. There was a limited presentation edition in 1910. This was the first trade edition. Printed at the Curwen Press. 256 pages. 215 x 140 mm (8½ x 5½ inches). Dust wrapper has a tiny amount of nicking to the head and tail of the spine. A couple of spots / marking to the cream, otherwise in very good condition. Dust wrapper is neatly clipped. Clean and tidy pale cloth. Internally very nice condition throughout.