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I WAS A TEENAGE SLASHER **PC COPY**

This is a Publisher’s Copy (PC) of the signed numbered limited edition hardback produced by SST with a stated first edition November 2024 and a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.    UNREAD.  The title was previously published by Titan in 2024.  Although the book states a publication date of 2024 it was not actually released until April 2025.

A PC copy is a bo....

THE OCCULTIST (Limited Edition Novella)

This is a first limited edition novella (115 pages).  Limited to 285 copies only.  Published without a dust jacket.  The book was printed in Italy on a fine 140 gm Italian rough ivory paper with 140 gm flamingo-coloured Sirio endpapers. The cover is a high quality Italian canvas with stamping on the front and spine in red.

Book #275 of 285.  UNREAD.

SYNOPSIS:  “MAX THÉ....

LEGACY OF DEATH

A first edition hardback with a stated  This First World Edition published 2020 in Great Britain.  The dust jacket is unpriced which is the norm now for Severn House books.  UNREAD.

A Matthew Rowsley Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “With his lordship’s mental health failing, management of his grand country estate has been assigned to a group of trustees, including land agent M....

IN AT THE DEATH

A first UK edition hardback with a stated first published in Great Britain and the USA in 2025.  Read once very carefully.   Unpriced dustjacket which is the norm now for Severn House books.

A Harriet and Matthew Rowsley Victorian Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “October 1861, England.  Harriet and Matthew Rowsley, the housekeeper and estate manager of Thorncroft House in Shropshir....

A SNAKE IN THE BARLEY

A first UK edition hardback with a stated First World Edition published in Great Britain and the USA in 2024.  Pictorial boards.  Unpriced dust jacket (which is the norm now for Severn House books).

Read once very carefully.

Book 15 in the Owen Archer Mystery series.

SYNOPSIS:  “York, 1377.  Owen Archer is determined to find his friend, taverner Tom Merchet, who h....

A BOOK OF RYHMES (Limited Edition)

This is a first UK limited edition hardback (500 copies only).  Published in association with The Bronte Society.  Beautiful boards.  Unread.

Introduction by Patti Smith and essays by Barbara Heritage and Henry Wessells.

SYNOPSIS:  “Charlotte Brontë wrote her miniature book of poems, A Book of Ryhmes, in 1829, when she was aged only thirteen. Dated 17th December 1829, the ....

BERSERK (Signed Numbered Limited)

A First signed numbered limited edition hardback (462 copies only).  Unread.  Stated First edition.  Price still on dust jacket.  Bought new at publication and stored carefully ever since.

Book #277 of 462.  SIGNED by Tim Lebbon on the limitation page.  Introduction by Edward Lee.

SYNOPSIS:  “Tom’s son died ten years ago… so they say. Killed in a military ....

GUILTY AS SIN

A first UK edition hardback with a stated This first world edition published 2015 in Great Britain.  Pictorial boards. Unpriced dustjacket which is the norm now for Severn House.  Some light tanning to pages.  UNREAD.

A Lina Townend mystery.

SYNOPSIS: “Driving across Dartmoor, Lina Townend finds two men robbing a medieval church. Outraged, she manages to stop them –....

PULP FIN DE SIECLE (Limited Edition)

This is a first limited edition hardback (75 copies only).  Purple Bearded Uncle is an imprint of Occult Press.  UNREAD.

Book #36 of 75.  Beautiful boards.

SYNOPSIS:  “Over the course of 24 hours, on a Spring day in Paris in 1893, seven archetypal figures of the  “Yellow Nineties” – a priest, a Symbolist, a dandy, an actress, a whore, a diabolist, and ....

SUGAR ON THE BONES (Signed Numbered Limited Edition)

A first UK signed numbered limited edition hardback (500 copies only) with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing and a stated First Edition April 2025.  The title was originally published in the US by Mulholland Books in 2024.  UNREAD.

Book #292 of 500.  SIGNED by Joe R Lansdale and Dirk Berger (artwork, including 7 full colour illustrations).

A Hap & L....

MANNERS & MISCHIEF

This is a UK edition hardback with a 2 to 10 number sequence indicating a second printing.  Price still on dust jacket.  Read once, very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “Whether offering tips on getting out of the bath with grace, or how to lose at cards with Princess Margaret, she shares wisdom and memory in equal measure.

This book is a love letter to a disappearing world and a r....

BEST OF BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION 2021 (Signed Numbered Limited)

This is a first signed numbered limited edition hardback (50 copies only) with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing and a stated First Edition August 2022.  Unread.  Price still on dust jacket.

Book #24 of 50.  SIGNED by Donna Scott on the limitation page.

SYNOPSIS:  “Once again editor Donna Scott has scoured magazines, anthologies, webzines and obs....

THE WATER BELLS (Limited Edition)

A first UK limited edition hardback (290 copies only).  Published without a dust jacket.  Beautiful endpapers.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “Fifteen tales comprising perhaps the most essential collection of the author’s works to date.

Charles’s stories inhabit a psycho-geographic hinterland quite unlike any other. An often unfathomable dread lurks at the heart of his ....

MISS BEETON’S MURDER AGENCY

A first UK edition hardback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.

Very tiny bump to head of book spine caused in transit.  The dust jacket is complete and still shows the price.  Some very light creasing to top edge of jacket and head of spine, caused in transit.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “A distant relative of the famous Mrs Be....

THE MYSTERIOUS MR BADMAN

This is a first printing of the British Library re-issue B format paperback (130 x 198 mm). Introduction by Martin Edwards. The title was originally published in 1934 by Pawling and Ness.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:   “On holiday in Keldstone visiting his nephew, Jim, blanket manufacturer Athelstan Digby agrees to look after the old bookshop on the ground floor os his l....

MURDER IN THE MAZE

This is an undated trade (larger-sized) paperback edition.  The title was first published in 1927.  Read once very carefully.

The first book in the Sir Clinton Driffield series.

SYNOPSIS:  “After both Roger and Neville Shandon are felled in Whistlefield’s famous hedge maze by curare-tipped darts, Sir Clinton (Driffield) arrives to restore order at this fractious cou....