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D IS FOR DEATH

This is a first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a single #1 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “Meet Dora Wildwood:  runaway, book lover, and aspiring detective.  ‘That’s the beauty of libraries, you see – everything is laid out perfectly sensibly.  There is a pattern.  A is for, oh, I ....

WHO KILLED THE CURATE?

This is a B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback.  The title was first published in 1944.  This edition was published in 2023 and this is a 3rd printing of that edition.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “Lady Lupin Lorimer Hastings is the young, lovely, scatter-brained and kind-hearted wife of Andrew, the vicar of St Mark’s parish in Glanville, Sussex.

When, on Christmas Eve, Andrew....

CRUCIFAX

A first UK edition paperback. Appears unread.

Some very slight signs of wear to the cover edges.  NO reading creases to spine.   Heavy age tanning to pages making them rather brown but still eminently readable.  There is a faint red pen mark across the top edge of the pages not affecting page faces.  There is a small section of pages which are darker than all the rest of the pages (....

THE SECRET CHRISTMAS LIBRARY

This is a UK edition hardback with a single #2 as the number sequence indicating a second printing.  Price still on dust jacket.

Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:  “Step into a world where ancient books are lost in grand old Scottish houses. Where a secret night train whisks Mirren out of her ordinary life and off to the highlands on an unexpected quest.

As a sno....

BLOOD IN THE BRICKS (Signed Numbered Limited)

A first UK signed numbered limited edition hardback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing and a stated published October 2025.  Limited to 75 copies only.  UNREAD.

Book #32 of 75.

SIGNED by all contributors plus Neil Williamson (Editor) and Vincent Chong (artwork)

SYNOPSIS:  “Tales of the city redolent with ritual and drenched in dread.

THE TWO-TIMERS

A first UK edition hardback.

Bumped at head and tail of book spine and at three of the four corners of the boards.  Some slight foxing to leading edges. Previous owner’s name written on the pastedown.

The dust jacket is complete, still shows the price,  but has had a hard life.  It is showing signs of wear generally and the edges are rubbed/creased.  It is extremely grub....

READY FOR ABSOLUTELY NOTHING (Exclusive Signed Edition)

A first UK edition hardback with 001 as the number sequence indicating a first printing.  Stated First Edition.  Price still on dust jacket.

Read once very carefully.

Waterstones Exclusive Edition.  SIGNED by Susannah Constantine on the Signature page.

SYNOPSIS:  “If you think you known Susannah Constantine you may be surprised to learn the truth.  Hers is a tale....

THE ART OF DISCWORLD

A first UK edition magazine-sized illustrated paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Comes complete with the publisher’s publicity handout.  Illustrations by Paul Kidby.

The covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.  Light crease across the bottom right-hand corner of the front cover.

SYNOPSIS:  “Terry Pra....

SOMEONE FROM THE PAST

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 1958 by Eyre & Spottiswoode.  Read once very carefully.

SYNOPSIS:   “Sarah has been receiving threatening anonymous letters, seemingly from a former lover.  Just one day after revealing this information to her co-w....

A LOAD OF OLD BOSH

This is a first UK edition trade-paperback sized booklet (148 x 210mm) with card covers.  Comes complete with the publisher’s review slip.

Described as very good only because the bottom corner of the booklet has been bent  – possibly in transit – so the covers and all the pages have a diagonal crease across them.

SYNOPSIS:  “The booklet was produced for ....

CARNACKI Supernatural Detective and Others

This is a US trade paperback edition originally published in 2009, however, this is a later, undated reprint printed in the UK.

Covers are showing some slight signs of wear to the extremities.  Light diagonal crease across the top left-hand corner of the rear cover.  Small chip at the head of the spine.

SYNOPSIS:  “A collection of short stories:  Carnacki, Supernatural D....

A MANSION FOR MURDER

A first UK edition B format (130 x 198 mm) paperback with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing.  Read once very carefully.

A Kate Shackleton Mystery.

SYNOPSIS:  “1930, Yorkshire.  Intrigued by a mysterious letter from a stranger offering important information, Private Investigator, Kate Shackleton arrives in the mill village of Saltaire.  At nearby ....

THE SILENT HOUSE and Other Strange Stories (Limited Edition)

A first UK limited edition hardback limited to 300 copies only.  Beautiful boards.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “Sophia J. Unsworth is an assured new voice in contemporary strange and supernatural fiction, and this debut collection marks the arrival of a new literary talent.

Drawing on elements of the weird, the uncanny, and the psychological, Unsworth offers unsettling narratives....

THE SILENT HOUSE and Other Strange Stories (Limited Edition)

A first UK limited edition hardback limited to 300 copies only.  Beautiful boards.  Unread.

SYNOPSIS:  “Sophia J. Unsworth is an assured new voice in contemporary strange and supernatural fiction, and this debut collection marks the arrival of a new literary talent.

Drawing on elements of the weird, the uncanny, and the psychological, Unsworth offers unsettling narratives....

THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD (Novella)

A first UK signed numbered limited edition hardback novella (50 copies only) with a full 1 to 10 number sequence indicating a first printing and a stated first published October 2025.  Unread.

Book #16 of 50.  SIGNED by Simon Morden on the limitation page.

A follow-up to the critically acclaimed novella  At the Speed of Light.

SYNOPSIS:  “Corbyn, a sentient ramshi....

MRS PARGETER’S PAST

A first UK edition hardback with a stated First world edition published in Great Britain and the USA in 2025 by Severn House.

Price still on dust jacket.  Pictorial boards.  UNREAD.

SYNOPSIS:  “Mrs Pargeter’s friends know two important details about her marriage to her late husband.  First, that it was blissfully happy.  And second, that Mr Pargeter was not a man ....