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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....

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.