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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : ALL FOR A DAME. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. First edition. Two gangsters fall out over Carol Marinska, she of the “pale, creamy complexion, the red full lips looking like an advert for a top-class line in lipstick”, “the big, soft, dreamy eyes”, and “her voice. Most of the talk about music in dames’ voices is hooey. Not the music in Carol Marinska’s”. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45233 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : BORN TO DIE [STRAIGHT-UP GIRL]. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. First edition under this title. Originally published as “Straight-Up Girl” in 1949 – “Maybe it would be nice and romantic and real story-book stuff if I could tell the world that Coral Follett was in a class by herself as far as looks and shape was concerned. Well, it’s just too bad, but as far as looks and shape went, Coral Follett was just another judy” – but she’s a straight-up girl and wants to save hoodlum Les Meaker from both himself and the police. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45365 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : SNATCHED. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. First edition. An army veteran on the brink of madness and despair cleans his rifle – and then he loads it. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46054 – or simply click on the button
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HOGES [i.e. HODGES], Carl G., 1902-1964 : CRIME ON MY HANDS. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. Second British edition. Comic book publisher killed and then a private eye’s partner murdered before he can testify against the mob and people in high places. Originally published in New York and by Comyns in the United Kingdom in 1951 – but here under Reginald Carter’s later Moring imprint. SOLD |
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : AVENGING NYMPH. London : Alexander Moring, (1958). First edition. Hank receives a tip-off – an old-fashioned duel at dawn in a park in Chicago – the girl in the flame-red frock “gently moistened her lips, almost as though her mouth was watering”. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29976 – or simply click on the button
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : HELL’S ANGEL. London : Alexander Moring, [1956]. First edition. Janson in Florida. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29985 – or simply click on the button
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : [SADIE, DON’T CRY NOW] DON’T CRY NOW. London : Alexander Moring, [1957]. First edition under this title of the work originally published in 1952 by the New Fiction Press as “Sadie, Don’t Cry Now”. The pose – the long gloves, the cigarette, and the glass of champagne of the original Reginald Heade artwork remain, although much re-worked. The not-so-dumb blonde turns the tables. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29951 – or simply click on the button
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : [SILKEN MENACE] SILKEN SNARE. London : Alexander Moring, (1959). First edition under this title of a work originally published as “Silken Menace” by Top Fiction Press in 1953. The original artwork by Reginald Heade has been reworked – the hair less abandoned, but the gown now strapless. SOLD |
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : SUGAR AND VICE. London : Alexander Moring, (1958). First edition. A newspaper stunt brings together some old-time bootleggers. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29947 – or simply click on the button
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : SWEET FURY. London : Alexander Moring, [1957]. First edition. Janson back at the Chicago Chronicle newsdesk – but disillusioned and at a low ebb. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29984 – or simply click on the button
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“JANSON, Hank” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : [SWEETHEART, HERE’S YOUR GRAVE] SITUATION – GRAVE! London : Alexander Moring, (1958). First edition under this title. Made and printed in France under the Moring imprint, but originally published by Frances in 1949 as “Sweetheart, Here’s Your Grave!” – an early Janson, set in Hollywood – the action switching from studio to marijuana den, and with intimations of the making of a snuff movie. SOLD |
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“SHANE, Mark” – [NORWOOD, Victor (Victor George Charles), 1920-1983] : JAIL & FAREWELL. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. [Second edition]. Red Miller, reformed con-man turned private eye, witnesses an old pal fall to his death in a police siege. In a secret pocket inside the dead man’s shirt is a book – “I had more than a vague idea that the book was old, very old – and maybe valuable”. Bookseller gets murdered. Some other “guys claimed to be antiquarian booksellers, but didn’t know Aristotle from a hole in the ground”. Originally published in 1953 under Reg Carter’s earlier Comyns imprint, but here under the Moring imprint he acquired on his release from prison in 1955. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43123 – or simply click on the button
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“SHANE, Mark” – [NORWOOD, Victor (Victor George Charles), 1920-1983] : THEY KILL TO LIVE. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. [Second edition]. “It’s close to sundown, and way ahead lights are winking up along the sprawling sucker-trap that is the Hellfire Strip, wide open merry-go-round of the good-time dolls and the sugar-daddies ...” – a pacy tale set in Las Vegas. Originally published under Reginald Carter’s earlier Comyns imprint in 1953. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45933 – or simply click on the button
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