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“ANGELO, Tony” – [WEBB, Thomas Charles Packham, 1908-1973] : SATAN’S SISTER. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1951]. First edition. Born Hetty Goetz in an East Side Chicago tenement, Gloria de Haarden – a “little carrot-topped Venus, with arms” – has big ideas. “She dreams of mink coatees, oyster-fruit, ice, and Lincoln landaus. Penthouses. And men; rich, handsome types”. SOLD |
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CUNNINGHAM, Louis Arthur, 1900-1954 : SULTRY LOVE. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. News comes to Canada of Jeremy’s marriage in wartime London – passions erupt in those left behind. A tale from one of Atlantic Canada’s most prolific writers. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30875 – or simply click on the button
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“DU MONTESSE, Ruy” : PASSIONATE PURITAN. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1948]. [Second edition]. The tall, slender and blonde Lady Cynthia Collingwoode-Hepway goes husband hunting in Mayfair: elsewhere in London two other women from very different walks of life go home from work. Their worlds are about to collide. First published by Gerald G. Swan in 1941. The lower wrapper proclaims this to be the first book issued by the Archer Press: it is certainly far better written than most of their subsequent ouput. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30641 – or simply click on the button
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“FLAMMÊCHE, Pierre” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : WHEN PASSION RULES. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. Sylvia is abandoned for Elsie, Battersea for Knightsbridge – “I am going to the woman who is not so straight-laced, who will give herself to me whether I marry her or not – And maybe her money is more important than her body! – Goodbye”! The author’s pseudonym is mis-spelt “Flannêche” on the title-page. SOLD |
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GOODCHILD, George, 1888-1969 : THE ETERNAL CONFLICT. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. [Second edition]. The Dudeneys need to find a rich husband for their extravagant daughter. First published under Goodchild’s “Jesse Templeton” pseudonym in 1925. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30642 – or simply click on the button
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HORLER, Sydney, 1888-1954 : VIRUS X : A PAUL VIVANTI STORY. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1950). [Second edition]. Paul Vivanti, the worst man in the world, “the most dangerous enemy the British Intelligence Departments had perhaps ever known”. Originally published in hardback in 1945. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30148 – or simply click on the button
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“MORELLI, Spike” – [NEWTON, William (William Simpson), 1923-2009] : COFFIN FOR A CUTIE. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1950). First edition. “Sam Case was brought up in a swamp cabin in Georgia. He was a rough kid who was used to finding things out for himself. This is the story of how he found out plenty”. Typical post-war pulp fare from the Archer Press stable, with William Newton under one of his various pseudonyms, and a delicious Reginald Heade cover. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30635 – or simply click on the button
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“MORELLI, Spike” – [NEWTON, William (William Simpson), 1923-2009] : COFFIN FOR A CUTIE. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1950). First edition. “Sam Case was brought up in a swamp cabin in Georgia. He was a rough kid who was used to finding things out for himself. This is the story of how he found out plenty”. Typical post-war pulp fare from the Archer Press stable, with William Newton under one of his various pseudonyms, and a delicious Reginald Heade cover. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29979 – or simply click on the button
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“RÉNIN, Paul” – [GOYNE, Richard, 1902-1957] : MIDNIGHT. London : Archer Press, [1952]. [Fourth edition]. Rich American woman starts to fascinate a rising young barrister – his wife is aghast. Originally published in 1928. SOLD |
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“ROSS, Gene” – [NEWTON, William (William Simpson), 1923-2009] : TWO SMART DAMES. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1949). First edition. Private-eye Shaun O’Malley’s partner gets killed. Enter Elvira, “a girl with a nice figure, a nasty mind, and a husband too fond of the booze” – but Louisa’s pretty smart too. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32767 – or simply click on the button
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“ROSS, Gene” – [NEWTON, William (William Simpson), 1923-2009] : “LADY, THROW ME A CURVE”. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. The beautiful Carole comes calling on private-eye Shaun O’Malley. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32881 – or simply click on the button
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE A VIRGIN. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. A Nick Cranley tale – Nick waits for a redhead and is mistakenly given a large envelope. SOLD |
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE BEAUTIFUL. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1949). First edition. Mrs Cranley has become suspicious. SOLD |
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : MAKE MINE DANGEROUS. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1950]. First edition. Nick Cranley hunts down a boyfriend for ten dollars a day and a few stolen moments – “beautiful dames and ugly corpses”. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30701 – or simply click on the button
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : SATAN BUYS A WREATH. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1951]. First edition. “The steady mumble jumble of the speeding train vibrates every nerve in my noggin just as if some wise-guy had shoved a juke-box down my earhole ... All that unfaithfulness had brought me to the bottle”. A Nick Cranley tale. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45658 – or simply click on the button
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“STORME, Michael” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : UNLUCKY VIRGIN. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1949). First edition. Mary Glyn doesn’t want to live in Wyoming, so John goes ranching alone – she is determined to wait on his return – then her flighty pal Ann turns up. SOLD |
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“VANE, Roland” – [McKEAG, Ernest Lionel, 1896-1974] : NIGHT HAUNTS OF PARIS. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1949]. Second edition of an early Vane, first published in 1926. “The most daring exposure ever written of the world’s wickedest city” – the lure of Montmartre, among the Apaches, black women and white men, gambling dens, tempting English girlhood, and more. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 33522 – or simply click on the button
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“VANE, Roland” – [McKEAG, Ernest Lionel, 1896-1974] : SIN STAINED. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, (1950). First edition. “After what you have done to me ... kill me!” is the teaser tag on the cover – a torrid tale of girlish indiscretion, marital disillusion, passion and deceit. “The wages of sin are sometimes even worse than death” sententiously adds the back cover. Somewhat incongruously set in a respectable London suburb – Wimbledon, I think, from memory (McKeag was living in Clapham at the time) – but this versatile author in top form, abetted by a sensational cover-design by Reginald Heade (1901-1957), finest of all the pulp-artists – and one of his very best. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43896 – or simply click on the button
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“VINCENT, Slim” : DAMES ARE NO DICE. Stoke-on-Trent : Archer Press, [1951]. First edition. Slim is offered a job in a gambling club. “He made with the words like as if he had been dragged up to spout from an Episcopalian pulpit ...”. SOLD |
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