BRAB – BRITISH PULP FICTION AT ASH RARE BOOKS
![]() | BRAB – BRITISH PULP FICTION AT
|
BRAB – BRITISH PULP FICTION | |
CLICK ON REFRESH/RELOAD TO ENSURE YOU HAVE THE UPDATED VERSION OF THIS PAGE | |
![]() |
“AMBLER, Dail” – [WILLIAMS, Betty Mabel Lilian, 1919-1974] : THE LADY SAYS WHEN : A DANNY SPADE STORY. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. Among the most glamorous, unexpected and toughest of the stable of pulp-fiction writers who wrote for Scion was Betty Williams, also known by her married name of Betty Uelmen, who under her “Dail Ambler” and “Danny Spade” personas, became one of the most successful of all of the British pulp-writers. With some experience of Hollywood, she later found some notoriety for the storyline and screenplay of perhaps the most interesting of the British teen rebellion, beatnik and coffee-bar movies, released in 1960 as “Beat Girl” in the UK and “Wild for Kicks” in the USA, and starring Adam Faith, David Farrar, Shirley Anne Field, Gillian Hills, Christopher Lee, Peter McEnery, Oliver Reed, etc. SOLD |
![]() |
“BRYONY, June” : ENCHANTED LOVE. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1948]. First edition. Stranger in town wants to paint the pretty girl with the flaxen hair and the beautiful fingers who works behind the food counter on the High Street. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45212 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
“BRYONY, June” : GLORIOUS ROMANCE. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1949]. First edition. Marguerite de Manell comes of age: she owns a great historic castle, but can’t afford to – she is living in a poky bed-sit and working as a shorthand typist. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 42581 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
“BRYONY, June” : GLORIOUS ROMANCE. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1949]. First edition. Marguerite de Manell comes of age: she owns a great historic castle, but can’t afford to – she is living in a poky bed-sit and working as a shorthand typist. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45214 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
“BRYONY, June” : LOVE’S DILEMMA. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1949]. First edition. The lovely Mavis Denton scores a notable success in the factory’s amateur theatricals – onwards to a screen test, but also moral danger. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45213 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
“CHASE, James Hadley” – [RAYMOND, René Brabazon, 1906-1985] : THE FAST BUCK. London : Robert Hale, (1954). First paperback edition. Only the jewel-thief knows where the loot is – how to spring him from jail. First published in 1952. £10 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41965 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
DENNIS, D.T. : ROMANTIC ECSTASY. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1949]. First edition. Wealthy playboy flies into London Airport after a year spent proving his worth in the mines of Africa – but Norma is still not impressed. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45216 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
HADLEY PUBLICATIONS : GAIETÉ. London : Hadley Publications, [ca. 1950]. First edition. “Calling all wolves!” – seven Parisian stories, ostensibly by Celeste Chamard, Henri Jacquet, Pierre Guichon, Alix Breziab, Estelle Pichet, Adele d’Arcy and Blanche Loubier. SOLD |
![]() |
MAURICE HALL PUBLICATIONS : HUG : A CARESS MAGAZINE. New York, Los Angeles & London : Maurice Hall Publications, [ca. 1950]. First edition. Stories from Robert Kingston (2), Anne Frazer, Janice Temple, Lester Kearns and Frederick Foden. The New York and Los Angeles of the imprint appear to represent wishful thinking. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 31843 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
[HARDINGE, Rex (Charles Reginald), 1905-1990] – “CAPSTAN” : MURDER OF A MUSICIAN [COVER TITLE]. London : Paget Publications, [1949]. First edition. Death aboard the luxury liner which large and loud Tim McGee had a hunch about and stowed away on to be near Janet Masani. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45218 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
KEENE, Effie & OTHERS : THRILLING ROMANCES. London : Twyn Barlwm Press (Bear Hudson – distributors), [1948]. One of the seven issues of this Bear Hudson publication – three illustrated short stories: “Holiday Queen” by Effie Keene; “One Girl’s Secret” by Frances Ferry, and “Her Gypsy Lover” by Veronica Slater. SOLD |
![]() |
MORROW, Ann : MOONLIGHT IN VENICE. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1949]. First edition. Ann gives the gondolier a charming smile, pats her auburn hair, and almost falls out of the gondola. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43288 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
SILK, Silvia : TWO MEN AND TRICIA. London : Paget Publications, [1949]. First edition. Innocent and beautiful Tricia Duncan is confused by the two new men who arrive to run her disabled grandfather’s farm. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43289 – or simply click on the button
|
![]() |
WARD, Blanche : WANDERING GIRL. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [ca.1946]. First edition. Selma Langston, pretty as a picture, does not care for her job selling dresses to fat women. Also included in this typical early Hamilton production is a second short story, “Dangerous Lover” by Christine Waverley. SOLD |
![]() |
“WATTSON, Jean” : DANGEROUS BACHELOR. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1949]. First edition. Sheena begins to think she has married beneath her – and the acute post-war housing shortage is not helping. Jean Wattson is thought perhaps to be a pseudonym of the author John F. Watt. Although not announced on cover or title-page, the last seventeen pages contain a separate story – “Flame of Desire” by Janice Talbot. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45215 – or simply click on the button
|
Return to Ash Rare Books home page. |
Designed and © 2022 Ash Rare Books
e-mail: books@ashrare.com