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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : LADY – DON’T TURN OVER. London : Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (1940). First edition. The first of the Darcy Glinto series – “Clare Holding went to a night club, but she didn’t go back home ...” – Kelly’s archetypal White Slave kidnap novel – withdrawn from sale by the publishers after a prosecution for alleged obscenity and hefty fines for both publishers and author. SOLD |
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : NO MORTGAGE ON A COFFIN. London : Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., (1941). First edition. “His work was sabotage; his recreation women”. Gangsters, Nazi spies and mistresses in East Coast America. The book was voluntarily withdrawn from sale by the publishers when both they and the author pleaded guilty to obscenity charges relating to two other Glinto titles at the Old Bailey in May 1942. SOLD |
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : NO MORTGAGE ON A COFFIN. London : Robin Hood Press, [ca.1949]. [Second edition]. “His work was sabotage; his recreation women”. Gangsters, Nazi spies, and mistresses in East Coast America. Originally published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. in 1941, the book was voluntarily withdrawn from sale by the publishers when both they and the author pleaded guilty to obscenity charges relating to two other Glinto titles at the Old Bailey in May 1942. Although retaining the original 1941 date, the present edition from the Robin Hood Press (established in 1946) is manifestly somewhat later and roughly datable from the lower wrapper advertisement for a Bryn Logan western published in 1949. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 32547 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : SNOW VOGUE. Robin Hood Press, [1950]. Second edition. “Fiendish drug-orgies shock America”. Originally published By Wells Gardner in 1941, but almost certainly withdrawn from sale in the wake of the Old Bailey obscenity trial in May 1942. Although undated, the present copy has a small and neat date-stamp of October 6th 1950 on the title-page, presumably representing a date of acquisition. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46052 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : CURTAINS FOR CARRIE. London : Robin Hood Press, 1947. First edition. “Searchlight beams from the famous revenue cutters stabbing out of the blackness. The chase! The grim stutter of machine guns! The pile-up! The blaze!”. Greek gangster rules the Atlantic waterfront – “Carrie’s father challenged him. But the Greek won. Donovan went to the ‘chair’. Yet that was only part of the revenge ... Carrie was to become his mistress ... But Carrie was different. She would and did fight him on his own terms”. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45374 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : ROAD FLOOZIE. London : Robin Hood Press, 1950. Second edition. “She was Irish and her hot blood could not submit to the steamy confinement of a machine shop and the baiting of the vicious old forewoman. She cut loose ...”. First published in 1941 – both author and publisher were found guilty of publishing obscene books at an Old Bailey trial the following year, the present book characterised as “coarse and brutal”. Kelly was heavily fined (£100 at 1942 prices) and remanded in custody until payment had been made. SOLD |
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : THE HANGMAN IS A WOMAN. London : Robin Hood Press, [ca.1950]. First edition. The anatomy of a Soho “cosh-boy” – “It is the publisher’s belief that in this book Darcy Glinto performs a great public service. He strips every shred of glamour from the figure which is, perhaps, the most contemptible and vicious in all London’s underworld”. SOLD |
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : “YOU TOOK ME – KEEP ME”. London : Robin Hood Press, (1941) [but 1952]. [Second edition] : a variant state, with a 2/6 rather than 2/- cover price, and the cover tag-line reading “a sincere and gripping story”, rather than “the book that was nearly banned”. The other alternative state announced, “Like the public, Darcy Glinto himself and the present publishers, believe that ‘You Took Me, Keep Me’ is the best Darcy Glinto of them all”. First published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co. in 1941, the book was voluntarily withdrawn from sale by the publishers when both they and the author pleaded guilty to obscenity charges relating to two other Glinto titles at the Old Bailey in May 1942. £100 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44034 – or simply click on the button
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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] : YOURS TRULY, HOODLUM. London : Robin Hood Press, 1953. [First? edition]. Lugs Cortesi, slum-rat with an underwear fetish, junkies, brothels, etc. An earlier edition published by Wells Gardner has been inferred, but the evidence is sketchy and the publishers’ edition statement (first published 1953) is quite explicit. It may be possible that a Wells Gardner edition was announced but pulled from publication in the wake of the 1942 trial. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45488 – or simply click on the button
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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : PROTECTION PAY-OFF. London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. First edition. “The biggest blow-up Chicago had ever known” – “There had been a time when Sid had been known as the Stiff on account of his resemblance to a corpse”. Other titles listed on the lower wrapper had originally been published 1952-1953 under Reginald Carter’s earlier Comyns imprint: he took over the Alexander Moring name on his release from prison in 1955. SOLD |
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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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“GLINTO, Darcy” – [KELLY, Harold Ernest, 1899-1969] : BLONDE, CUTE AND WICKED [DAINTY WAS A JANE]. London : Alexander Moring, [1956]. First edition under this title. A Glinto curiosity – gangster Dainty Sabina turns out to be a woman. The action commences with a stick-up in the Long Bar at the Sandy Hook Hotel on 53rd. Originally published as “Dainty was a Jane” in 1948. SOLD |
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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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