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BOUNDS, Sydney J. (Sydney James), 1920-2006 : DIMENSION OF HORROR. London : Panther Books, Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), (1953). First edition. Earthman teams up with green-haired Venusian girl and a creature from another dimension to save Earth and Venus from war and destruction. Sacrifice demanded. SOLD |
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“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
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CUNNINGHAM, Paul : [DROP TITLE] TOAST TO SATAN. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [ca.1946]. First edition. Nick and Joan come under rifle fire as they investigate a powerful speed launch on the Channel coast.. SOLD |
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : OLD GROWLER AND ORBIS. SCIENCE FICTION MONTHLY NO. 9. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1951]. First edition. Almost the entire issue of the magazine is given over to this full-length story – a novella in the Deegan “Old Growler” series, a rather attractive British precursor of “Star Trek”. The final few leaves are given over to a quiz, a short piece on atoms, some science news, and a couple of short reviews (one for Asimov’s I, Robot). £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45696 – or simply click on the button
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : CORRIDORS OF TIME. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1953]. First edition : the paperback issue. The first in the Corridors of Time trilogy – Dysart and Magda know they must plunge into Time itself in pursuit of the avenging Kazan – four times the time-warp hurtles them to unknown dimensions. Panther Book 85. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30868 – or simply click on the button
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : BEYOND THE FOURTH DOOR. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1954]. First edition : the paperback issue. The second in the Corridors of Time trilogy – Magda and Dysart in pursuit of the thief of the symbolic jewel – a tenuous trail of radioactivity through time to follow. Panther Book 96. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30869 – or simply click on the button
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“DEEGAN, Jon J.” – [SHARP, Robert George, 1902-1967] : EXILES IN TIME. London : Panther Books – Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1954]. First edition : the paperback issue. Illegal excavations below the portals of time. The final volume in the Corridors of Time series – Panther Book 117. £15 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 30867 – or simply click on the button
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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
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EAGLE, John : RECKLESS JOURNEY. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), 1947. First edition. Newspaper editor and private investigator arrive at a country inn with a peculiar landlord – reporter Miss French has gone missing. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45261 – or simply click on the button
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FIRTH, N. Wesley (Norman Wesley), 1920-1949 : BROADWAY DOLL [COVER TITLE]. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1946]. First edition. Sixteen-year-old girl who knows boys can be bad, but not quite how bad, is acquitted of murder. Twenty years on, she writes down “what really went on that night in the luxurious room above the Bexton Burlesque Theatre”. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45945 – or simply click on the button
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FIRTH, N. Wesley (Norman Wesley), 1920-1949 : DECEIT. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [ca.1946]. First edition. “Listen: it all started on account of a dame an’ a telescope – then one dame led to another and so on. There was Fay – cute but snooty – Cynthia, who was a regular dream thing; Margaretta, who got ‘cooled off’ too early; Amaris, who – well, you’ll find out about that baby! Then there were some funny – and dangerous – guys”. Firth in fine form with a tale that opens in New York’s Central Park. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45238 – or simply click on the button
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FIRTH, N. Wesley (Norman Wesley), 1920-1949 : FUTURISTIC STORIES [COVER TITLE]. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1946]. First edition. One of just two known issues of this short-lived science fiction magazine – three stories – Firth’s “The Lords of Zorm” and “Laughter of the Gods”, the latter written under his “Earl Ellison” pseudonym, and “The Timeless Dimension” by “Rice Ackman”, almost certainly another Firth pseudonym. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45698 – or simply click on the button
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[FIRTH, N. Wesley (Norman Wesley), 1920-1949] – “FIRTH, Sheila A.” : ORCHID LADY. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1948?]. First edition. A charming tale which opens in Petticoat Lane on a Sunday morning and the prettiest girl in the market is serving jellied eels. Firth here using the name of his daughter, Sheila Ann Firth (1945-2018), as one of his many pseudonyms. Also includes an additional story – “Her Next-Door Rival”, by Eve Calvert. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45217 – or simply click on the button
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FIRTH, N. Wesley (Norman Wesley), 1920-1949 : STUDIO REVELS. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1946]. First edition. Girl from a sweat shop responds to a modelling advertisement – the “inside story” of Greenwich Village – “queer, crazy characters, torn from a page of life, the riotous studio parties, the life of a professional model, and the excitement of the hunt for a crazed strangler”. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45236 – or simply click on the button
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HERVEY, Michael, 1915-1979 : STRANGE HUNGER. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1946]. First edition. Wealthy young inventor summons together the best brains in the world to propose a new World Union – a pertinent and interesting science fiction title not listed by Harbottle & Holland. SOLD |
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HUTTON, W.R. (William Richard), 1913-1998 : BROADWAY RACKET. London : Hamilton & Co. (Stafford), [1946]. First edition. Tim Regan’s wife abandons him on the same day that the police are tipped off about his planned bank robbery – five years on he emerges from prison. A rather more literate text than the usual Hamilton fare. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45221 – or simply click on the button
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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
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“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
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