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“COSTELLO, Pete” : BOWERY BLONDE. London : Edwin Self & Co., [ca.1951]. First edition. “I felt like something had gone wrong with my breath. No dame had ever got me that way before ...”. An early Pete Costello title, with Edwin Self operating from his earlier Grays Inn Road address. The Costello house-name was used by a number of Self’s stable of writers, including George Bell and Frederick Foden. SOLD |
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“COSTELLO, Pete” : MARIA BE MINE. London : Edwin Self & Co., [ca.1951]. First edition. The sultry Maria Stanmore – “Sultry? You wouldn’t find a hotter dame anywhere ... not this side of hell” – turns her attentions to New York vice cop Johnny Hendrick. It does not end well. An early Pete Costello title, with publisher Edwin Self operating from his earlier Grays Inn Road address. The Costello house-name was used by a number of Self’s stable of writers, including George Bell and Frederick Foden. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45670 – or simply click on the button
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“COSTELLO, Pete” : REDHEADS SPELL DANGER. London : Edwin Self & Co., [ca.1952]. First edition. Sinuous mystery woman shoots flabby man: “That murder had been building up for a long time, and was never solved – officially. I could tell you something about it. I'll start at the beginning...”. An early Pete Costello title, with Edwin Self operating from his earlier Grays Inn Road address. The Costello house-name was used by a number of Self’s stable of writers, including George Bell and Frederick Foden. SOLD |
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“COSTELLO, Pete” – [BELL, George, 1922-2006] : MURDER IN MINK. London : Edwin Self & Co., [1953]. First edition. Minx, mink and murder. This was one of the five Edwin Self titles seized in a police raid on a shop in Maidstone in November 1953. Self was jailed for nine months on obscenity charges the following year, while the book’s author, George Bell, received six months. The fact that Bell was a school-teacher, a father of three, and a youth-club leader, caused something of a furore in the press at the time. Difficult to see now what the fuss was all about: we might legitimately complain about the sexism (although in this case two of the women end up pretty well empowered), but hardly the virtually non-existent sex. SOLD |
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