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London : Bear, Hudson, (1944). First edition. “Humour, surprise, adventure, the prize ring, outwitting the Gestapo in Paris, a suggestion of the supernatural, a glimpse of the Spain of today, and a little dirty work at the cross-roads, are among the subjects of these eleven stories”. Apart from Audemars, the other authors are P. G. Allen, Edward Cranston, the Canadian Denys Davies, Herbert Harrison, the prolific Michael Hervey, Tristan Nelson (two stories), the film critic David Ockham, and Fabian Tanner (two stories).
Crown 8vo (19cm). 32pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; a little worn, creased and slightly soiled; staples rusted; a few slight spots, but a good copy of a scarce and fragile early Bear Hudson title. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£40

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London : United Anglo-American Book Co., [ca.1948]. First British edition. Brilliant but clumsy and absent-minded doctor divines from some Rorschach tests that someone is about to be killed and that another guest of nurse Judy Ford will be the murderer. An interesting debut murder mystery from the American film producer and maker of Agatha Christie movies in the UK. Originally published by Knopf in New York in 1946.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 176pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers, presumably by John Pollack; a little wear and some minor creasing; short split at foot; a few internal spots and some mild tanning, but a very good copy of a scarce production. No copy of this edition found in any major library worldwide.

£50

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London : Curtis Warren, [ca.1950]. First edition. “Gilda’s voice sounded as stonecold dead as Johnny Morgan was. She had just entered the room, The Midge hot on her tail. None of the boys screening the bloody mess on the couch moved. None of them met her grey eyes. Except Chummy Ricketts, and he didn’t like what he read there”. “Nick Baroni” was a Curtis Warren house-name, first used by Frederick Tom Foden (1907-1982) and subsequently by various other writers, but although over twenty “Baroni” titles are known, perhaps eight by Foden, just one has been located in major libraries worldwide.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – “Read how the girls of the underworld take the lid off Manhattan”; some nicks creases and slight marks; front cover slighly defective at foot; rear cover more seriously defective, lacking about 20% towards the fore-edge (a complete back cover is supplied in facsimile); staples a little rusted; text very slightly tanned, with some mild discolouration in places; one leaf creased; a passable copy of an uncommon title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£40

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London : Modern Fiction, [1948]. First edition. A “Postman Always Rings Twice” type of tale, the lovely Carol married to ghastly filling-station proprietor Lem Spelter, passing-by Peter Willmore taking a job with them to pay his way. The book featured in a legal dispute between the publisher Edwin Turvey and his author Frank Dubrez Fawcett over who held the rights to the “Ben Sarto” pseudonym. Turvey’s case was that he had invented the name and could use it on any book he wished, Fawcett’s that he had written all the original Sarto titles and the name was clearly his. It was evidently Turvey s original intention to publish this as by “Ben Sarto”, a name given in larger letters on the cover than Buxton’s. The court case revealed that Buxton’s real name was Marsh, that the book had actually been written some years earlier, and that the foreword by “Ben Sarto” was initially written by Turvey and then cleaned up by Buxton/Marsh.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a redhead by H. W. Perl; a little rubbing and light wear; wrappers somewhat creased; staples rusting, but still a good copy of a scarce title. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£75

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London : Castle Books [ca.1954]. First edition. Published by Castle Books of Grays Inn Road, distributed by the Gaywood Press, and apparently the thirty-fourth “Ace Capelli” title – a writer (according to the publishers) being spoken of as a second Raymond Chandler. The Capelli name was originally used by Stephen Daniel Frances (Hank Janson), and later taken over by Geoffrey Pardoe, Norman Lazenby, and others.
Foolscap 8vo (17cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; a little rubbed, slightly worn and creased, with some marks to rear wrapper; staples rusted, but a good copy. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£75

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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.
Crown 8vo (18cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – Maria does sultry in blue; somewhat worn and creased, with a few short tears; corner chipped from rear wrapper, with the loss of a couple of letters; staples rusted; some spotting of edges; a serviceable copy of a rare title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£50

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London : Scion, (1951). First edition. “Right then Marcelle was doing a good job of intoxicating me, sitting there in a Bikini that wouldn’t have made a moth’s hors d’oeuvre, singing a smoochy ditty in a voice that would have been a swell contralto if there hadn’t been so much gin in it”. Murder and mayhem in New Orleans.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 112pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a design by John Pollack; some wear; wrappers a little creased and fingered; some internal marks, creases and spots, but a reasonable copy. Just a single copy (Bodleian) located in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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London : Milestone Publications, (1954). First edition. “Frank Marlowe, high-ranking Government executive engaged on top-secret work in Washington’s Pentagon building, made his one false move when he met copper-haired Fran Waring – a move that landed him in a web of blackmail, espionage – and murder”.
Crown 8vo (19cm). (128)pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – redhead, allure, menace; some minor wear and slight creasing; internally a few spots and some light tanning, but overall still a very good copy of a scarce title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£60

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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”.
Crown 8vo (19cm). (128)pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a handsome H. W. Perl redhead; slightly sunned; some very minor wear; a couple of faint creases; three tiny holes and some minute indentations to front wrapper; staples slightly rusted; a few slight spots to edges and last leaf, but still a very good copy of a scarce and fragile title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£75

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [ca.1951]. First edition. Gangster client of ruthless defence attorney Stab Kelly is shot dead through his office window – two beautiful but wholly contrasting women are immediately involved. “Spike Gordon” was one of the new set of fictitious authors introduced by the Turveys at the height of their success – it is believed to mask the identity of John Russell Fearn.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 126,[ii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – elegant redhead looks concerned about the dead man; a little rubbed, nicked, creased and very slightly chipped; staples rusted; text a little brittle and tanned, with a few chips; one leaf torn and slightly defective, with the loss of a handful of letters, but overall a good copy of a rare title. No copy traced in any major library worldwide.

£75

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1949]. First edition. “Here, in a tale of romance in the underworld of New York, famous American ace crime reporter ‘Griff’ makes his début to British readers and tears aside the veil that cloaks the activities of the callous racketeers who batten on human frailties”. McKeag launches the highly successful “Griff” pseudonym, later used by a variety of other authors beside himself. Reporter Bill Truscott knows at once that the sight of high-stepper Susette Delaine sitting alone at the Regency Bar of the Ritz-Deauville can only mean trouble.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – H. W. Perl – Hyman Woolf Perlzweig (1897-1952) – and an enigmatic blonde; spine slightly worn and darkened; a little worn, creased, marked, nicked and chipped; ink markings to front wrapper; staples rusted; a few small internal flaws, but a reasonable copy of major introduction to the genre – the first of the “Griff” novels. Just a single copy (British Library) traced in major libraries worldwide.

£40

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London : Modern Fiction, [1949]. First edition. “When Jinx Engels got a glim of the blonde in the mink coat in the foyer of the Blue Orchid he stopped dead on the sidewalk and took another gander through the plate-glass swing doors. It was Marilou all right. Then his grey matter side-stepped and took an eight-year flash-back. He remembered her when last he had seen her ...”. McKeag with a lively early title in the “Griff” series.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 159,[i]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a design by John Pollack; some light wear; a few nicks; some inked marking to front wrapper; rear wrapper a little nicked and frayed, but still overall a very good copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£75

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1950]. First edition. One of the most successful of the Griff titles – at least three different editions are known: the present copy, with 160 pages, the name and address of the printers (Craig Mitchell & Co.) given only in abbreviated form, and with advertisements consonant with a publication date of 1950, would appear to pre-date both the 128pp edition and the 110pp one. Chapter headings include Blondes Mean Trouble, White Slave Racket, When Crooks Fall Out, etc.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 160pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – blondes in underwear, whip, Mexican hat; a little worn and chipped; some creasing; staples very slightly rusted; some mild browning and spotting, but overall a good copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£75

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1951]. First edition. “I’m surprised you didn’t join the police force,” she said. I’d squatted on that springy, tubular metal chair she’d indicated. “I was always bottom of my class. But that ain’t low enough for the I.Q. the dicks insist on. And I couldn’t match up to their high standard of dishonesty and corruption”. Rich private eye for kicks Don Danby takes on an insurance case.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; some light wear and slight creasing; a few marks to rear wrapper; staples rusted, but generally a very good copy of a scarce title. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1952]. First edition. “If a guy is a private eye, which is the other word for private detective or inquiry agent, he oughta keep his hands off his lady clients, if any. Tonio Folari didn’t do that” – and Maria Speratta is quick to teach him a lesson. “You just can’t leave off, once you start. You go hurrying, thirsty. You lose sleep. You miss your love-date. But you get forgiven when you say: ‘I’ve been reading Crooked Coffins’. Yes, folks – this book does that to you – and everybody”.
Crown 8vo (18cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a stylish design by Leonard Potts; spine chipped in places; wrappers rubbed, nicked and creased; rear wrapper and final few leaves a little torn, without loss; staples rusted; some light spotting and browning, but a serviceable copy of an uncommon title. An enthusiastic “yes” inscribed on half-title. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1952]. First edition. “They say that the Devil was in cahoots with Uncle Sam at the time when Pittsburg got built. I’d not know, but I’m not denying that the gory, upleaping flames of the great blast furnaces, and writhing, unearthly-yellow glows of the steel ovens look mighty like it”. Well-off private eye Don Danby has a body fall on him soon after he arrives.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers in a striking design of green-eyed redhead above a shoot-out; spine a little chipped; wrappers rubbed and a little creased; but a good and serviceable copy of an uncommon title. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£40

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1952]. First edition. Man hits an abandoned parked car on his way to Chicago – it’s riddled with bullets and a dead blonde falls out. Then a spray gun is planted in his car.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 110,[ii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a typical Leonard Potts design; slightly chipped; wrappers a little worn and frayed; a few minor internal flaws, but a good and serviceable copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£40

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1953]. First edition. Con-men, pimps, gamblers, gun-men and their women gather in a bar in San Francisco and talk of an escape from Alcatraz. The “Griff” house-name was used by at least half a dozen authors, but the present title is attributed to William Simpson Newton.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 126,[ii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a design by Leonard Potts – redhead, fat man, man in a hat starts shooting; some minor wear; front wrapper creased; with some slight creasing elsewhere; text a little tanned in places, but otherwise a nice copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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London : Modern Fiction (London), [1953]. First edition. “The chronicle of three days of terror in the life of the District Attorney’s Chief Investigator, Shaun O’Riordan. Murder gone mad aptly describes that searing melodrama of the law-and-order brigade’s fight against one of the most indecent corruptions that ever polluted a fair city ... In the process he met some people of very curious characteristics, including several very lovely ladies”.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 126,[ii]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; some light wear; colour touched up at foot; staples rusted; a few leaves printed a little faintly, but otherwise a very good copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£40

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London : Editorial Services, [1957]. First edition. Horgan is hired by Motion Picture International to buy off a scandal magazine which has a sizzling story on their million-dollar actress – then the man who runs the magazine is found dead. Number 11 of a dozen or so McCall Horgan “Glamour Mysteries” published in 1957-1958.
Crown 8vo (18cm). [3]-130pp. Original pictorial wrappers; some mild rubbing and slight wear; a few faint marks, but overall a very good, clean, and sound copy. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£25

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Glasgow : McKenzie Vincent & Co., [ca.1950]. First edition. Murder on the outskirts of St Albans – Scotland Yard is called in.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 96pp. Plan. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; a few slight creases; staples much rusted with attendant discolouration; small sticker removed from rear wrapper; a good copy of an uncommon production. Just a single copy (National Library of Scotland) located in major libraries worldwide.

£20

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London : Edwin Self & Co., [ca.1953]. First edition. Raven-haired Belle Marsden wants to leave one strong, muscular and powerful man, for another, even more brutal, who has just come out of prison.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; a poor copy, worn, creased and chipped; lacks rear wrapper entirely; staples rusted; one leaf torn and defective, with the loss of a number of words; final leaves nicked and a little spotted, but a working copy of a scarce title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£25

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London : John Spencer & Co., [ca.1952]. First edition. “Her body is her meal ticket ... and she never goes hungry”! “Rick Madison” was a house-name used by both Sydney James Bounds (1920-2006) and Lisle Willis (1919-1988).
Crown 8vo (19cm). 127,[i]pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a distinctive design by John Pollack (1918-1985); some chipping, wear, and creasing; some internal spotting; a serviceable copy of an uncommon title. Just a single copy (British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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London : Modern Fiction, [1948]. First edition. “These ‘spivs’, as they are named, have no identity cards, no ration books, no clothing or other coupons of legal acquisition. They are, in a civic sense, outlaws”. Post-war London memorably evoked as swell-looking “Yorkshire Alice”, popular with thieves and con-men, is knifed to death in a Soho alley. Correspondence from 1947 between Fawcett and his publisher, Edwin Turvey, reveals that the original manuscript was mislaid for a time, but that Fawcett was paid £33 for this “very good Sarto indeed” and Perl probably £5 for the cover.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a redhead in blue by H. W. Perl; slightly chipped and somewhat creased, with a few short nicks and tears; failed tape repair to front wrapper; text lightly tanned, but a reasonable copy of an uncommon title. Just a single copy (British Library) traced in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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London : Camden Publishing Co., [ca.1930]. An undated reissue of typical Camden Publishing fare, apparently first issued in 1916 and perhaps written, or at least edited, by the Australian author William Nicholas Willis (1858-1922). Dora Stuyvesant, quiet daughter of the leader of the American community in Paris, is introduced to society – somewhat in the shadow of her flamboyant older sister Sybil.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 146,[ii]pp. Original pictorial wrappers – an attractive design by “M.M.”; some minor wear and slight creasing; patch of mild discolouration to rear wrapper and final few leaves, but still a very good copy of an uncommon publication. No copy of this reissue located in any major library worldwide – and just a single copy (British Library) of the 1916 edition.

£40

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London : Alexander Moring, [ca.1956]. [Second edition]. “It’s close to sundown, and way ahead lights are winking up along the sprawling sucker-trap that is the Hellfire Strip, wide open merry-go-round of the good-time dolls and the sugar-daddies ...” – a pacy tale set in Las Vegas. Originally published under Reginald Carter’s earlier Comyns imprint in 1953.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 141,[iii]pp. Original pictorial wrappers – a cheery brunette from Leonard Potts; some very minor wear; two diagonal creases to front wrapper, but otherwise a very good copy. No copy of this edition located in any major library worldwide.

£40

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London : Scion, [1950]. First edition. “I had one hand on the wheel and the other on Annette. I was plastered and the feel of her made me crazier still ... then there was a sudden note of alarm in Annette’s cries as the car did a buck and a wing on the edge of a ditch ...”.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 112pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a design by Gomez; some minor wear and spotting; a couple of slight chips to rear wrapper; staples a little rusted; a few spots to text, but a good and serviceable copy. Just a single copy (Bodleian) located in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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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.
Crown 8vo (18cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a typical design by Reginald Heade; some very mild rubbing and creasing; a few faint marks, but a very good copy. Just two copies (Bodleian and British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£75

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London : Harborough Publishing Co., [1953]. First edition. Ambulance chasing and insurance fraud with Molly Pykeron and a Cadillac in Miami.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – a redhead unmistakeably by Reginald Heade; somewhat worn and creased; rear wrapper a little spotted; staples rusted, but a serviceable copy. Just two copies (Bodleian and British Library) located in major libraries worldwide.

£40

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London : Edwin Self & Co., [ca.1952]. First edition. “A fascinating story of the modern Paris underworld with all the romantic and glamorous aspects of life with artist’s models and midinettes” from “one of the newest successes in modern French literature”. This and the rest of the authorial biography – poor boy from Montmartre, served with the Maquis, imprisoned by the Gestapo – is all a complete fiction. Valois was the pseudonym of Lisle Willis, ex-RAF English school-teacher, local councillor and prospective parliamentary candidate. Both he and his publisher, Edwin Self, were tried on bizarre obscenity charges in 1954 and, even more bizarrely, found guilty. Self went to prison, Willis heavily fined and barred for life from teaching (he went into television). For an excellent account of the whole affair see Steve Holland’s “The Big Panic : The Story of Edwin Self and Pedigree Books”.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers in a design by Leonard Potts; spine slightly chipped at tips; small chip to front wrapper, a larger one (approx 4 x 1.5cm) to back wrapper; price inked on to front wrapper; a little worn and creased; text lightly tanned, but a good copy of a scarce and fragile title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£40

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London : Curtis Warren, [ca.1950]. First edition. Set in Los Angeles – Dulcie Friede, “a well-bred girl with a background of dough ... a girl in a million – like Cleopatra, Juliet and Betty Grable”, falls in with a man just out of jail and looking for recompense. “Brett Vane” was a Curtis Warren house-name, first used by Frederick Tom Foden (1907-1982) and subsequently by various other writers, including Norman Lazenby (1914-2003). Although fifty or so Brett Vane titles are known, over half by Foden, only six are to be found in major libraries worldwide.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 128pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – unsigned but looking uncommonly like Betty Grable as envisioned by H. W. Perl; some nicks, creases and slight marks; small chip to spine; a chip and two holes to back wrapper – one minor, but the other about 5cm x 2.5cm (1-3/4” x 1”); staples rusted; a reasonable copy of an uncommon title. No copy located in any major library worldwide.

£50

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London : Modern Fiction, [1949]. First edition. Pretty secretary Claire Norton, orphaned in the war, sexually harassed from her last job, lands a new position with celebrated author “John Mallory” – who turns out to be a Joan Mallory, with a handsome artist nephew. Passport required for a new world of Biarritz, Cauterets, Pau and the Pyrenees.
Crown 8vo (19cm). 64pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers – an H. W. Perl blonde seemingly inspired by Marlene Dietrich; lightly rubbed; tiny chip at foot; 3cm chip to the slightly dusty rear wrapper, with the loss of a few letters; text lightly tanned, with some faint spotting to the outer leaves; but a good copy of an uncommon title. Just a single copy (British Library) traced in major libraries worldwide.

£50

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Glasgow : Muir-Watson, [1951]. First edition. Small-town beauty Topaz Gellhart surrenders herself to an itinerant artist and now knows she must experience little old New York. Meanwhile, Jek Arminos, New York gang boss, drives pretty Sally Armour to suicide.
Crown 8vo (18cm). (128)pp. Original pictorial stapled wrappers; some light marks, some creasing, and a little wear, but a better than usual copy of a Muir-Watson publication. Just two copies (Bodleian & National Library of Scotland) found in major libraries worldwide.

£75

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