SCION LTD. – BRITISH PULP FICTION AT ASH RARE BOOKS
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“ANGEL, Ross” – [CRESSWELL, Donald] : I’LL FRY YET. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. “You know what a small town is like, everybody knows everybody else’s business, and the routine for the transportation of dough from the bank to the railroad was so ordinary that nobody bothered even to think about it” – until someone does. Although the author of some forty “Ross Angel” titles, Cresswell has so far evaded further identification, but he was presumably the Donald Cresswell living with Leila Cresswell at 5 New Row in Covent Garden in 1948 and later in Hampstead. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44635 – or simply click on the button
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“BOCCA, Al” – [WINTER, Bevis, 1918-1985] : “DEAD ON DELIVERY”. London : Scion, (1950). First edition. “From the rich, colourful, hazardous records of a tough sanguinary career, Bocca has word-sculpted a series of engrossing, punch-laden novels in which the element of raw-life reality throbs with violent insistence”. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45489 – or simply click on the button
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“DRAYTON, Ricky” – [BARNES, Michael Lethbridge Gorell, 1926-1982] : HELL AND HIGH WATER. 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. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45904 – or simply click on the button
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“HARKON, Franz” : SPAWN OF SPACE. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. The crash of a spaceship on a Pacific island releases monster Zimmos – “the entire novel is a disaster” (Harbottle & Holland A223). The same characters appear in “Interstellar Espionage” by “Astron del Martia” (presumably the same author) published by Gaywood the following year £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45693 – or simply click on the button
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“HAMPTON, Mark” : RAW DEAL FOR DAMES. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. “It was a woman’s body. She lay face down in the gutter ...” – the first of the handful of Scion titles produced under the “Mark Hampton” name. The introductory note presents him as a recently arrived American – so the name probably covers one of the regulars from the Scion stable. SOLD |
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“HANSEN, Frank” – [BARNES, Michael Lethbridge Gorell, 1926-1982] : LADY BE BAD! London : Scion, (1953). First edition. “Hey, sailor!” he repeated. “How'ja like to buy the biggest damn diamond in the world?” SOLD |
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“LINTON, Duke” – [FRANCES, Stephen Daniel, 1917-1989] : BURY ME DEEP. London : Scion, [1950]. First edition. An early “Duke Linton”, attributed to Stephen Frances (a.k.a. Hank Janson), almost certainly with the involvement of Geoffrey Pardoe, by Steve Holland – the hotel heist plot owing much to W. R. Burnett’s “High Sierra”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 46064 – or simply click on the button
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“LINTON, Duke” : THAT DAME SAL. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. An Al O’Toole thriller – the hellcat Silver Sal escapes from a fatal car crash and “I knew that as long as Silver Sal was at large I would have no peace”. “Duke Linton”was a house-name used by a number of different Scion writers, but the present title is probably by Vic Hanson (1920-2001). SOLD |
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“LINTON, Duke” – [HANSON, Victor Joseph, 1920-2001 & LOWE, Herbert Victor, 1916-1991] : WAS SHE POISON? London : Scion, (1953). First edition. Duke is swimming with a blonde and a redhead in the Gulf – and then their friend (the brunette) gets shot. Duke Linton was a Scion house-name, but American copyright records give the authors of the present title as Victor John Hanson and Herbert Victor Lowe – the first presumably Victor Joseph Hanson. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43052 – or simply click on the button
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“LUGAR, Hans” : YOU DON'T SAY! London : Scion, (1951). First edition. “I rented the place, paid a quarter in advance, watched the guy paint my name on the door, and then waited. I waited all right. Waited until I'd run out of cash, run out of friends, and near run out of patience ...”. The “Hans Lugar” Scion house-name was used for twenty or so titles by a variety of authors between 1950 and 1954 – principally by a writer only identified as Quinn. SOLD |
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“PERRELLI, Nick” – [DAWSON, George Herbert, 1916-1980] : WHO TOLD THE BELLE. London : Scion, (1953). First edition. “Sometimes you can open a window and still feel normal; sometimes you are not so sure”. The startling clatter of a machine-gun outside disturbs the peace of a newspaper office. SOLD |
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“SHANNON, Brad”- [HANSON, Victor Joseph, 1920-2001] : SO MANY DEAD. 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 ...”. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45661 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : PETRIFIED PLANET. London : Scion, (1951). First edition. Married couple return from a maiden voyage to Venus to find the Earth stopped in time – “A well-written and fascinating exploration of the ‘frozen time’ theme, usually confined to short stories” (Harbottle & Holland A159). £30 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43093 – or simply click on the button
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“STATTEN, Vargo” – [FEARN, John Russell, 1908-1960] : SCIENCE METROPOLIS. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. “Set in a future when time travelling is commonplace ... the story of a population in deadly peril from a Jovian super scientist who has vowed vengeance on Humanity for the destruction of his home world” (Harbottle & Holland A163). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 44324 – or simply click on the button
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TUBB, E.C. (Edwin Charles), 1919-2010 : CITY OF NO RETURN. London : Scion, (1954). First edition. Klaglan – the ancient, mysterious and forbidden city of Mars – Halmar the Guide, Lorna the dancer from Venus, and the man called Smith try to penetrate its crystal walls. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41552 – or simply click on the button
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TUBB, E.C. (Edwin Charles), 1919-2010 : JOURNEY TO MARS. London : Scion, [1954]. First edition. Verrill needs to get to Mars where a spaceship is making ready for the Big Jump to the stars, but he is stranded on Venus without money, papers or weapons. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41537 – or simply click on the button
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“VOGEL, Hans” – [AMBLER, Dail, 1919-1974 & LOWE, Herbert Victor, 1916-1991] : JITTERY DAME. London : Scion, (1953). First edition. Chicago gangland boss has a stunning new girlfriend – but his colleagues haven’t been told. Although earlier “Hans Vogel” titles had mainly been written for the Glasgow publisher John Watson by Norman Lazenby, after Watson sold the rights in the name to Scion in 1952 authorship becomes less clear. In this instance, a contemporary American copyright registration attributes the work to Dail Ambler and Herbert Victor Lowes (i.e. Lowe) – Dail Ambler was the regular pseudonym of 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. £75 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43050 – or simply click on the button
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“ZORÉ, Hyman” – [HANSON, Victor Joseph, 1920-2001 & LOWE, Herbert Victor, 1916-1991] : COVER THAT CORPSE. London : Scion, (1952). First edition. “The dame must’ve have let herself in with a key she’d swiped from the receptionist downstairs. I could have told her to get the hell out of it, but I didn’t” – action, suspense, dames, liquor and more. Scion took over the “Hyman Zoré” name from Muir-Watson of Glasgow in 1952 and it was subsequently used by a number of Scion regulars. American copyright records give the authors of the present title as Victor John Hansen and Herbert Victor Lowe – the first presumably Victor Joseph Hanson. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43209 – or simply click on the button
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