PAUL KENYON (DONALD MOFFITT)
COMPLETE SET OF THE BARONESS #1-8 £140
Pocket Books 1974/75 All with cover art by Hector Gando; uniform editions
THE BARONESS #1: THE ECSTASY CONNECTION
VG 1st US PB Mild cover creasing; some spine fading 671779060
‘She likes her action fast…and her men one hundred proof!’
THE BARONESS #2: DIAMONDS ARE FOR DYING
GD 4th US PB Light creasing front, heavy creasing back; looks better; slight staining to some pages 671779044
‘The Sexy Superspy tangles with modern-day Nazis deep in the Brazilian jungle!’
THE BARONESS #3: DEATH IS A RUBY LIGHT
VG/FN 1st US PB Some spine fading 671777289
‘It’s America’s sexiest spy against a mad Chinese scientist and half the Red Army’
THE BARONESS #4: HARD-CORE MURDER
VG/FN 3rd US PB Very slight fading to spine 671779184
‘The Sexy Superspy in a sizzling scenario of gangland warfare’
THE BARONESS #5: OPERATION DOOMSDAY
VG 3rd US PB Reading creases at spine 671777629
‘The Sexy Superspy must save the world from a deadly lunar virus!’
THE BARONESS #6: SONIC SLAVE
VG 1st US PB Slight spine fading; small corner crease back cover 671779494
‘The Sexy Superspy in a scorching desert duel of sonic death’
THE BARONESS #7: FLICKER OF DOOM
VG 1st US PB Spine fading 671779613
‘The Sexy Superspy in an ultraviolent clash with arabic death’
THE BARONESS #8 BLACK GOLD
VG/FN 1st US PB Slight spine fading 671779621
‘The Sexy Superspy in a wildcat war against SPOLIER – and a slimy struggle for world domination’
THE PROFESSIONALS
#7: HIDING TO NOTHING
KEN BLAKE
Sphere 1981 UK PB
FN £6
0722117566
THE PROFESSIONALS
#9: NO STONE
KEN BLAKE
Sphere 1981 1st UK PB
VG/FN £5
0722116586
THE PROFESSIONALS
#11: SPY PROBE
KEN BLAKE
Sphere 1981 1st UK PB
FN £6
0722116616
THE PROFESSIONALS
#12: FOXHOLE
KEN BLAKE
Sphere 1982 1st UK PB
FN £6
0722116624
THE PROFESSIONALS
#13: THE UNTOUCHABLES
KEN BLAKE
Sphere 1982 1st UK PB
FN £6
0722116632
THE PROFESSIONALS
#14: OPERATION SUSIE
KEN BLAKE
Sphere 1983 UK PB
VG/FN £5
0722116640
JOHN BUDE (DUMMY FOR REF)
DEATH ON THE RIVIERA
British Library Crime Classics 2016 UK PB
Originally published 1952
Like New £5
9780712356374
MARTIN EDWARDS (Ed) (DUMMY FOR REF)
RESORTING TO MURDER
British Library Crime Classics 2015 1st UK PB
Short crime stories with a holiday theme
Conan Doyle, Hornung, Chesteron and many more
Like New £5
9780712357487
ANTHONY BERKELEY
THE POISONED CHOCOLATES CASE
British Library Crime Classics 2016 UK PB
Originally published 1929
Like New £5
9780712356534
FREEMAN WILLS CROFT
MYSTERY IN THE CHANNEL
British Library Crime Classics 2016 UK PB
Originally published 1931
Like New £5
9780712356510
MARTIN EDWARDS (Ed)
THE MEASURE OF MALICE
British Library Crime Classics 2019 1st UK PB
Short crime stories with scientific detection themes
Like New £5
9780712352895
GIL NORTH
SERGEANT CLUFF STANDS FIRM
British Library Crime Classics 2016 UK PB
Originally published 1960
Like New £5
9780712356466
JOHN CROWLEY
BEASTS
Orbit 1978 1st UK PB
GD/VG £7
Post apocalyptic mutant adventure
Minor rubbing and creasing; small label residue top right corner
0708880312
PETER DAGMAR
SPYKOS 4
Digit 1960 UK PB
GD £4
‘Strange life-forms on unexplored planets.’
Readuing and other creases; label residue bottom right corner.
JONATHAN FAST
THE SECRETS OF SYNCHRONICITY
Signet 1977 1st US PB
FN £4
‘Slabour – Planet of riches, planet of death.’
451W7556
SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY (DUMMY FOR REF)
#356: BY WHOSE HAND?
REX HARDINGE
Amalgamated 1950s
VG £7
‘It was death for the Eurasian beauty… but who fiired the fatal shot – and why?’
Cover art by David Wright
SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY (DUMMY FOR REF)
#441: A COLD NIGHT FOR MURDER
MARTIN THOMAS
Fleetway 1959
FA £3
‘A killer stalked the icy streets!’
No back cover
RUSSELL THORNDIKE
DR SYN: A TALE OF THE ROMNEY MARSH
Johnathan Cape (Florin) 1933 UK HC
FN £40
With DJ (VG/FN) in removable archival film
The first in the Dr Syn series
Book and DJ in remarkable state of preservation; just small sticker residue on back of DJ.
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MARGERY ALLINGHAM
THE CASE OF THE LATE PIG
Penguin 1961 5th UK PB
GD £4
A Campion Mystery
Worn and slightly foxed, with small lower spine split
276
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
DEATH OF A GHOST
Penguin 1959 4th UK PB
GD £4
A Campion Mystery
Slight spine lean, with splits at bottom
379
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
THE FASHION IN SHROUDS
Penguin 1954 2nd UK PB
FA/GD £4
A Campion Mystery
Worn and rubbed, with tape around top spine
MARGERY ALLINGHAM
NO LOVE LOST
Penguin 1959 1st UK PB thus
GD £4
Two stories of suspense
Upper spine split, tape around bottom spine
DOUGLAS HILL (Ed)
ALIEN WORLDS
Piccolo 1982 1st UK PB
GD/VG £3
Stories of Adventures on Other Planets
Anthology with Lewis, Bradbury, Clarke, Shaw, Silverberg, Brunner, Emshwiller
Nice condition wexcept mug ring on lower half cover.
0330268171
EDWARD D HOCH
THE JUDGES OF HADES
Leisure Books 1971 1st US PB
VG £13
Long Simon Ark stories of the occult from the 1950s; a 2000 year old man’s endless search to destroy evil
0843900334
CHRISTPHER HODDER-WILLIAMS
CHAIN REACTION
Corgi 1966 1st UK PB thus
VG £4
Mushroom cloud thriller
GS7484
J HUNTER HOLLY
THE GREEN PLANET
Monarch 1961 1st US PB
GD £4
‘Exiled from Earth, 13 refugees find themselves fighting foe their lives in a poisoned paradise.’
Edges rubbed, biro price on cover
213
J HUNTER HOLLY
THE GREY ALIENS
Mayflower Dell 1964 1st UK PB
VG £10
‘Where did the shadows come from? And what was their connection with the strange disappearances?’
3255
J HUNTER HOLLY
THE RUNNING MAN
Monarch 1963 1st US PB
VG/FN £4
‘No one was safe from the powerful force that reached from the stars to invade Man’s minds.’
Small biro price on cover
342
RICHARD TELFAIR
SCREAM BLOODY MURDER
Gold Medal 1961 1st UK PB
VG £4
‘Monty Nash up against a blonde beauty with red leanings – and a heart as black as murder.’
Edge rubbing and minor cover creasing
530
BOB TRALINS
LAW OF LUST
Tuxedo 1962 1st US PB thus
VG/FN £10
‘His consuming hunger for thrills of the flesh led to an orgy of rape, passion and murder.’
Formerly published as Caesar’s Bench
Only minor edge wear
107
ARTHUR UPFIELD
THE MOUNTAINS HAVE A SECRET
Pan 1954 1st UK PB
GD £6
An Inspector Bonaparte (Bony) thriller
Edge rubbing, lower spine split.
291
ROLAND VANE
SINFUL SISTERS
Archer 1951 1st US PB
GD £10
‘A story of two sisters set against a background of the sinister side-streets of Soho and the garish glamour of London night clubs.’
Cover art by Reginals Heade
Solid spine; long diagonal cover craese with tiny chip out right edge cover.
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