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London : Clive Bingley / Hamden: Linnet Books, (1975). First edition.
Demy 8vo. (122),[ii]pp. Original boards; just a hint of bruising to tips, but a very good, clean, bright and sound copy in the dust-jacket.

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New York : Harper & Row, (1971). First edition. One of the most comprehensive guides to the field - an annotated listing by author of novels of detection, crime, mystery, and espionage, together with sections on short stories, anthologies, etc., and studies and histories of the genre.
Demy 8vo. (xxxii),(832)pp. Original cloth; slightly shaken; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in a slightly nicked dust-jacket. With the contemporary ownership inscription of the late B.C.Bloomfield.

£25

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Taunton : Barn Owl Books, (1988). First edition. One of the standarde reference works, giving checklists of over 100 of the most collected authors, with descriptions of first-editions, dust-jackets, biographical notes, and illustrations, etc., with material on approaches to collecting, maintaining a collection, a glossary of terms, etc.
Crown 4to. x,212,[ii]pp. Numerous illustrations. Colour plates. Original boards; near fine in dust-jacket.

£35

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Pasadena : Salem Press, (1989). First edition. An exhaustive bibliography of the available biographical and critical material relating to over seventy British and American authors - with commentary on content. In the Magill Bibliographies series.
Royal 8vo. (xvi),(282),(vi)pp. Original maroon cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine; top edge maroon; very faint bruise to fore-edge of upper cover, but a near fine copy.

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1981. First edition. An illustrated history, with much on Margery Allingham, Nicholas Blake, Agatha Christie, Amanda Cross, Mignon Eberhart, Anna Katherine Green, P.D.James, Carolyn Keene, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Patricia Wentworth, etc.
Demy 8vo. 252,[iv]pp. Original boards; very good in lightly sunned and just slightly creased dust-jacket.

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New York : Bramhall House, (1974 [but later]). A reprint of the original 1974 New York Graphic Society edition. A detailed listing of 6,221 items relating to Conan Doyle, Holmes and Watson - the individual tales, the collected tales, selections, collected editions, braille editions, shorthand editions, apocrypha, manuscripts, translations, writings about the writings, sherlockians and the societies, memorials and mementoes, games and competitions, actors, performances, recordings, parodies, pastiches, etc.
Royal 4to. (xvi),526,[ii]pp. Illustrations. Facsimiles. Portaits. Map. Original quarter cloth; mild spotting of top edge, but a very good copy in a just lightly used dust-jacket.

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London : Lemon Tress Press, 1975. First edition. A Keating essay on the Golden Age of detective fiction, with a guide to the major authors, potted biographies, etc., delightfully illustrated with period illustrations.
Post 8vo. (64)pp. Illustrations. Original pink laminated boards, lettered in black and white; lightly sunned, but a very good copy.

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London : British Broadcasting Corporation, (1978). First edition: wraps issue. Illustrated essays by Reginald Hill, P.D.James, Keating himself, Troy Kennedy Martin, Maurice Richardson, Julian Symons and Colin Watson, with linking material by Mike Pavett.
Crown 4to. 160pp. Illustrations throughout. Original pale cream wraps, printed in black, red and green; lightly bowed and a touch sunned, but a nice copy.

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London : Windward, (1982). First edition. Essays on Crime Fiction and Its Categories by Michael Gilbert, Reginald Hill, H.R.F.Keating himself, Jessica Mann, Hillary Waugh, and others - on How I Write My Books by Eric Ambler, Len Deighton, Stanley Ellin, Patricia Highsmith, P.D.James, Keating again, and others, with a consumers' guide, etc.
Medium 8vo. 320pp. Numerous illustrations. Original ivory boards, lettered on spine in red; very good in the original colour-printed Roger Pring dust-jacket - a little sunned at spine.

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Newton Abbot : David & Charles, (1981). First edition. A general survey, with specific individual chapters on Margery Allingham, Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers and Josephine Tey, bibliographies, etc.
Demy 8vo. 256pp. Original boards, a very good, sound and clean copy in a just faintly sunned dust-jacket.

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Cambridge : Harvard University Press, (1976). Third printing of the original 1976 edition. A study of the early fictional detectives - with much on Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Emile Gaboriau, William Godwin, Edgar Allan Poe, Eugène-Francois Vidocq, etc.
Royal 8vo. (xiv),194pp. Illustrations. Original cloth; very good indeed.

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London : Studio Vista, (1972). First edition. A well-illustrated survey - with chapters on the historical background; the father of the detective story (Edgar Allan Poe); the evolution of the roman policier; the early Victorians; Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins; the hansom cab era; the immortals of Baker Street; after Holmes; the lady sleuths; the modern writers; collecting first editions, etc. Photographs by Gabriel Monro.
Royal 4to. (144)pp. Colour plates. Illustrations. Original cloth; top edge spotted, but a very good copy in a just lightly sunned dust-jacket.

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London : Hammond, Hammond & Co., (1954). First British edition. An interesting guide to literary craftsmanship - with chapters on clues, suspense, taboos, plotting, etc. With an introduction by Maurice Richardson.
Crown 8vo. xviii,(172),[ii]pp. Original boards; very good in a very lightly used and jsut slightly nicked dust-jacket.

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London : Stanley Paul & Co., (1953). First edition. With much on John Dickson Carr, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Freeman Wills Crofts, Mignon Eberhart, Austin Freeman, Erle Stanley Gardner, Dashiell Hammett, C. Daly King, A.E.W.Mason, Ellery Queen, Mary Roberts Rinehart, etc. With a foreword by A. Beverley Baxter.
Demy 8vo. 200pp. Original boards; neat inscription on front free endpaper, but a very good copy indeed, in a just faintly creased dust-jacket.

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London : Cambridge University Press for the National Book League, 1958. Second edition: a much expanded version of the original 1949 publication of similar title. A reader's guide, with an annotated reading list of the most important titles, etc.
Crown 8vo. 32pp. Original stapled wraps; staples rusted; a little creased; some annotation to title-page; a serviceable copy of a fragile production.

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Newton Abbot & North Pomfret : David & Charles, (1980). First edition. With much on H.C.Bailey, Anthony Berkeley, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens, Emile Gaboriau, James McGovan, Edgar Allan Poe, Dorothy L. Sayers, etc.
Demy 8vo. (352)pp. Original boards; a very good, sharp and clean copy in the dust-jacket.

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London : Longmans, Green & Co., 1962. First edition. A brief history and guide in the British Council "Writers and Their Work" series. With a select bibliography.
Demy 8vo. 48pp. Portrait plates. Original yellow-green stapled wraps, printed in red and black; a touch sunned; one leaf very slightly creased, but a very good copy.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1972). First edition of this classic study of the form - with much on Margery Allingham, Eric Ambler, Anthony Berkeley, John Dickson Carr, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Wilkie Collins, R. Austin Freeman, Dashiell Hammett, and many more.
Demy 8vo. 254,[ii]pp. Original red cloth, lettered on spine in gilt; a very good and bright copy in the original red, white and black dust-jacket - just faintly rubbed.

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Harmondsworth : Viking, (1985). Second edition: an extensively revised and augmented version of the original 1972 classic study of the genre.
Demy 8vo. (262),[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered on spine in metallic red; very good indeed in the original black, red and white dust-jacket, just faintly sunned.

£15

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New York : Mysterious Press, (1993). Third American edition: a revised and augmented version of the original 1972 classic study of the genre, adding an extensive 36pp "Postcript for the Nineties".
Demy 8vo. [xiv],(350),[iv]pp. Original boards; just very slightly bruised, but a very good copy in a just lightly used and slightly nicked dust-jacket.

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London : Michael Joseph, (1957). Second edition. The first appearance of this revised and updated version of Turner's 1948 classic refresher course in popular literature for boys - from the bloods and penny-dreadfuls on. This revised edition includes fresh material on the American dime novel.
Post 8vo. (278),[ii]pp. Illustrations. Original cloth gilt; endpapers slightly tanned; a few slight creases, but a very good copy in the original Broom Lynne dust-jacket - just lightly used, slightly marked and a little tanned.

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London : Michael Joseph, (1975). Third edition. The first appearance of this revised and updated version of Turner's 1948 classic refresher course in popular literature for boys - from the bloods and penny-dreadfuls on. This revised edition includes fresh material taking the saga to the age of the super-hero.
Post 8vo. (280)pp. Illustrations. Original boards; a very good copy in the original Broom Lynne dust-jacket - price-clipped, but otherwise very good.

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London : Eyre Methuen, (1979). Second edition: a slightly revised version of Watson's interesting 1971 study of the crime story as the mirror of its times and social attitudes.
Demy 8vo. 256pp. Illustrations. Original pale mauve boards, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; very good in the original Norman Mansbridge dust-jacket - a design in cream, red, yellow, black and white - very good and unworn.

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