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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1935]. First edition. An early espionage novel set in Istanbul - filmed in 1936 as "The Secret of Stamboul" with James Mason and Valerie Hobson.
Crown 8vo. 298,[vi] + 40pp - the advertisements dated Summer 1935. Endpaper maps designed by Joan and Dennis Wheatley, with Diana Younger. Original red cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in black; very faint bruising to central spine and lower edges; slight spotting of edges; but overall an exceptionally bright and sound copy in the original Abbey dust-jacket - a pictorial design lettered in blue, white and black - just faintly bruised, very slightly rubbed and with a few tiny nicks, but in very good state indeed.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1938]. First edition. Wheatley's second lost world novel - filmed in 1968 as "The Lost Continent".
Crown 8vo. 408,[viii] + 24pp. Endpaper maps by Diana Younger. Original black cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in gilt; slight spotting of edges and endpapers, but a very good, bright and sharp copy in the original Diana Younger dust-jacket - a striking design in blues, greens and yellow - with just a hint of rubbing and creasing but still in exceptional condition.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1941]. First edition. The second of the Julian Day trilogy, set in wartime Alexandria and Greece - "'Between your body and his', the old Arab woman told the lovely Greek-Italian girl, Daphnis, 'lies the Sword of Fate'".
Crown 8vo. 292,xii pp. Endpaper maps. Original dark purple cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in gilt; just a hint of bruising; a few faint edge-marks and spots; mild tanning to text, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original Abbey dust-jacket - a pictorial design lettered in red, blue, cerise and black - very lightly used with a few faint nicks, but complete, clean and in very good state.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1942]. First edition. Gregory Sallust in Vichy France.
Crown 8vo. (248)pp. Endpaper maps of Paris. Original black cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in gilt; just a touch bruised; slight spotting of edges, but a very good and sound copy in the original Abbey dust-jacket - a pictorial design (Eiffel Tower, searchlights, Sallust, Madeleine Lavalliere) lettered in black, white, cerise, green and yellow - lightly worn, slightly nicked, and a touch soiled, with a slight crease to the inner flap, but still complete and in very good order for a fragile wartime publication.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1948]. First edition.
Post 8vo. (292)pp. Original black cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in gilt; top edge lightly spotted, but a very good and sound copy in the original colour-printed dust-jacket - a striking design, unsigned but surely by Frank Papé - just lightly used and faintly creased, but in very good state.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1953). First edition. The first of the two Molly Fountain occult novels - the action moving from the Essex marshes to the Riviera, with satanic priest, virgin sacrifice, etc. Filmed in 1975 with Christopher Lee, etc.
Crown 8vo. (384)pp. Endpaper maps. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; just a hint of rubbing, but a very good, bright and fresh copy in the striking Frank Papé dust-jacket - with just the merest hint of rubbing, but in very good condition indeed.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1960). First edition. "No one unprepared to acquiesce in appalling blasphemies and take part in the sexual rites by which Satanists obtain their occult power could possibly hope to penetrate a Satanic circle. In this story a man and a woman determine to pay that price to solve a foul and brutal murder".
Post 8vo. (448)pp. Original pictorial boards - moon and clouds in grey on a black ground, blocked in gilt and lettered in red and gilt across spine; a very good, clean and sound copy in the original pictorial Sax dust-jacket - ruined chapel by moonlight with bats, the lettering in orange and white - just a little rubbed, slightly scuffed and with faint creasing to lower panel.

£50

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1973). First edition. A Roger Brook tale - Katie O'Brien, French spy and Irish Witch; the Hell Fire Club; the retreat from Moscow; the 1812 war with the USA; Red Indians; Wellington and war in the Peninsula; Walpurgis Night in the Wicklow Mountains - "Roger Brook is a British secret agent on a scale which makes James Bond appear to be gurgling in his playpen" (George Fraser).
Post 8vo (21cm). 446,[ii]pp. Endpaper maps. Original red-black weave boards, ruled in black and lettered in gilt; a few slight edge-spots, but a very good copy in the Val Biro Black Mass dust-jacket - also very good, with just the faintest hint of rubbing.

£40

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