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London : Victor Gollancz, 1944. First edition. His rare first book - later published in the USA as "Obsequies at Oxford". Gervase Fen making his first appearance with some theatrical types in wartime Oxford.
Crown 8vo. (160)pp. Plan. Bound, without half-title, in an elegant recent half green morocco, banded and gilt; top edge gilt; original cloth backstrip preserved at rear; wartime paper lightly tanned, but otherwise a very good copy in an attractive binding.

£250

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1946. First edition. Gervase Fen and an Oxford mystery - dedicated to Philip Larkin (who makes a brief appearance on p.107).
Crown 8vo. (152)pp. Plan. Original blue cloth, lettered up spine in gilt; spine lightly sunned and a touch dull; a few minor marks and spots, but a very good and sound copy. Barzun & Taylor 968. Hubin p.99.

£50

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1947. First edition. "There are few creatures more stupid than the average singer ..." - murder, music and Gervase Fen. Later published in the USA as "Dead and Dumb".
Crown 8vo. (190),[ii]pp. Original blue cloth, lettered up spine in gilt; spine faded; a few leaves lightly creased, but a good, sound and clean copy. Hubin p.99.

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1948. First edition. The sixth of the Gervase Fen series.
Crown 8vo. (192)pp. Original blue cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; lightly rubbed and a little bruised; spine lettering faded away; a few spots, mainly to edges and endpapers; a good and sound copy. Contemporary inscription on front free endpaper. Barzun & Taylor 962. Hubin p.99.

£25

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London : Faber & Faber, (1973). First edition. A selection of nine stylish stories - from Michael Arlen (The Smell in the Library), Thomas Burke, John Keir Cross, Stanley Ellin, L. P. Hartley, W. F. Harvey, Rudyard Kipling, Oliver Onions and Evelyn Waugh. Chosen and introduced by Edmund Crispin.
Post 8vo. 218,[vi]pp. Original blue boards, ruled and lettered across spine in gilt; a very good, bright and clean copy in the original K. H. Bayat dust-jacket (a photographic design in shades of blue) - price-clipped by the publisher and overprinted with a revised price - with just the merest hint of rubbing, but also very good indeed.

£20

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1979. First edition. A posthumously published collection, with a foreword by Philip Larkin.
Post 8vo. 160pp. Original red boards, ruled and lettered on spine in gilt; very good indeed in the Gollancz yellow dust-jacket, printed in magenta and black, price-clipped by the publisher, and with a revised price over-sticker. Barzun & Taylor 3722. Hubin p.99.

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