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London : Victor Gollancz, 1962. First edition. A review copy, with the publisher's slip loosely inserted.
Crown 8vo. 208pp. Original red boards, lettered on spine in gilt; a hint of bruising; very mild spotting of top edge, but a very good copy in the Gollancz yellow dust-jacket, printed in magenta and black, lightly worn at head, and with a single short tear on lower panel. Hubin p.226.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1964). First edition. The uncommon first Inspector Ghote novel.
Crown 8vo. 256pp. Original red boards, partly patterned in black, blocked and lettered across spine in gilt; slight spotting of edges, but a nice, bright copy in a lightly worn and slightly nicked dust-jacket - a typographic design in pink, white and black. Hubin p.226.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1968). First edition. Ghote comes to London.
Post 8vo. 224pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; faintest hint of spotting to top edge, but very good indeed in the original colour-printed Brian Roll dust-jacket - lettered in black and bright blue. Hubin p.226.

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London : Collins for The Crime Club, (1969). First edition.
Post 8vo. 224pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered across spine in gilt; slight spotting of top edge, but a very good, sound and unworn copy in a just lightly sunned and very lightly used dust-jacket - a colour-printed design by Brian Roll, lettered in red and black. Hubin p.226.

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London : William Collins Sons & Co. (The Crime Club), (1971). First edition.
Post 8vo. 222pp. Original red boards, blocked and lettered across spine in gilt; very slightly bruised; slight spotting of top edge; but a very good copy in the original Kenneth Farnhill dust-jacket - a design in black, red and green on white - slightly nicked. Barzun & Taylor 1981. Hubin p.226.

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London : Lemon Tress Press, 1975. First edition. Keating on the golden age of detective fiction, with a guide to the major authors, potted biographies, etc., delightfully illustrated with period illustrations.
Post 8vo (21cm). (64)pp. Illustrations. Original pink laminated boards, lettered in black and white; lightly sunned, but otherwise a very good copy.

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London : British Broadcasting Corporation, (1978). First edition : the wrappers 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 wrappers, printed in black, red and green; lightly bowed and a touch sunned, but a nice copy.

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Edinburgh : William Blackwood & Sons, 1979. The May 1979 issue of the magazine - with the first appearance of Keating's story "The Adventure of the Suffering Ruler". Also a poem from Stewart Conn, etc.
Royal 8vo. [iv],(369)-464pp. Original wrappers; very slightly bruised, but a very good 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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New York : St. Martin's Press, (1985). First American edition. Signed by H.R.F.Keating on the title-page.
Demy 8vo. [iv],220pp. Illustrations. Original black boards, lettered on spine in silver; slight erasure from front free endpaper; a very good copy in the original colour-printed Dee Designs dust-jacket - a little rubbed at extremities.

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