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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1951). First edition. His scarce second book, later published in the USA as "Mr Blessington's Imperialist Plot" - "That Borshak should prove to be the notorious war-criminal and Nazi collaborator, Dr. Yelinsky, was most unfortunate for all concerned, especially for little Mr. Blessington of H. M. Treasury ...".
Crown 8vo. 254,[ii]pp. Original red-pink boards, lettered across upper cover and spine in black; just a hint of bruising, but a very good and sound copy.

£40

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London : Macmillan London, (1979). First edition. "The author apologises sincerely to Mr Frederick Forsyth for turning him into an unperson ...".
Post 8vo. (192)pp. Original brown boards, lettered on spine in silver; slight spotting of top edge, but a very good copy in the original Tony McSweeny pictorial dust-jacket - also very good. Hubin p.364.

£10

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1984. First edition. The first Celia Grant mystery - murder in the Home Counties, gardens, forged Dutch flower paintings, eccentric widow-cum-sleuth.
Post 8vo. (154)pp. Original green boards, lettered across spine in gilt; very slight bruising to tips; very mild spotting to top edge; a very good copy in the yellow dust-jacket, printed in green and black, slightly bruised, price-clipped, and with a slight vertical crease to spine. Barzun & Taylor 2984.

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1986. First edition. Signed by John Sherwood on the title-page. A Celia Grant murder-in-the-garden mystery - "but why are the famous borders designed by Gertrude Jekyll disfigured with plants she hated"?
Post 8vo. 186pp. Original red boards, lettered across spine in gilt; a very good, bright and clean copy, in the yellow dust-jacket, printed in magenta and black. Barzun & Taylor 2986.

£25

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1987. First edition. Signed by John Sherwood on the title-page. "Possibly the best of the Celia Grant stories" (Barzun & Taylor) - Glyndebourne, gardens, jet-set, Latin American politics.
Post 8vo. 206,[ii]pp. Original red boards, lettered on spine in gilt; very good iondeed in a very good dust-jacket - white printed in yellow, black and red. Barzun & Taylor 2983.

£20

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London : Victor Gollancz, 1988. First edition. Inscribed and signed by John Sherwood on the title-page. Celia Grant in Tuscany.
Post 8vo. 192pp. Original black boards, lettered on spine in gilt; very good in a just slightly creased dust-jacket - white overprinted in yellow, black and turquoise.

£20

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London : Macmillan London, (1989). First edition. Celia Grant - garden murder in claustrophobic village.
Post 8vo. (206),[ii]pp. Original red boards, lettered on spine in silver; very good in the original pictorial dust-jacket - also very good.

£15

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London : Macmillan London, (1990). First edition. Signed by John Sherwood on the title-page. A Celia Grant mystery - nothing what it seems in an Elizabethan garden.
Demy 8vo. (192)pp. Original green boards, lettered on spine in silver; very faint and narrow strip of fading at foot; text just a little browned; but still a very good copy in the original photographic Paul Grant dust-jacket - also very good.

£20

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London : Macmillan London, (1994). First edition. Academic disappears in the Loire Valley - Celia Grant investigates.
Demy 8vo. [iv],(204)pp. Original holly green boards, lettered on spine in gilt; very good indeed in the original pictorial dust-jacket - also very good.

£15

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Sutton : Severn House Publishers, (1996). First edition. A Celia Grant mystery - theft and murder at Winthrop Court.
Demy 8vo. [iv],186,[ii]pp. Original black boards, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; rear free endpaper and final blank slightly bruised, otherwise very good indeed in the photographic dust-jacket - fresh and unworn.

£20

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