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Garden City : Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1942. First edition. An uncommon early Manning Coles set in wartime England - not published in the UK.
Post 8vo. (x),(276),[ii]pp. Original mauve-red cloth, ruled and lettered across spine in black; mild tanning of endpapers; erasure from front endpaper; slight discolouration of outer edges of last few leaves, but a very good copy in the original dust-jacket - a pictorial design in red, white and blue - somewhat worn, torn, chipped and repaired, but substantially complete and not unattractive.

£50

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1943). First edition.
Crown 8vo. 288pp. Original pale blue cloth, lettered across spine in black; very lightly rubbed; slight spotting of spine and edges; mild bruising to corners, but a very good and sound copy of a difficult early title. Hubin p.88.

£25

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1949). First edition.
Crown 8vo. (224)pp. Original straw-coloured cloth, lettered across upper cover in red, ruled, blocked and lettered in red on spine; spine, edges and endpapers a little spotted, but a good and sound copy in the original Bip Pares dust-jacket - a design in blue, black, red and white - a little worn, lightly sunned and a little chipped, with some repair at head. Hubin p.87.

£25

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1950). First British edition. Tommy Hambledon at large.
Crown 8vo. 252,[iv]pp. Original bright blue cloth, lettered across upper cover in black, ruled, blocked and lettered across spine in black; slight abrasion to lower edge of upper cover, but a very good, bright and clean copy in the original blue, black, red and white dust-jacket - very lightly worn and just a little nicked. Hubin p.87.

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1954). First edition. The first of the novels featuring Charles and James Latimer (and the monkey) - "certainly different from the miscellany of tourists visiting Paris in 1953, for they were ghosts, whose sociable and impulsive natures had lost nothing since the days of 1870 ...". Published in the USA the same year under the more familiar "Manning Coles" pseudonym.
Crown 8vo. (190),[ii]pp. Original dark red boards, ruled and lettered across spine in black; some spotting, mainly of edges, but a very good copy in the original pictorial dust-jacket, the principal lettering in yellow and pale blue - a little rubbed, sunned and very slightly chipped. Hubin p.156.

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1956). First edition. A Tommy Hambledon adventure en route to Basle.
Crown 8vo. (192)pp. Original burgundy boards, blocked and lettered across spine in gilt; very good indeed in the original colour-printed dust-jacket (the principal lettering in yellow and white) - very lightly used, a little spotted down spine, and with a single short nick. Hubin p.87.

£15

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1957). First British edition.
Crown 8vo. 190,[ii]pp. Original dark green boards, ruled and lettered across spine in gilt; a few faint marks, but a very good copy in the original colour-printed dust-jacket, the principal lettering in yellow and white - a touch sunned, slightly nicked and just lightly worn at extremities. Hubin p.156.

£40

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, (1958). First edition. A Cold War thriller with Tommy Hambledon.
Crown 8vo. (224)pp. Original blue boards, ruled, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; a hint of bruising; but a very good copy in the original pictorial dust-jacket - a design in blue, red, black and pale lilac - just very lightly used, a touch sunned and lightly fingered on lower panel. Contemporary (1959) ownership inscription of A. McKisach crossed through on front endpaper. Hubin p.87.

£15

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