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London : for the Crime Book Society by Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1946]. First edition. Her first novel - and the first appearance of Johnny DuVivien - a murder mystery among the Wimbledon and tennis set.
Crown 8vo. 168pp. Original purple cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in silver; a hint of sunning at tips; a few slight edge and endpaper-spots; blank corner missing from one leaf; a few faint marks; contemporary inscription; overall still a very good copy in the original dust-jacket - a typographic design in yellow, purple and white - price-clipped and a little worn, torn, faded and repaired, and with a cup-mark on lower panel. Hubin p.375.

£100

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1950). First edition. A richly camp and comic Miriam Birdseye mystery set in Brunton-on-Sea.
Crown 8vo. 224pp. Original red boards, lettered across spine in black; a few slight spots, but a very good copy in the original pictorial dust-jacket - a design in pink, green, yellow, blue, black and white - price-clipped and lightly sunned, but with just a few short repaired tears, a handful of tiny nicks and a very shallow chip. Hubin p.375.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), [1950]. First edition. Her fifth murder mystery - pantomime, drunken ballerina, northern industrial city, Natasha DuVivien, Miriam Birdseye.
Crown 8vo. (240)pp. Endpaper plans in green. Original black cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in silver; a few faint marks, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original Farnhill dust-jacket - a design in pink, purple, olive, brown and black on white - the jacket worn, faded, slightly torn, lightly chipped, repaired and lacking a section approx. 2cm x 5cm on lower panel. Hubin p.375.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1951). First edition. Inscribed and signed by Nancy Spain in pencil on the dedication page.
Crown 8vo. 208pp. Endpaper plans by Chadwick. Original blue cloth, blocked and lettered across spine in silver; worn and faded - the cloth slightly split along lower hinge; edges much spotted; an indifferent copy - but signed and scarce in any condition. Hubin p.375.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1951). First edition. Miriam Birdseye and Natasha DuVivien - pleasure cruise, heroin smuggling, and the usual camp and comic cast.
Crown 8vo. 208pp. Endpaper plans by Chadwick. Original blue cloth, blocked and lettered on spine in silver; a hunt of sunning to tips; fore-edge unevenly splash-marked, but otherwise very good in the original dust-jacket - a Farnhill design - red, black, pink and white - much worn, torn and extensively repaired, with a missing letter from the spine neatly restored in manuscript. Hubin p.375.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1952). First edition. Miriam Birdseye and Natasha DuVivien - writers and publishers on holiday - and murder.
Crown 8vo. 224pp. Endpaper plans by Peter Chadwick. Original black cloth, lettered across spine in gilt; just a touch bruised; slight press crease to one leaf; a very good, crisp and sound copy in the original pink, blue, black and white dust-jacket - a little worn and nicked, price-clipped and a little sunned. Hubin p.375.

£40

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1955). First edition. The last of her crime novels.
Crown 8vo. 216pp. Original black boards, ruled, blocked and lettered across spine in yellow; a little bruised; some minor marking and spotting; slight tear to one leaf; small date stamp on rear endpaper, but a very good copy in the original black, white, yellow and red dust-jacket - just lightly rubbed and slightly nicked. Hubin p.375.

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London : Hutchinson & Co., (1956). First edition. Signed by Nancy Spain on the front free endpaper.
Demy 8vo. [iv],264pp. Plates. Portraits. Errata slip. Original blue boards, lettered across spine in gilt; a little dulled and slightly marked; decorative label (by D.W.May) and occasional stamps of the Goodmayes Hospital Library; a good and sound copy.

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London : Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers), (1959). First edition : in the primary binding of red-pink boards. Inscribed by Nancy Spain on the title-page "with much gratitude and admiration" to Dodie Smith [Doris Gladys Smith (1896-1990), author of "I Capture the Castle", "The Hundred and One Dalmatians", etc].
Post 8vo. (96)pp. Illustrations, some printed in red, by Pamela Kington. Pictorial endpapers. Original red-pink boards, blocked and lettered on spine in yellow; a few very faint marks, but a very good bright and sound copy in the original Pamela Kington dust-jacket - a design in yellow, red, turquoise and white - just very lightly used and a touch darkened.

£75

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