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London : William Heinemann, (1931). First edition. The Kentish novelist and historian's first novel. A publisher's presentation copy, with a Heinemann compliments slip loosely inserted.
Crown 8vo. [vi],322pp. Original red cloth, ruled and lettered on spine in gilt; publisher's device in blind on lower cover; mild bruise at head of spine, a handful of spots, but a very good, bright, clean and sound copy in the original dust-jacket - a design primarily in white, blue and red, with a colour-printed magnolia on the upper panel - the jacket very faintly rubbed and with a sprinkling of spots - but fresh and without a nick.

£100

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London : Constable & Co., (1939). First edition. "Old Miss Grierson had had her social flowering in the days when a man was a man and was properly rated as such by the ladies. In the year 1908, or thereabouts, one man, however weedy and inefficient, was considered the equal of at least three highly gifted and beautiful women ...".
Crown 8vo. [vi],(302)pp. Colour extra-title by Toby. Original light green cloth, ruled and lettered across spine in blue; mild tanning of endpapers; some spotting of edges, but a very good and bright copy. Hubin p.14.

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London : William Heinemann, (1951). First edition. Murder and mystery on Lake Como.
Crown 8vo. [iv],(260),[ii]pp. Original blue cloth, lettered across upper cover and spine in ice-blue; mild spotting of edges; endpapers faintly tanned, but a very good, fresh and sound copy in the original C. W. Bacon dust-jacket (a pictorial design in orange, green and black on white) - lightly sunned, and with just very minor wear and a single short nick on lower panel. Hubin p.14.

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London : William Heinemann, (1952). First British edition. Inscribed, signed and dated (1952) by Ralph Arnold. A stylish murder mystery with an English country-house setting from the writer-publisher.
Crown 8vo (19cm). [iv],(224)pp. Original black cloth, blocked and lettered across spine in gilt, blocked in blind on lower cover; gilt on spine faded; some spotting, mainly of edges; a good and sound copy in the dust-jacket - a pictorial design by C. W. Bacon in blue and black on white - price-clipped, lightly worn, with neatly repaired tears and mild discolouration on lower panel. Hubin p.14.

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London : John Murray, (1956). First edition. "In real life, publishers do not behave quite like this" disclaims the author - himself a publisher.
Crown 8vo. [iv],178,[ii]pp. Original green boards, lettered on spine in gilt; edges spotted, but a very good copy in the Brian Wildsmith dust-jacket (a pictorial design in pink, green and black on white), a touch sunned, price-clipped and with very minor wear.

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