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Biggles Flies Again – Captain W.E. Johns

Published by Dean, London – in arrangement with Thames, no date but 1960’s.

Octavo, 1183 pages, one pen mark on end papers, pages somewhat browned as use with this edition. Dust jacket good all else good to better.

The swamps of British Guiana (British of course). An Arabian island and a Russian Agent

Biggles Again – of course!

$25.00

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The Box with Broken Seals – E Phillips Oppenheim -1920

A 1920 edition published by A L Burt, New York having been first issued the year before. Very difficult to find in its dust jacket and a great example.

Octavo, 300 pages, plus publisher’s catalogue.

Set against the backdrop of WWI secret despatches have gone missing. English Secret Service operative James Crawshay is on the job with American Sam Hobson tagging along. A fast moving dangerous plot.

The fate of WWI is up for grabs.

$80.00

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What Happened to Forester – E Phillips Oppenheim – Scarce First Edition 1930

A first edition published by Little Brown, Boston in 1930.

Octavo, 260 pages, in better than very good condition – still with its original wrap around yellow promotional slip.

A series of ten interconnecting short stories about the strange goings on concerning the disappearance of Major Andrew Forester retired from the army. A dashing chap who likes adventure and skirts the law.

Lots of conspiracy and dark characters.

Scarce and well presented Oppenheim

$120.00

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Up the Ladder of Gold – E Phillips Oppenheim – 1931

A first US edition published by Little Brown, Boston in 1931 one year after the UK First.

Dedicated to P.G. Wodehouse – “To my friend “Plum” Wodehouse – who tells me what I can scarcely believe, that he enjoys my stories as much as I do his”.

Octavo, 312 pages, overall a very good copy albeit a couple of edge chips and some repair and age to the dust jacket.

“The amazing story of the man who made war impossible” Protagonist Warren Rand is a mysterious businessman of dimensions to more than rival Murdoch. He controls newsprint, dominates stock markets and world economies … buys more gold than they can dig up … until his real purpose is revealed!

Oppenheim with an underlying message that resonates today

$80.00

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The Mardi Gras [New Orleans] Murders – Bristow and Manning – First edition 1932

First edition of this unusual murder mystery published by The Mystery League, New York and London in 1932.

Octavo, 286 pages, very good condition albeit obvious chips to rare dust jacket designed by Gene.

The Society dedicated to Dis – the Greek God of the Inferno are at the heart of murder at the New Orleans Mardi Gras. The gorgeous Cynthia Fontenay holds an elaborate costumed ball for Society members – everyone wears the satanic mask and scarlet lined black robe. Looks like number 47 had a bit of bad luck. The problem for the detectives is that there are fifty suspects.

1932 First – Mardi Gras in New Orleans – not for the faint hearted

$50.00

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The Bandit “El Caballero” – Leslie Charteris

A 1952 edition of an early Leslie Charteris thriller published by Ward Lock, London.

Octavo, 255 pages, super dust jacket albeit, roughed at top and edge, forgive it for its rarity.

Charteris had not really got into his “Saint” stride before this book which is centres on a South American modern-day bandit – Ramon Francisco De Castilla Y Espronceda also known as “El Caballero” … “The Knight”. To complicate things further Scotland Yard knew him as “The Cat” …. After his prowling habit.

Flashy crime, besotted entanglements ensue.

Charteris in the same world but with different characters.

$50.00

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