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The Counterfeit Eye – Erle Stanley Gardner – First Edition 1935

A first edition from the esteemed Erle Stanley Gardner. Published by Grosset & Dulap, New York in 1935. Octavo, 304 pages, dust jacket edge worn otherwise a very nice copy.

Pete Brunold had not one artificial eye but six. It was the bloodshot number, for use the morning after that was stolen – Someone is going to try to frame me …. And they did!

A gripping Perry Mason story – hold on to your false eyes!

1935 Perry Mason First

$60.00

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The Shorn Lamb – William Locke – First edition 1930

Published by Dodd, Mead etc., New York in 1930. Octavo, 331 pages, a little age otherwise a super copy in a classic dust jacket albeit chipped to top. Protected in Brodart.

A classic art deco period novel by the prolific and brilliant writer William Locke. Our “shorn lamb” is near the end of his road when good fortune shines down on him. A case of mistaken identity helps along with the skill of a master conjurer. Plot with humour.

1930 First Edition about improved circumstances!

$60.00

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The Four Stragglers [Thriller] – Frank Packard – First Edition 1923

Published by Burt, New York in 1923. Octavo, 303 pages, dust jacket art by A D Rahn. Light jacket creasing, otherwise, a super copy.

Frank Packard was a prolific Canadian writer who started off as an engineer on the railroads. Several of his books became movies.

Captain Francis Newcombe (also known as Shadow Varne) and three other crooks lead a complex and criminally exciting path from the London underworld to the USA.

Shadow plots within plots

$50.00

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The Rueful Mating – G.B. Stern – First Edition 1932

A First Edition 1932 published by Knopf New York as one of their Borzoi Books.

Octavo, 567 pages. A little age brought about by the uncut edges. The dust jacket is a collectable piece of art deco imagery along with the unique Borzoi end papers.

A romance of Shakespearean proportions – some trials and tribulations along the way – ending in laughter and the wrong bed.

Art Deco Romance.

$50.00

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Rainbow Round My Shoulder [The Blue Trail of the Black Ulysses] – Howard Odum – 1928

With special illustrations by Harry Knight.

The scarce Grosset & Dunlap dated 1928. Large octavo, 323 pages. A couple of nicks to the dust jacket, otherwise a very good copy

An African American tells of his wanderings through 40 States over 20 years. Written in the vernacular. Rare, unusual maybe of or maybe ahead of its time up to interpretation.

1928 edition thought provoking

$60.00

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The Hunted – Albert Guerard – First Edition 1944

First Edition published by Alfred Knopf, New York in 1944. Octavo, 288 pages. Dust jacket design by Arthur Hawkins. A very good if not fine copy.

Albert Guerard was in the US Army when this book was published. It was his second novel of the published in his lifetime. He also published many works on literary criticism. Educated at Stanford and Harvard he would go on to be Professor of Literature at Stanford after the whole and was highly influential in developing the Stanford program in modern writing. His father also an author held the same position.

the author was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1956 and received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Literature in 1964.

The Hunted is a physiological thriller. Claire Harcha, a singing waitress of New England marries a Cambridge English graduate (an odd ball). She becomes ostracised from the fraternity group and sympathetic to a hunted violent outlaw “Bomber”.

First edition 1944 – distinguished author.

$70.00

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