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Sorry You’ve Been Troubled – Peter Cheyney – 1955 Edition

A very nice example of the 1955 edition of this Collins published Murder Mystery novel by the respected Cheyney.

Octavo, 192 pages, great dust jacket design, very good condition.

Slim Callaghan of Callaghan Investigation [a good start] is a world-famous detective and a connoisseur of beautiful women. Admiral Gardell is found dead – is it suicide? – the lovely niece and the even lovelier daughter are interviewed and that’s enough to change Slim’s mind and the gears click into place …

Classic period crime from Cheyney.

The Time is 4.30am and it is Chipley Grange …

$35.00

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Gulf Coast Stories – Erskine Caldwell – First edition

First Australian edition published by Heinemann, Melbourne, London etc in 1957.

Octavo, 222 pages with 21 short stories all relating to the strip of Coast with New Orleans at the centre. Super mix of comedies and tragedies with the special character of the region.

Erskine Calder was already a distinguished author, identified by his outstanding novel “Tobacco Road”.

A very good copy in a nice bright dust jacket albeit some minor losses.

First Edition of Calder’s Collectable Stories

$35.00

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Biggles Air Detective – Captain Johns

Stolen Aircraft, “Black Sheep”, the case of the Wounded Agent … a Biggles shorter story delight, seven in all.

Published by Dean & Son a 1960’s reissue of an early Biggles collection. Octavo, 151 pages, toned evenly, a little chipped to jacket to jacket still a good copy.

Biggles packed with thrills

$25.00

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Biggles Pioneer Air Fighter – Captain Johns

An early 1960’s edition published by Dean & Son, London. Octavo, 184 pages a pretty good clean copy

Super Biggles collection of short stories with glossary of chap’s terms for those that haven’t been in the RAF

Biggles explained and entertaining

$30.00

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A Summer in The Twenties – Peter Dickinson – First US Edition

First US edition published by Pantheon, New York in 1981. Octavo, 254 pages, hint of edge age but really a very nice copy in a delightful dust jacket designed by Fred Marcellino.

Set in the 1920’s (hopefully obviously) Toma well to do athletic type sees his life change and he ends up as a stand in train driver during the General Strike in England. Torn between loves and class divides his path gets rather twisted. A novel of suspense and adventure it is.

The author had an editorial role at The Punch for seventeen years before taking up his own pen – he never looks back and won several important awards.

Train drivers in the thick of it during the 1920’s

$25.00

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Clochemerle Les Bains – Gabriel Chevallier – First UK Edition 1964

A super copy of this fun book translated by Xan Fielding and published by Secker & Warburg, Lonon in 1964. Thick octavo, 448 pages, lively dust jacket designed by A Games.

Not sure what age you have to be to remember the riotous naughty comedy series about the characters and goings on in this idyllic French village. Well written but with a wit beyond and a good dousing of hanky-panky, maybe not entirely in fitting with now norms (oh dreary me). Regardless, anyone with warm blood is likely to enjoy until the end and pine a little for French wine and real cheese.

Clochemerle where lives were lived to the full and nobody got injured – well permanently injured

$35.00

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