Adventure Fiction: 6 works

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Лот 302 | Adventure Fiction: 6 works
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£ 1 000 – 1 500
A group of six volumes, comprising:

Sydney PARKMAN (1895-1995). Ship Ashore. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1936.
First edition, presentation copy, of a science fiction adventure novel set off the coast of Borneo. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in black, top edge stained blue (slightly cocked); original price-clipped dust-jacket and Daily Mail wrap-around band (backstrip with a small nick and creasing to ends, verso of backstrip with some staining or glue residue, wrap-around with sunned backstrip and small closed tear). Provenance: W. S. Smart (authorial presentation inscription to title).

— Night-Action. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1936.
First edition, presentation copy. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in black, top edge stained blue (extremities lightly rubbed); original price-clipped dust-jacket (some creasing and rubbing to edges, ends of backstrip worn, two small closed tears to lower edge of upper and lower panel, verso of backstrip with some staining or glue residue). Provenance: Bill Smart (authorial presentation inscription to title).

SAPPER [Herman Cyril McNeile] (1888-1937). Bulldog Drummond at Bay. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1935.
First edition. Octavo. Four leaves of publisher’s ads at end. Original blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in black (spine very slightly sunned, faint wear); original dust-jacket priced at 7/6 (lower panel lightly marked, small tear to top edge of upper panel and a few further tiny closed tears along bottom edge).

McLAREN, Jack (1884-1954). The Crystal Skull. London: Philip Allan, 1936.
First edition in the rare dust-jacket. Octavo. (Light spotting to final few leaves and foredge.) Original blue cloth, spine lettered in black; original dust-jacket priced at 3/6 (lower panel lightly soiled, light edge wear and minor nicks, tear to lower edge of upper panel partially repaired on verso with tape).

MASON, A. E. W. (1865-1948). Musk & Amber. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1942.
First edition of Mason’s finest work, signed by the author. Octavo. (Light spotting to foredge.) Original blue cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in black (extremities lightly rubbed); original dust-jacket designed by Bip Pares and priced at 8/6 (creased and rubbed, lower panel lightly soiled, nicks to ends of backstrip and short tear to one fold). Provenance: Randle Leslie Abbott (bookplate to front pastedown).

FAIRLIE, Gerard (1899-1983). They Found Each Other. London: Hodder and Stoughton Limited, 1946.
First edition. Octavo. Original red boards, spine and upper cover lettered in black (extremities lightly rubbed); original dust-jacket by Bip Pares priced at 8/6 (lightly worn and marked).

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