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Post by dem bones on Jan 20, 2019 21:30:41 GMT
Copped for £1 on Sclater Street this morning. Bruce Graeme (Graham Montague Jeffries) - Blackshirt the Adventurer! (n.d. [1940's?]: originally Hutchinson, 1936) No blurb: Adventures of Richard Verrell, war hero, successful crime novelist, and incorrigible gentleman burglar. Alias apparently refers to his favoured apparel and not his political leanings. See George Simmers, "Is Blackshirt a Fascist?" Great War Fiction |
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Post by ripper on Feb 23, 2019 10:40:26 GMT
I can't hear 'black shirt' without thinking of P.G. Wodehouse's parady of the 'black shorts' led by Roderick Spode in the Bertie Wooster stories and secretly a designer of ladies' lingerie.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 23, 2019 11:18:06 GMT
Have since landed another of these Hutchinson University Library titles from same Sclater Street trader (lovely lady she is too; trades from back of a removal van). Russell Thorndyke - The Shadow Of Dr. Syn (Rich & Cowan, n.d.) "Master of the macabre"? F. Marsh esq. should sue. Again undated, no blurb, but a crafty google reveals this for a Syn adventure set during the French Revolution. |
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Post by helrunar on Feb 24, 2019 0:33:42 GMT
I know I'm getting old and rather loopy, but that portrait of Dr Syn really bears a striking resemblance, for this viewer, to that eminent musical authority and sometime concert hall artiste, Dr Evadne Hinge.
Wonderful find, in any event! Thanks for the scan!
cheers, H.
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Post by Durtal1963 on Feb 24, 2019 10:05:56 GMT
Some of the Blackshirt books - not sure about this one - were republished in the 1970s by Tom Stacey Reprints. TSRs were a staple of the public library system at that time. I still have one of two which I've acquired over the years - mostly Golden Age thrillers with a supernatural element (a topic which perhaps deserves its own thread) such as Francis Gerrard's 'Secret Sceptre', weird historical novels like Rider Haggard's 'Red Eve' and rare fantasies like John Lambourne's 'The Kingdom That Was'.
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Post by helrunar on Feb 24, 2019 16:24:10 GMT
I think Tom Stacey did some Sax Rohmer titles, too. I may have seen one of the books once--nice work, as I recall.
H.
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Post by cromagnonman on Feb 24, 2019 18:29:22 GMT
I think Tom Stacey did some Sax Rohmer titles, too. I may have seen one of the books once--nice work, as I recall. H. certainly. And they did Merritt also. I've only got a couple of Staceys but they are nice books. |
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Post by cromagnonman on Feb 24, 2019 18:59:05 GMT
I think Tom Stacey did some Sax Rohmer titles, too. I may have seen one of the books once--nice work, as I recall. H. certainly. And they did Merritt also. I've only got a couple of Staceys but they are nice books. Turns out I have three actually; had forgotten THE LOST STRADIVARIUS was part of that set. Looking into it further Steve, it seems Stacey issued at least five further Rohmer titles plus the Ash bio: THE GOLDEN SCORPION, THE MYSTERY OF DR FU-MANCHU, THE SI-FAN MYSTERIES, THE DEVIL DOCTOR and WRATH OF FU-MANCHU.
The real jewel in the Stacey set appears to be the Richard Dalby edited anthology THE SORCERESS IN STAINED GLASS. One for you to comment upon there I think, Rosemary. |
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Post by helrunar on Feb 25, 2019 3:41:41 GMT
Thanks, Richard. I used to own the original Tom Stacey edition of Sorceress in Stained Glass. One of many books I lost hold of long ago.
cheers, Steve
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Post by Michael Connolly on Feb 25, 2019 12:39:47 GMT
Thanks, Richard. I used to own the original Tom Stacey edition of Sorceress in Stained Glass. One of many books I lost hold of long ago. cheers, Steve My copy of The Sorceress in Stained Glass is signed by Richard Dalby.  |
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