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![THE EXPLOITS OF TOMMY HAMBLEDON: Drink to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, Alias Uncle Hugo. by Coles, Manning [pseudonym of Cyril H. Coles and Adelaide F. Manning]](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/52639---200.jpg?v=1519431445)
THE EXPLOITS OF TOMMY HAMBLEDON: Drink to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, Alias Uncle Hugo.
Edition: Book club edition.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, nd. (1959, c 1940, 1941 and 1952.) dj. Hardcover - Omnibus edition containing 3 classic Tony Hambledon spy adventures - Drink to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, and Alias Uncle Hugo. (The first one in the series, 'Drink to Yesterday' was a Haycroft-Queens Cornerstone.) A Crime Club selection. 480 pp. Dust jacket by Ronald Clyne.
Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket.
Book ID: 52639More details Price: $20.00 -
THE RIDDLE OF THE PURPLE EMPEROR.
Edition: Vintage reprint.
New York: McKinlay, Stone & Mackenzie (1919). Hardcover - One of several books put together after Hanshaw's death from Cleck short stories by his daughter Hazel and published as by Mary and Thomas. Cleck was Hanshaw's best known character, first known to the police as 'the Vanishing Cracksman's and after he goes straight and joins Scotland Yard himself, as the Man of Forty Faces. As J. Reginald Cox comments, "Read with the right approach, though, they can be enjoyable in spite of themselves." A title in the Scotland Yard Mystery Library. Glossy frontispiece, list of characters. x, 309 pp.
Condition: Very good in dark red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine (lettering somewhat dullled)
Book ID: 88662More details Price: $20.00 -
THE SEVENTH PASSENGER.
Edition: Reprint.
Condition: Good overall in orange boards with gilt lettering (gift inscription inside front cover, some wear to the covers,rubbing to the lettering on the spine, but a tight and sturdy copy), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 78661More details Price: $20.00 -
TINY CARTERET.
Edition: Hardcover.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1930. Hardcover - A Crime Club selection. An adventure novel by English crime writer best known as the creator of Bulldog Drummond series. In this, huge and likable "Tiny" Carteret if offered a chance at some action by Ronald Standish. 327 pp.
Condition: Very good in black cloth with red lettering - closed tear to pp 316-317, corners slightly bumped, corner clipped on front endpaper, no dust jacket .
Book ID: 78245More details Price: $15.00 -
THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF JIMMIE DALE.
Edition: Reprint.
New York: A. L. Burt, (c 1919). Hardcover - The second book in this popular mystery series by this Canadian author, set in a New York City of "evil-smelling tenements and back alleys as the haunts of dope fiends, thieves and murderers." Dale, who was known as the Grey Seal, was a wealthy New Yorker by day and an expert safecracker at night - Able to surreptitiously change from one identity to the other, he worked to expose the seedy and corrupt underbelly. 340 pp plus 12 pp publisher's ads.
Condition: Good overall in light brown cloth with black lettering (corners somewhat bumped), no dust jacket.
Book ID: 78969More details Price: $15.00
![THE EXPLOITS OF TOMMY HAMBLEDON: Drink to Yesterday, A Toast to Tomorrow, Alias Uncle Hugo. by Coles, Manning [pseudonym of Cyril H. Coles and Adelaide F. Manning]](https://images.bookfever.com/production/11/52639---800.jpg?v=1519431445)
