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Jacot, B.L. Dust jacket illustration by Anne Linton. A KINGDOM FOR MY HORSE.
Michael Joseph, London, 1964, first edition.
119 pp, 8vo (8" H), hard cover in dust jacket. "This is the story of a small French-Canadian boy and his attachment to an old horse that belongs to the local undertaker. It is also the story of his ne'er-do-well uncle who arrives on the scene from the lumber camps full of good intentions and the best of spiritis. Uncle Jean-Marie has no money, but that wouldn't trouble him. His attitude to the ladies of the suspicious little town is watched. Jean-Marie is supposed eventually to be jo i n i n g his brother in the family grocery business at the Supermart. Instead he is building a stable for the horse and singing in the glee club. The rather intricate relationship between Jean-Marie, his nephew and the various ladies - to say no th in g of t he school-teacher, Miss Rogers - comes to life in this most unusual and charming book with astonishing vividness. (It) is a story with that rarest of qualities, the subtle power of lingering in the memory, providing an experience that on e f ee ls one has actually shared...." Tiny closed tear at top edge of page 83/84 - archivally taped, light browning to edges of textblock - tiny foxing marks on top of textblock, previous owner's name and a birthday gift inscription on free f ront end pap er. Du st jacket has very tiny chips at top/bottom of flap-folds and hinges, light browning on rear panel/spine and some edges. Very Good-/Very Good
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20.00 USD
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Adrian, Jack, selected by. Foreword by Julian Symons. (Graham Greene, Beverley Nichols, W.W. Jacobs, Sapper, B.L. Jacot, D.H. Lawrence, L.T. Meade, H.G. Wells, Edgar Wallace, E. Nesbit, Arthur Conan Doyle, Martin Swayne, Grant Allen, et al.) STRANGE TALES FROM THE STRAND.
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1991.
373 pp, 8vo (8 3/4" H), hard cover in dust jacket. ISBN 019212305X Contents: All But Empty - Graham Greene; Lord Beden's Motor - J.B. Harris-Burland; The Tarn - Hugh Walpole; Resurgam - Rina Ramsay; The Railway Carriage - F. Tennyson Jesse; The Be ll - Beverley Nichols; His Brother's Keeper - W.W. Jacobs; Touch and Go - Sapper; Waxworks - W.L. George; White Spectre - B.L. Jacot; "Tickets, Please!" - D.H. Lawrence; A Torture by Hope - Villiers de l'Isle-Adam; A Horrible Fight - L.T. Mead e ; T h e Case of Roger Carboyne - H. Greenbough Smith; The Orchestra of Death - Ianthe Jerrold; The Lizard - C.J. Cutcliffe-Hyne; Inexplicable - L.G. Moberly; The Prophetic Camera - L. de Giberne Sieveking; Cavalanci's Curse - Henry A. Hering; Th e Qu e er S to ry of Brownlow's Newspaper - H.G. Wells; The Black Grippe - Edgar Wallace; The Fog - Morley Roberts; The Thames Valley Catastrophe - Grant Allen; A Sense of the Future - Martin Swayne; The Silver Mirror - Arthur Conan Doyle; The Haun te d H ou se - E . N esbit; How It Happened - Arthur Conan Doyle; The Power of Darkness - E. Nesbit; The Horror of the Heights - Arthur Conan Doyle. Dust jacket has very light edge wrinkling. NF/VG+
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17.50 USD
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Jacot, B.L. VILLA MAR.
Macdonald, London, (1948), first edition.
192 pp, small 8vo, HC in dust jacket. The author's first novel. "From the moment Bill Gallow drove his car along that sunlit coast (of Provence), sleepy in the aftermath of war, he sensed an air of tension and reserve. He sought only the peace an d seclusion necessary to his career as a writer, but his life at the Villa Mar was to involve him in a strange and terrifying adventure..." Endpapers browning lightly, light edgewear to boards, light dust staining to top of boards. Dust j a c k e t h a s small chips/tears/wrinkles, light scuffing/soiling, small area missing from bottom of front panel near spine - scan available on request. VG-/Fair
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50.00 USD
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