Penmare (3 results)

1st edition. Blue cloth with black lettering & monogram. Internally VG; blue cloth a little discoloured on spine, with light wear at head & foot; boards a little marked Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket) Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First edition. First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original blue cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6. "Pseudonym of UK author Mavis Elizabeth Hocking Nisot (1893-1973) which she used for two of her novels, the second, The Man Who Could Stop War (1929), being a Near Future Scientific Romance in which the invention of an immobilising gas helps thwart a Russian Invasion. She is better known for her detective tales as E H Nisot." (Encyclopedia of Science Fiction). Some scattered foxing; cloth and dust-jacket very good. Book.

First edition, from the collection of the Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, with his posthumous bookplate. This science fiction novel imagines the thwarting of a Russian invasion through the invention of an immobilizing gas. Nisot (1893-1973) wrote two novels under the Penmare pseudonym; she also known for her detective novels, published under the name E. H. Nisot. Octavo. With 12 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black. With dust jacket. Bookseller's stamps of the Book Room, New South Wales, to free endpapers. Spine toned, corners bumped, spotting to covers, foxing to outer leaves; jacket soiled and toned, chips and creases to extremities, loss to spine ends, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.