Sackville Orme (8 results)

Hardback. Condition: G+. Dust Jacket Condition: No DW. 1st Edition. No 686. Small red hardback. Book is in good plus condition with very noticeable signs of wear and/or age. BUT TEXT BLOCK HAS DETACHED FROM COVERS.

Hardcover. Condition: As Described. Front board and backstrip missing, presumed first edition but undated, as verso of title page is an add for ending leg suffering, and pre-title page is advert for Dr J Collis Browne's Chorodyne, rear pastedown also has an advert.Edges are tanned, owner's name and address on title page, small bits of paper loss on bottom and edges of first eleven pages, which does not impact upon the text, binding remains tight. Not the best cop but a chance to get a copy of this rare book for a reasonable price. Dispatched from the UK same or next working day.

1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. 254pp. Advert. e.ps. lightly browned and spotted, light browning throughout, sl. shaken, original black lettered red cloth with advert. lettered in black to lower board, minor soiling, corners and joint sl. rubbed, spine and upper board faded, head and tail of spinesl. bumped. US$74.

16mo, pp. [1-6] 7-254 [255-256] [note: first and last leaves used as front and rear paste-downs], original red boards, spine panel stamped in black. First edition. Crime story; murder, stolen jewels, etc. Number 653 in the Modern Publishing Company's series of cheap thrillers. Pulp fiction -- with ads on the endpapers for various quack medical remedies. A very good copy in defective pictorial dust jacket missing about a third of the front panel. (#170804).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Spine bumped & creased, front corners bumped & rubbed. Wear, creasing, nicks & splits on DJ. Losses to front, back & spine of DJ. ; 6.9 x 4.45 x 1.3; 254 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. G.P. Micklewright(Cover Artist) (illustrator). First Edition. The Valley of Skulls by Orme Sackville (First Edition) Firm copy with minor rubbing to corners and spine ends. Slight tanning to text block edges. Wear to edges and spine ends, .5 inch loss to bottom of tanned spine. 1 inch tear to upper front cover. In clear protective cover. First Edition. No publication date given. "A thriller", dust jacket. Red cloth boards with black lettering. BOOK.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The Curse of Amen-Tah by Or Orme Sackville (First Edition) A firm square copy with very minor wear to corners. Bright cloth and lettering. Mild offset tanning to endpapers and light tanning to page margins. A bright pictorial jacket. Chips to top edges with a few closed tears. Mild wear to bottom edges. Mild soiling to cover. 2/- Net. In clear protective cover. No publication date given. Red cloth with black lettering; 254 pp. Publisher adverts to endpapers. "Mystery Thriller", jacket. "First of several florid adventure novels, the first of which may be of some interest." Followed by Jungle Goddess (1935) and The Island of Ghosts (1935), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, sf-encylopedia.com. Sept. 2022. Uncommon with a dust jacket and in this condition. BOOK.

Hardcover. First edition (& 1st printing). 254 pages. ''Probably the pseudonym of an unidentified UK author of several florid adventure novels, the first of which, The Curse of Amen-Tah (1933), may be of some interest. Of the remaining identified titles, all published in 1935, THE JUNGLE GODDESS (1935) is of modest sf interest in its depiction of a female Tarzan who has been discovered in a remote African land; and The Island of Ghosts (1935) set on a remote Pacific Island, where a Mad Scientist is disseminating a gas which maddens both men and animals'' (John Clute/Encyclopedia of SF, 4th Edition). Page edges show some browning, an almost fine copy in bright red cloth in a good dustjacket wth six small chips along the edges, priced 2/- on spine.