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The Little Tales of Smethers: Available Copies

The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

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The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

240 pages. 7.80x5.08x0.59 inches. In Stock.

BIC Classification: FC; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270. . 2017. Paperback. . . . .

BIC Classification: FC; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270. . 2017. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Lord Dunsany, HarperCollins Publishers. Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short story at his very best. SMETHERS is a travelling salesman for Numnumo, who make a relish for meats and savouries. He shares a flat with an Oxford graduate called Linley, who fancies himself as a detective and to whom Scotland Yard is inclined to turn if they encounter a particularly challenging mystery. When a pretty young girl disappears and her lodger is suspected of murdering her, two bottles of Numnumo relish are the only clues, and Smethers is sent to gather more information . . . Amongst the hundreds of fantasy stories for which the Irish dramatist, poet and writer Lord Dunsany became deservedly famous there was one solitary little book of detective stories. Selected by Ellery Queen as an 'unequivocal keystone' in the history of crime writing, this quirky collection is a mixture of the masterful and the macabre, a book that lovers of detective stories and tales of the unexpected will want to savour.

Title change: first published in 1952 as THE LITTLE TALES OF SMETHERS. Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short story at his very best. SMETHERS is a travelling salesman for Numnumo, who make a relish for meats and savouries. He shares a flat with an Oxford graduate called Linley, who fancies himself as a detective and to whom Scotland Yard is inclined to turn if they encounter a particularly challenging mystery. When a pretty young girl disappears and her lodger is suspected of murdering her, two bottles of Numnumo relish are the only clues, and Smethers is sent to gather more information . . . Amongst the hundreds of fantasy stories for which the Irish dramatist, poet and writer Lord Dunsany became deservedly famous there was one solitary little book of detective stories. Selected by Ellery Queen as an 'unequivocal keystone' in the history of crime writing, this quirky collection is a mixture of the masterful and the macabre, a book that lovers of detective stories and tales of the unexpected will want to savour.

1st Edition 1st Printing. Near VG; small stains on rear board and edge of spine. Very light foxing on page edges and endpapers. Otherwise a bright, tidy copy in tight binding. Lime green cloth with black lettering on spine. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)

First Edition. Some marks on the fore-edge Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

7.5 x 5", green textured boards, 232pp, spine ends bumped, extremities lightly worn, contents a bit toned but still a nice, clean copy in a rubbed and edge-worn, lightly soiled dustjacket. FIRST EDITION, Second State (green boards).

In light green cloth binding ; no inscriptions ; wrapper has creasing at bottom of front cover and edge wear ; wrapper clipped but price remains.

Neuware - Lord Dunsany mixes reality with fantasy in this forgotten collection of modern detective stories. Some are macabre, others have a lighter and more amusing touch, but every story stimulates the imagination and reveals the acknowledged master of the short story at his very best.

Two Bottles of Relish | The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories | Lord Dunsany | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2023 | HarperCollins Publishers | EAN 9780008159382 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu

Clean & tightly bound hardback book, endpapers tanned, no inscriptions, in a price clipped dustjacket which is rubbed and chipped at the edges with a 1cm split at top of spine/front cover and a nick in the centre of the spine. 232 pages

Octavo, 232 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is dark green with yellow and white lettering. Dust jacket is protected with a mylar covering, price cut. Bumping to head and tail of spine. Mild bumping to edges of dust jacket. Mild cocking to spine. Text block clean. Shelved in Case 8. 1414968. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

THE LITTLE TALES OF SMETHERS, Jarrolds, 1952, first edition, first state black binding, light brown stain covered by front dust-wrapper flap on f.p.d., faint moisture stain to a small area of the r.e.p., ink number at base of r.p.d. near the gutter, else a vg/vg+ copy in like dust-wrapper. QUEEN'S QUORUM choice.

Collects 26 stories mixing fantasy and detective fiction. In Queen's Quorum 109. A first edition with Currey binding B) - green boards, spine lettered in black. The first binding was black cloth, spine lettered in gold. Front free endpaper a little smudged (where several pencilled comments have been rubbed out), else a fine copy in an almost fine (bright, unfaded pictorial) dustjacket (with front flap clipped, but 6/- price still showing) and a little wear along the bottom spine edge.

London: Jarrolds LTD, 1952. First edition. 12 mo. 232 pp. Green cloth with black titles to the spine. Green jacket with green and white lettering. Light edge wear with a couple of small areas of loss to two corners; light soiling and offsetting to the rear panel. Near fine in a very good or better jacket. Front flap is price-clipped as well as the bottom of the flap. An attractive copy.

Octavo, green boards, spine panel stamped in black. First edition, second binding (apple-green boards). A collection of twenty-six stories including the macabre "Two Bottles of Relish" and eight other connected Smethers tales. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 591. Schlobin, The Literature of Fantasy 902. Anderson I.90.a. Queen's Quorum 109. A fine copy in fine dust jacket priced 6/- on the front flap. (#174535)

[Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION, first impression, second state green cloth binding. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.232. Publisher's green cloth lettered in black to spine, illustrated dust jacket with printed price of 6/- to front flap. Toning to text-block with some spotting along top edge, slight rolling to spine, small very light brown mark to spine, toning to rear panel of dust-jacket. Very good. 'The Little Tales of Smethers' is a collection of 26 short stories, the first nine of which follow the detective Smethers. Some titles included in are 'Two Bottles of Relish', 'Once Too Often', 'The Lost Scientist', and 'The Shield of Athene'. Bleiler suggests that 'The Shield of Athene' is a particular highlight in the collection. Bleiler, 'The Guide to Supernatural Fiction', 591.