Second-hand Books for Sale

DLSS Books for sale

Proceeds go to fund Awards. All prices are excluding postage for which you will be notified according to weight and where you want them to be sent. Where there is demand for one book by several people it will be sold on a first-come-first-served basis. Write to jasmine@sayers.org.uk with your order and you will receive notification of the total cost and how to pay.

PLEASE NOTE:

Posting items to the USA

With the changes to duty for items other than letters being posted to the USA, the Society is pausing the posting of anything other the Bulletin – which is sent as a letter and does not attract duty – to members in the USA. Royal Mail has resumed some postage of parcels to the US but there is a handling fee now, for parcels. Once we have some clarity on the new postage charges and duties process, the Committee will discuss how we will manage this. We regret that we have had to do this but until we are clear about both process and charges, we will not be accepting orders from the US, apart from membership fees.

Biography

Brunsdale, Mitzi: Dorothy L Sayers: Solving the Mystery of Wickedness. Berg, 1990, 1st

Ed, HB no DJ, Excellent condition, £5.00

Coombes, D: A Careless Rage for Life, Lion, 1st Ed, HB,1992, Excellent condition, DJ £7.50

Hitchman, J: Such a Strange Lady, NEL, HB 1st Ed 1975, Excellent condition, DJ £5.00

Hone, RE: Dorothy L Sayers, a Literary Biography, Kent State University Press, HB 1st Ed 1979, Excellent condition as new, DJ, £20.

DLS’ Plays:

The Zeal of Thy House, Gollancz, 1939, HB some of its DJ remains… £7.50

The Man Born to be King, Gollancz, 1st cheap edition, 15th impression, 1950, HB, slightly torn DJ. £7.50

The Man Born to be King, Gollancz, 1st cheap edition, 13th impression, 1948, HB, DJ, plastic cover. £10

The Man Born to be King, Gollancz, 1st edition, 1943, HB, no DJ. £10.

The Devil to Pay: Gollancz, 1939, HB, no DJ, slightly scruffy, some pencil marks. £3.50

The Devil to Pay: Gollancz, 1939, 2nd impression, pb, gc battered cover. £2.50

The Devil to Pay: Gollancz, 1940, 3rd impression, HB, vgc DJ with protective covering. Slightly foxed £4.50

He That Should Come, Gollancz, 1939, pb, v nice copy. £5.00

He That Should Come: Gollancz, 1942, 3rd impression, pb battered cover, gc. £2.50

The Just Vengeance: Wipf and Stock, 2011, pb as new, £10.00

The Just Vengeance: Gollancz, 1946, 1st ed, pb, £10.00

The Emperor Constantine: Gollancz, 1951, 1st Ed, HB, protected DJ, vgc. £12.50

The Emperor Constantine: Gollancz, 1951, 1st Ed, HB, no DJ, vgc. £10

The Emperor Constantine: Gollancz, 1951, HB, no DJ, some ex Libris marks. £3.00

Busman’s Honeymoon, Gollancz, 1937, 1st Ed, pb, internally excellent though spine shows signs of wear. £20

DLS’ Poetry and translations

Tristan in Brittany, Benn, 1929, 1st Ed, HB, plastic cover, vgc £25

OP1, Blackwells, 1916 1st Ed. Paperback, gc £50.

Catholic Tales and Christian Songs, Blackwells, 1918, 1st Ed paperback, plastic DJ, £80

Oxford Poetry 1917, Blackwells, 1918 (2nd impression), Ed WRC, TWE, and DLS, Paperback, loose cover, some loose pages, £20

Oxford Poetry 1918, Blackwells, 1918 Ed EFAG, TWE, and DLS, Paperback, vgc £25

Dante The Divine Comedy, Hell, Penguin, 1951 pb no DJ gc £7.50

Dante The Divine Comedy, Hell, Penguin, 1960 pb no DJ vgc £10

Dante The Divine Comedy, Purgatory, Penguin, 1959 1st reprint pb no DJ vgc £10

Miscellaneous volumes including by other writers

DLS: The Other Six Deadly Sins, An Address given to the public Morality Council at

Caxton Hall Westminster on October 23rd 1941: published by Methuen, 3rd edition 1943, gc though with rebound spine. Paper covers. Slightly grubby. £4.

DLS Creed or Chaos, Hodder and Stoughton, 1949 pamphlet, plastic cover, pages quite badly foxed (war time paper) but otherwise in vgc. £5.00

DLS The Mind of the Maker, Methuen 1941, 1st Ed, HB, DJ, vgc £20

DLS Creed or Chaos (etc) Methuen, 1947, 1st Ed as in this form, HB no DJ vgc, £10

DLS: Even the Parrot: Exemplary Conversations for Enlightened Children. Illustrated by Sillince, Methuen, 1944 1st Ed. Hb, excellent condition with DJ. £25

Kent Sprague, Rosamond (Ed): A Matter of Eternity, selections from the writings of Dorothy L Sayers, Mowbray1973, HB, DJ and plastic cover, vgc. £5

Ed DLS Great Short Stories of Detection Mystery and Horror, Gollancz 1928 1st ed. HB, some repair and plastic covering, but otherwise in vgc. £10

Ed DLS Great Short Stories of Detection Mystery and Horror, Second Series, Gollancz 1931 1st ed. HB, some repair and plastic covering, but otherwise in vgc. £10

Ed DLS Great Short Stories of Detection Mystery and Horror, Third Series, Gollancz 1934 1st ed. HB, some repair and plastic covering, but otherwise in vgc. £10

Set of 1st Edition £25 Ed DLS Great Short Stories of Detection Mystery and Horror, Second Series, Gollancz 1937 5th impression, HB, no DJ, but otherwise in vgc. £5

Ed DLS Great Short Stories of Detection Mystery and Horror, Third Series, Gollancz 1934 2nd impression. HB, loose boards, but otherwise in vgc. £5

The Wimsey Family CW Scott-Giles and DLS, NEL 1977 pb gc, £2.50 Pickering, K, Drama in the Cathedral: The Canterbury Festival Plays 1928-1948 (Includes The Zeal of Thy House and The Devil to Pay by DLS), Churchman Publishing, 1985, HB, DJ, vgc. £20.

Reynolds B, The Passionate Intellect: Dorothy L Sayers’ Encounter with Dante. Wipf and Stock, 1989, pb, vgc. £20.00

Moulton, M: Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L Sayers and her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women, Hachette, 2019, Pb, gc (some loose pages at start) £5.00

Fleming, Capt A: How to see the Battlefields, Cassell, 1919, 1st Ed, HB no DJ, very slightly scuffed cover but otherwise excellent condition. £40

Novels

Whose Body? Gollancz, 1936, 3rd impression, HB no DJ gc, £5.00

Whose Body? Gollancz, 1940, 6th impression, HB no DJ gc, £4.00

The Nine Tailors, NEL, 1954, 22nd impression pb, vgc. £2.00

Five Red Herrings 4 Square Books, 1987, pb £2.50

Five Red Herrings, Gollancz, 1935, 9th imp, HB. No DJ gc £5.

Murder Must Advertise, NEL,1973 pb, gc £2.50

Murder Must Advertise, NEL,1985, pb, used, 50p

Murder Must Advertise, Gollancz,1936 7th imp. HB, no DJ, gc £2.50

Murder Must Advertise, Harcourt Brace,1933, 1st US edition. HB, no DJ but plastic covering, vgc £5.

Unnatural Death, Collins, nd, HB, no DJ, gc £5.00

Unnatural Death, Gollancz, 1936 3rd Impression, HB, no DJ, vgc £5.00

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Gollancz, 1935, 1st cheap ed. HB no DJ, faded spine but gc. £5.00

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club, Gollancz, 1936. HB no DJ, gc. £5.00

Have His Carcase, Gollancz 1936, 8th impression, HB no DJ, gc £2.50

Strong Poison, NEL, 1970, pb, gc. £2.50

Busman’s Honeymoon, Gollancz 1938 3rd impression HB no DJ, gc £5.00

The Sayers Tandem: The Nine Tailors and Busman’s Honeymoon Gollancz, 1957 HB no DJ fair condition (small print) £5.00

Striding Folly NEL 1972 (1st NEL) paperback, plastic covers vgc £5.

Lord Peter Views the Body: Gollancz 1928, HB 1st Ed no DJ gc £5

Hangman’s Holiday, Gollancz, 1936 5th impression. HB no DJ, vgc, £5

Thrones, Dominations, (DLS with Jill Paton Walsh), Hodder and Stoughton, 1998, 1st Ed. HB, DJ with plastic cover. As new with signed dedication. £10.

Detection Club collaborations

The Floating Admiral, Macmillan, 1981 (reprinted from 1931), HB, DJ as new, £10

Other languages

Japanese

Lord Peter Views the Body, Ronso Karigai Mystery 277, HB with DJ. £5.00 Reference

VII: An Anglo-American Literary Review, Marion E Wade Center. Volumes available at £5 each: Vols 10, 16,18,