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

Reynolds, B: DLS Her Life and Soul, Hodder and Stoughton 1993 HB with DJ vgc as new. £10

DLS’ Plays:

The Zeal of Thy House, Gollancz, 1939, 6th impression, HB much of its DJ remains… £7.50

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

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 cheap edition, 6th impression, 1944, HB, slightly torn DJ. £7.50

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. £3.50

The Just Vengeance: Wipf and Stock, 2011, pb as new, £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 Letters – Ed Barbara Reynolds

Vol II 1937-1943. St Martin’s Press NY, 1st US edition 1998, HB DJ vgc £10.00

Vol IV 1951-1957 – In the Midst of Life, 1st edition DLSS 2000 HB with DJ vgc, signed to late Chair of DLSS, faded spine. £10.00

DLS’ Poetry and translations

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

Oxford Poetry 1919, Blackwells, 1918 Ed, TWE, DLS and S S, 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

Ed Barbara Reynolds Dorothy L Sayers, Child and woman of her time, supplement Vol V to The Letters of Dorothy L Sayers, HB DJ lovely condition as new £10.00

Ed Martin Edwards: Taking Detective Stories Seriously: the collected crime reviews of DLS, Tippermuir, 2017, pb new, £10.

Ed Suzanne Bray: God Hitler and Lord Peter Wimsey, Tippermuir, 2019, pb new £5.00

DLS Begin Here, Gollancz, 1941 7th impression slightly loose spine, HB no DJ £7.50

DLS Unpopular Opinions Gollancz, 1946 1st Ed, HB protected DJ vgc £10.00

Ed Suzanne Bray Christ of the Creeds and other Broadcast Messages to the British People during WWII, DLSS 2008 pb vgc £5.00

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

DLS: Even the Parrot: Exemplary Conversations for Enlightened Children. Illustrated by Sillince, Methuen, 1944 1st Ed. HB slightly damaged DJ, otherwise vgc. £20

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, 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

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

The Wimsey Family CW Scott-Giles and DLS, NEL 1977 pb gc, £2.50

The Wimsey Family CW Scott-Giles and DLS, Gollancz, 1977 HB DJ, 1st Ed vgc, £25.00

The Wimsey Family CW Scott-Giles and DLS, DLSS, 2007, HB DJ vgc, £10.00

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

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

Ed Christopher Dean, (Signed by him) Encounters with Lord Peter, DLS Society, 1991 pb, vgc £5.00

Novels

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

Five Red Herrings NEL, 1987 16th impression, pb £2.50

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 £10.

Unnatural Death, Hodder, 2016 pb as new £5.00

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

Have His Carcase, Gollancz 1932 1st edition, HB no DJ, gc £15.00

Strong Poison, NEL, 2003, pb vgc £5.00

Strong Poison, pocket book edition (USA) 1941 pb vgc

Gaudy Night, NEL, 1972, pb, gc, £5.00

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

Striding Folly NEL 1972 (1st NEL) pb vgc £5.

Lord Peter Views the Body: Gollancz 1928, HB 1st Ed no DJ gc £10.00

Lord Peter Views the Body, Gollancz , 1948 17th impression HB DJ slightly damaged £5.00

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

Hangman’s Holiday, Gollancz, 1933 1st ed. HB no DJ, vgc, £20.00

The Documents in the Case, Benn, 1930 HB, gc, some repair, slightly foxed. £20.00

The Documents in the Case, Hodder, 2016 pb, vgc as new, £5.00

The Attenbury Emeralds (DLS with Jill Paton Walsh) HB DJ as new, £5.00

Detection Club collaborations

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

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 16,18,

Gilbert, CB, A Bibliography of the Works of Dorothy L Sayers, Macmillan 1978, 1st Ed, HB vgc, DJ slightly torn £10.00

Ed Steve Clarke: The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion, DLSS 2002 HB Beautiful copy with DJ. The final printed issue. £250.00

Proceedings of the DLSS Convention 2019 (University of East Anglia) £5.00

Proceedings of the DLSS Convention 2024 (University of Cambridge) £5.00