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WHEATLEY**, DENNIS: : DEATH IN THE SUNSHINE: THE FABULOUS VALLEY & THE SECRET WAR & THE EUNUCH OF STAMBOUL. [OMNIBUS.] [VARIANT.]

LONDON.HUTCHINSON & CO,(Publishers) LTD.,21st December,1958.

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UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Printed in Great Britain on Antique Wove paper by Taylor Garnett Evans & Co. Ltd.,Watford,Herts,and bound by them.A VARIANT issue - with publisher's smaller colophon (bull) to dw/dj spine/backstrip and repeated inner flap wording,to half-title page.] NFINE/VG. No owner inscrptn and no price- clip (21s net) to dw/dj.Bright,crisp, glossy,colour pictorial artwork by SAX, illustrated front+spine/backstrip with b/w lettering to front, brown+black lettering to an externally,aged sellotape strips repaired spine/backstrip,rear panel with a lightly grubbed white background with yellow panel containing black lettered publisher's advert for other available Wheatley omnibus titles; with some shelf-wear,creasing,chipping with minor loss to edges and corners.Across top edge of dw/dj: rear corner tip with aged narrow sellotape external repair,similar external,aged sellotape strips repairs at head of spine,some small closed tear without repair,others with sellotape 'ghost' where tape is missing.Along bottom edges of dw/dj: both corner tips rubbed with miniscule loss,nicks and chipping at foot of spine but no sellotape repair inside or out,to those faults - no other major nicks or tears present.Top edges with very light ageing/ toning and virtually no foxing/spotting,fore-edges bright and clean with a handful of spots; contents bright,crisp,tight and clean - text body and page edges virtually foxing- free - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered - front,lead corner with small bump/crease - publisher's original,maroon cloth boards/covers with blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white eps - front+rear free endpapers respective verso+recto each with some foxing/ spotting,both hinges solid,sound and without any splits,tears or cracking; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to boards/covers - no nicks,tears splits or fraying present.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9- 286pp,9-288pp and 3-358pp [paginated] respectively.Each story includes a title separator page with a dedication to reverse,and a contents list/table [unpaginated],and 29,24 and 26 chapters respectively.Described hard but fairly and honestly - particularly for the dw/dj.A particularly uncommon VARIANT issue/edn. An omnibus of out-of series,stand alone, one-off espionage or adventure novels. a) 'THE FABULOUS VALLEY' (24th August, 1934),b) 'THE SECRET WAR' (8th January, 1937) and c) 'THE EUNUCH OF STAMBOUL'(10th July,1935. a) As the brute sprang she screamed and fell sideways.There was a snarling roar, a horrible choking gurgle and,as she tried to fling herself farther back upon the ground,she saw that the great cat was whirling round and round with her father underneath it.The fore-claws were buried in his shoulders and the hind ones tearing at his body.She screamed again,half-mad with terror.The leopard suddenly stopped gyrating,then,seizing Henry's neck in its great teeth,it shook him like a rat.A rifle cracked,the leopard leaped sideways across her father's body and then Patricia fainted. b) Sir Anthony Lovelace had liked the handsome young American at their first meeting,but if he had known that Christopher Penn was one of the celebrated Millers of God,who condemned to death all those who profited from war,he might have thought twice before associating with him.He certainly would have done so could he have guessed that he would find himself pledged to assist in the 'elimination' of an Armenian gentleman named Paxito Zariff, and that keeping his word would lead him on a chase through Europe and Africa to the heart of Abyssinia,and into a series of terrifying adventures.Yet he was carried through largely by his love for Valerie,Christopher's fiancee,an unspoken devotion that,in Addis Ababa,reaped its reward. c) This story concerns a young Englishman,Swithin Destime,who,to avoid an international incident,had resigned from the Army; within weeks he was in Istanbul to check on rumours of a planned uprising. But as a spy Destime was an amateur,alone in a city of intrigue and fear,a dark web in whose centre squatted the repulsive form of Kazdim Hari Bekar.Formerly a Palace eunuch,Kazdim was now Chief of the Secret Police – a job which admirably suited his depraved personal tastes.... Please contact seller,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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