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… this is a new feature on Scorpion Press each month we will create a new page here highlighting the many unsolved crimes and keep you in suspense. We intend to feature a sub genre of crime fiction and comment on the scene of the scene as best we can ....
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T E Lawrence classic , Seven Pillars of Wisdom – leather rebinding
T E Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, First edition (trade) published in 1935. A masterpiece in many senses – use of the language, military tactics, foresight, history etc. During his time Lawrence was the most famous Englishman. This is a ...
£250.00
Tana French, The Likeness – 1/12 rebinding
Tana French, The Likeness, first edition rebound in 2020 in green leather with five raised bands, signed by the author on a new introduction limitation page. Issued with a photo from the successful television adaptation. French has been labelled the ...
£185.00
Peter Lovesey, Waxwork – rebinding signed by author and Cribb
Peter Lovesey's Waxwork, first edition, leather rebinding is one of 12 copies with and comes with additional intro page setting the scene signed by Peter Lovesey and Alan Dobie (the actor that played DS Cribb). A photo of the ...
£200.00
Guy Bolton, The Pictures signed 1/12 leather rebind Hollywood Noir
The Pictures by Guy Bolton, Scorpion rebinding being 1/12 in red leather with raised bands, gold and red marbled sides and an added text approved and signed by the author. It is issued with a photo of screen siren ...
£175.00
R J Ellory, Candlemoth – deluxe rebinding, 1st ed 1st book, signed
R J Ellory, Candlemoth (2003) 1st ed., signed leather rebinding 1/12 deluxe lettered with an author profile approved and signed by the author. Author Profile text: "Beginning with Candlemoth (2003) and now fifteen years later R J Ellory continues to ...
£180.00
John Lawton, A Little White Death, 1st signed rebinding
John Lawton, A Little White Death, the third Inspector Troy espionage novel. 1st edition, signed on the author profile page by the author. 1/12 deluxe lettered copies released in 2019. Author Profile in book: "John Lawton has been a ...
£180.00
J L Burke, House of the Rising Sun
James Lee Burke's latest novel House of the Rising Sun has been issued in handsome binding by the Scorpion Press with an appreciation by Alafair Burke and limited to 55 numbered copies. New York Times bestseller James Lee Burke ...
£72.00
Andrew Taylor, The Mortal Sickness
Andrew Taylor is a much admired and talented crime writer. Since the publication of his crime books such as – The Barred Window (1993), The Roth Trilogy (1997-2000) and American Boy (2003) - Taylor has shown that British crime ...
20% off!
Allan Mallinson, A Call to Arms
Following a distinguished career in the British Army Allan Mallinson became a highly regarded novelist of historical military adventures. His series is about a cavalry officer whose displays a mixture of courage and kindness, has a talent for friendship ...
12% off!
Barbara Vine, Asta’s Book deluxe lettered
Barbara Vine is the alter ego of the prolific and gifted crime writer Ruth Rendell Having pushed the boundaries of the police procedural with her Wexford books and produced a string of sexgrills and psychological thrillers, she felt the need ...
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- George Blake: Epitaph for a Spy
George Blake (1922 – 2020) was one of the most enigmatic of the unmasked spies. Could he have been an unlikely perfect spy with a conscience; a man of principle or a blatant schemer? Accounts …
- R Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon – spy thriller – rebinding
Robert Wilson, A Small Death in Lisbon (1999); winner of the CWA Gold Dagger. 1/12 signed limited of twelve copies rebound in leather with handmade marble sides; signed on limitation page with a new introduction …
- Spy Fiction Collectables
The first book in the Scorpion Press series of Signed Leather bound editions was a spy thriller – The Year of the Scorpion by Michael Hartland. Nine books with a war-time or Cold War espionage …
- 20th Century Classic 1/1 Leather French Lieutenant … by John Fowles
To mark 50th years since the original publication of John Fowles’ The French Lieutenant’s Woman (1969) this is a rebinding run of 12 lettered copies with additional material and the facsimile autographs of Fowles and …
- G MacDonald Fraser, Flashman Omnibus leather rebinding
George Macdonald Fraser created one of the great English fictional characters with Flashy or Harry Flashman. This is the original first edition issued by Barrie & Jenkins entitled Flashman’s First Omnibus (1979). Forty years on …
- Early Inspector Morse rebinding – Colin Dexter
Colin Dexter, The Riddle of The Third Mile, 1st edition Macmillan 1983. Rebound with five raised bands with maroon leather with an Author Profile approved by the Dexter family. Twelve deluxe lettered copies only.
This project … - Classic Peter Lovesey Gold Dagger book fine binding
Peter Lovesey, The False Inspector Dew 1st London ed., 1982
A sumptuous leather rebinding with five raised bands with marble sides, additional page approved and signed by the author.
1/12 deluxe issued by the Scorpion Press.
A … - What is Tom Wolfe’s America
From the early 20th century, for example the USA Trilogy of John Dos Passos, writers have given us contemporary portraits of America. One of the best, and most varied chronicles of the second half of …
- FUTURISTIC FIRST SF NOVEL TO BE NETFLIX SERIES
Following the success of hugely popular series like The Crown, streaming channel Netflix is looking to develop original novels as drama series. The latest is based on Richard Morgan’s Altered Carbon.
Although obviously marketed as science … - SUE GRAFTON – ONE OF THE GREATS
One of the great mystery writers of recent times, Sue Grafton has passed away aged 77. Grafton came to prominence in the 80s when she began her alphabetical series of Kinsey Millone private eye novels.
The …