Terms and Conditions
What you need to know about purchasing books from us
Condition
The Scorpion Press books are new and have not been used. The second-hand first editions we stock are in collectible condition and standard descriptions are used. For older books – over say 40 – 50 years old – the standard expected is less than fairly recent issues – and still still less for those published 80 or more years ago. Condition of collectibles is reflected in the price.
Payments
We are a mail order business and process payments by either cheque, Visa Mastercard and debit cards are accepted through the Realex payment gateway, and PayPal is also accepted. Some customers, including regular customers provide the card details by telephone or new expiry dates etc. by e-mail.
Shipping
UK orders are despatched within a few days of receipt of payment. Shipping is charged at a flat rate per order. We don’t cut corners with packaging: each book is sent out with sufficient protection to ensure it reaches you dry and undamaged. Overseas orders are usually sent air mail economy via our shipper at Heathrow airport and we need sufficient orders or several large ones to make the next consignment. A consignment is about every three weeks.
We have insurance that covers safe delivery. We take full responsibility for the book until it is safely in your hands. If the book is not as described by us, let us know immediately. You will then be able to return it for a full refund including your postage costs. Additionally, if you decide you just don’t want the book, but there is nothing wrong with it, tell us straight away. If a return is agreed, it will be at your own expense but we will refund the full purchase price provided we get the book back in the same condition as when it left us.
Scorpion Press Blog Posts
- Crime Writers as hoarders of Knowledge
When I joined the Crime Writers’ Association and attended social functions I perceived that many writers led interesting lives as people other than writers. Aside from the obvious fact that crime writers convey in there …
- Robert Richardson – tribute to the writer and exponent of crime
It was during the mid eighties – the period when the newspaper headlines were full of stories of Britain on strike – that broadsheet journalist Robert Richardson chanced upon writing his first detective novel. It …
- The Collectibility of Leather Rebinds or collecting rare books
The Collectibilty of Leather Rebinds
In Centuries past libraries in great houses were lined with leather bound volumes. They provided accessibility to knowledge, exuded learning and gave satisfaction to the owner – who had given time … - McDermid’s ‘Distant Echo’ dramatised
Val McDermid’s first DC Karen Pirie novel is to be dramatised in a new ITV drama series. Outlander star Lauren Lyle will play the lead character – the young fearless Scottish detective – to be …
- Reginald Hill (1936 – 2012) Prolific literary crime writer
Reginald Hill, prolific British author best known for his 24 idiosyncratic, but highly elegant crime novels featuring the Yorkshire police detectives Andrew Dalziel and Peter Pascoe, is perhaps one of the most admired and influential …
- 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 …