Search Results: Titles starting with O from Scorpion Press

This book catalogues five art schools from the Malcolm Collect: Italian, Spanish, French, German and the Netherlands. It contains 100 pictures and each one has a full page of explanatory text. Published at £20.00 GBP. nice clean and unblemished copy.

Allan Gurganis's début novel on the Civil war. Received excellent reviews on publication. Signed and dated 1989 on the ffep. Unread copy, tight, square and sharp. First printing with the FPT to the jacket flap. Only defect is some spotting to the reverse of the jacket.

This is a fine copy, signed by the author on the title page and dated at the time of publication giving the year 1989.
An unusual first novel, being an epic story with the American Civil War as the backdrop. No marks or inscriptions, but as is common with British books the bookblock page is showing signs of yellowing. It a collectable copy

HILL, Reginald ON BEULAH HEIGHT 1998 Category: Whodunnit
Summary: Reginald Hill (d. 2012) is one of the most versatile and gifted of British crime writers. Dalziel and Pascoe series.1/85 signed with an appreciation by John Baker.
Reginald Hill was a northerner and after attending Oxford where he read English he taught at a school in Essex before moving to a Further Education College in Leeds, Yorkshire. When he set out to become a crime novelist with A Clubbable Woman (1970) Hill brought an ambition to do three significant things in this and his subsequent work: to re-work Falstaff and Prince Hal in his detective duo of Dalziel and Pascoe; to open up a commentary on the state of the social affairs in the country, in particular in northern England and on the cause of feminism; and thirdly, if that were not sufficient, to devise new perimeters for the detective/crime format by drawing on broader literary devises and forms. Over the course of more than forty brilliant years Reginald Hill became the… Read More

A Crime Writers of GB commissioned anthology on the the of Original Sins edited by crime doyen Martin Edwards. Eighteen authors all signed this impressive volume including: Simon Brett, Ann Cleeves, Martin Edwards, Kate Ellis, Chris Ewan, Christopher Fowler, Sophie Hannah, Tim Heald, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey, Rick Mofina, Barbara Nadel, Christine Poulson, Zoe Sharp, Chris Simms, Andrew Taylor, Charles Todd (signed by mother and son) and finally, Laura Wilson.In addition, the Scorpion editor has included a tribute essay to the crime writer and three time Gold Dagger winner, Lionel Davidson. Only 85 numbered and signed copies of this special limited edition.

This is a collection of crime and detection short stories by members of the Crime Writers' Association. It is edited by the chair person, Martin Edwards.
This is the deluxe lettered state, being one of only 16 copies. It contains 21 signautures, including the publisher, author of an essay on three time Gold Dagger winner, Lionel Davidson (1922-2009}. The most well known writers in the volume are: Simon Brett, Ann Cleeves, Sophie Hannah, Reginald Hill, Peter Lovesey, Rick Mofina, Barbara Nadel, Zoe Sharp, Andrew Taylor, Charles Todd (twice) and Laura Wilson.
A great volume for the detection and crime collector. New

An usual Len Deighton collectible, being a collection of illustrated cookstrips from Deighton column in the London Observer. It has a nice inscription from Deighton: "Rhis paperback has exactly what I wanted - a French like design!", signed Best wishes, Len Deighton. Reasonable copy, clean with slight edge wear. No marks. The spywriter of the Harry Palmer series is the same author.