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Fiction: (Remember: prices include postage to UK addresses)
God of the Labyrinth. Mayflower. Paper. £4. Reading copy.
The Killer. NEL. Paper. Creased spine £3.
Mind Parasites. Panther. Paper. VG. £6. Reading copy £3.
Schoolgirl Murder Case. Panther. Paper. £3. Thriller Book Club. Hard. G/G. £5.
Spider World: The Delta. Grafton. 1st ed. Hardback. VG/VG £10. Paper. £3 .Reading copy
Spider World: The Tower. Grafton. Trade paper VG £5.
Non-fiction: (Remember: prices include postage to UK addresses).
Crimes and Criminals. Black Cat. Hardback. VG/VG. £20 (Reprints 38 of the articles written for the part-work Crimes and Punishment)
Decline and Fall of Leftism. Paupers. 1st edition. As new. £10
Directory of Possibilities. Corgi. Paper. Reading copy £3.
Essay on the New Existentialism. Paupers'. Paper. 3rd. imp. Mint. £5. 2nd imp. Mint £6.
Music, Nature and the Romantic Outsider. Paupers. 1st edition. As new. £10.
Musician as Outsider. Paupers'. 1st ed. Paper. Fine but rusty staples. £9.
Mysteries. Granada. Paper reprint. VG. £8
Order of Assassins. Hart-Davis. 1st ed. Hard. 2 coffee stained pages. £7.
Order of Assassins. Panther. Paper. Reading copy £3.
Poltergeist! NEL. 1st ed. Hard. Mint/Mint. £10.
Poltergeist! NEL. 1st paper. VG with booksellers stamp on flyleaf. £5.
Serial Killers. BCA. Hardback. Hard. VG/VG. £8. True Crime. Paper. Creased spine. £4. Trade paper WH Allen ed £6
Starseekers. Hodder. 1st ed. Hard. VG/VG. £10. (US and UK editions)
World Famous Crimes of Passion. Magpie. Paper. 121p. original edition. £1.50.
World Famous Gaslight Murder. Magpie. Paper. £1.50.
World Famous Robberies. Parragon. Paper. 121p. original edition. £1.50.
World Famous Scandals. Magpie. Paper. 120p. original edition. £1.50.
World Famous Serial Killers. Magpie. Paper. £1.50.
World Famous Strange But True. Parragon. Paper. 104p. original edition. £1.50.
World Famous Strange Tales and Weird Mysteries. Magpie. Paper. 121p. original edition. £1.50.
World Famous Unsolved Crimes. Magpie. Paper. 119p. original edition. £1.50.
World Famous Weird News Stories. Parragon. Paper. 102p. original edition. £1.50.
Books with contributions by Colin Wilson: (Remember: prices include postage to UK addresses)
Bodies and Crimes by Dr Denis Hocking. Paper. Reading copy. £3 (Contains 8-page foreword by CW)
Briefing for the Landing on Planet Earth by Stuart Holroyd. Paper. Reading copy. £3 (Contains 6-page Intro by CW)
The Devil's Daughter by Christine Hart. Paper. VG. £5. (Includes a 6-page Foreword by CW)
King Arthur Country in Cornwall. Paper. Rare. Slightly worn and creased cover. £4. (Includes C.W.'s The Search for the Real Arthur.)
The Man who Exorcised the Bermuda Triangle by Marc Alexander. 1st US ed. Hard. Fine/Fine.£8. (Intro by C.W.)
Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe. Paper. Reading copy. £3. (12-page intro by C.W.)
The Murderer's Who's Who edited by Gaute and Odell. Paper. Mint. £3. (Includes a 9-page Foreword by C.W.).
The Necronomicon edited by G. Hay. Skoob. Paper. G. £5
Strange Talents. Black Cat. Hard. £8 . Fine.(Includes C.W. on Tom Lethbridge and Uri Geller)
The Westcountry Book edited by J.C. Trewin. 1st ed. Hard. VG/VG. £6. (Contains C.W.'s essay Discovering Cornwall).
Also Available: (Remember: prices include postage to UK addresses)
Books and Bookmen January, February, March, April and June 1974. £5 each.
Murder Casebook no.8: The College Girl Killings; no.12: Son of Sam; no.18: Hillside Stranglers; no.36: Killer Couples; no.54: John Wayne Gacy; no.57: Henri Desire Landru; no.108: Cleveland's Mad Butcher; no.120: Jeffrey Dahmer; no.128: Earle Nelson & Heinrich Pommerencke; no.131: Backhouse & Hofmann (all by C.W.) £2 each.
Encounter:
vol 14, no 4 (contains CW's essay The Bridge) £2.
vol 15, no 2 (contains letters about and by CW) £2.
vol. 19, no.6 (contains CW's contribution to Going Into Europe) £2.
vol. 37, no.1 (contains CW's essay: Going Into Europe 2) £2.
Rain Taxi, Winter 1997 (contains interview with C.W. plus article by Maurice Bassett and reviews of his books). £2.
Abraxas 19 (Contains much by and about CW) £3.
The 1950's by Peter Lewis. Hardback. VG/VG. £6 (includes a chapter on the Angry Young Men and photo of C.W.)
Colin Wilson:the man and his mind by Howard Dossor. Element. Paper. G. £6
Success Stories by Harry Ritchie. Faber. Hardback. VG/VG. £9.99
Of related interest:
Lindsay, David : A Voyage to Arcturus. Paper. Reading copy £3.
Amis, Kingsley : Letters. Harper Collins.Hard. Mint. Mammoth 1200-page volume.£8. (CW mentioned)
Osborne, John : Memoirs, vols 1 & 2. Faber. Paper. VG. £3 each