Fiction Collection (page 3)

The Observed Corps Mystery
An illustrated front cover for The Observed Corps Mystery, written by Rex Hardinge, no. 733 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library. Date: circa 1940s

The Mystery Of The Bombed Hotel
An illustrated front cover for The Mystery Of The Bombed Hotel, written by Anthony Skene, no. 22 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library. Date: circa 1940s

Previously Reported Missing - Now?
An illustrated front cover for Previously Reported Missing - Now...?, written by Gilbert Chester, no. 66 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

The Case Of The Shot Looter
An illustrated front cover for The Case Of The Shot Looter, written by Martin Frazer, no. 5 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library. The image shows a warden being shot in the back

Raiders Passed!
An illustrated front cover for Raiders Passed!, written by John Hunter, no. 1 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library. Date: circa 1940s

The Secret Of The Evacuee
An illustrated front cover for The Secret Of The Evacuee, written by Paul Urquhart, no. 731 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

The Mystery Of The Blitzed Tower
An illustrated front cover for The Mystery Of The Blitzed Tower, written by Anthony Parsons, no. 238 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

The Case Of The Man On Leave
An illustrated front cover for The Case Of The Man On Leave, written by Gilbert Chester, no. 743 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

The Case Of The Defaulting Sailor
An illustrated front cover for The Case Of The Defaulting Sailor, written by John Hunter, no. 118 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

The Case Of The Naval Defaulter
An illustrated front cover for The Case Of The Naval Defaulter, written by Walter Tyrer, no. 219 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

The Affair Of The Spiv's Secret
An illustrated front cover for The Affair Of The Spiv's Secret, written by John Hunter, no. 170 in the pulp fiction series, The Sexton Blake Library

Lorna Doone Farm, Malmsmead, Exmoor, Somerset - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

Dorchester - The Manor House, Wool, Dorset, associated with the novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based

Cover design, Other Worlds, pulp science fiction magazine, January 1953 Date: 1953

Cover design, Imagination, Stories of Science and Fantasy, pulp fiction science fiction magazine, January 1952 Date: 1952

Cover design, Astounding Science Fiction, November 1950, pulp science fiction Date: 1950

Cover design, Super Science Stories, science fiction pulp magazine, November 1949 Date: 1949

Cover design, Startling Stories, science fiction pulp magazine, September 1947 Date: 1947

Cover design, Famous Fantastic Mysteries, pulp fiction, September 1944 Date: 1944

Cover design, Stirring Science Stories, science fiction and fantasy pulp magazine Date: 1941

Cover design, Unknown
Cover design, Street and Smith's Unknown, pulp fiction magazine Date: 1939

Cover design, Marvel Science Stories, science fiction pulp magazine Date: 1939

Cover design, Dynamic Science Stories, science fiction pulp magazine Date: 1939

Cover design, Blue Book Magazine, pulp fiction, January 1934 Date: 1934

Caricature illustration of flustered Cook and assertive Housemaid, by Stan Terry. Captioned, Facts are Stranger than Fiction'

Elinor Glyn, British novelist and scriptwriter who specialised in romantic fiction (1864-1943). Studio portrait in formal gown with autograph

Bleak House, Broadstairs, Kent, which inspired Charles Dickens novel of the same name. Date: circa 1910

Uriah Heep, law clerk in David Copperfield
Uriah Heep, law clerk in the novel David Copperfield (1849-1850) by Charles Dickens. Date: 1884

Illustration, The Newcomes, by Thackeray, showing a group of men dining at a table, with a boy standing on the left. Date: first published 1850s

Fantastic Adventures - The living Dead
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, November 1941, featuring the story The living Dead by Edgar Rice Burroughs. A tiger with pincers fights a weird looking red lion while a woman climb up a tree to

Fantastic Adventures - The Lavender vine of death
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, September 1948, featuring the story The Lavender vine of death by Don Wilcox. A huge purple monster devours a modern building

Fantastic Adventures - Death plays a game
Cover of Fantastic Adventures, December 1941, featuring the story Death plays a game by David V. Reed. A alien is holding a futuristic gun which is directed at a blue suited terrified looking man

Monument to Daniel Defoe, Bunhill Fields, London
Monument (erected 1870) above the grave of Daniel Defoe (1661-1731), English journalist and novelist, in Bunhill Fields, London. Date: 19th century

Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy, American writer
Amelie Louise Rives Troubetzkoy (1863-1945), American novelist, poet and playwright, best known for two novels: The Quick or The Dead? (1888) and World's End (1914). Date: 1914

Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist and essayist
Salman Rushdie (Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie, b 1947), British-Indian novelist and essayist. Date: circa 1980s

Alan Sillitoe, English novelist
Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010), English novelist, best known for his novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958), which was made into a film (1960). Seen here (right). Date: circa 1960s

C P Snow, physicist, novelist and civil servant
C P Snow (Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow of the City Of Leicester, 1905-1980), English physicist, novelist and civil servant. Best known for his series of novels entitled Strangers and Brothers

Muriel Spark, Scottish novelist
Muriel Spark (1918-2006), Scottish novelist, best known for her novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. Date: circa 1960s

Mikhail Sholokhov, Soviet Russian novelist
Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov (1905-1984), Soviet Russian novelist, winner of the 1965 Nobel Prize for Literature. Best known for his novel, Quiet Flows the Don. Date: circa 1960s

Irving Wallace, American author and screenwriter
Irving Wallace (1916-1990), American bestselling author and screenwriter. Date: circa 1970s

Fay Weldon, English author, essayist and playwright
Fay Weldon (b 1931), English author, essayist and playwright, whose work has a strong feminist element. Date: circa 1980s

J B Priestley, British author, playwright and broadcaster
J B (John Boynton) Priestley (1894-1984), British author, playwright and broadcaster. Date: circa 1970s

Iris Murdoch, British novelist and philosopher
Iris Murdoch (1919-1999), Irish-born British author and philosopher, best known for her novels. Date: circa 1980s

Brendan Behan, Irish writer and republican
Brendan Behan (Brendan Francis Behan, 1923-1964), Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright who wrote in both Irish and English. He was also an Irish republican and IRA volunteer

William Morris, artist, writer, publisher and socialist
William Morris (1834-1896), English textile designer, artist, writer, publisher and socialist, associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement

Compton Mackenzie, novelist and nationalist
Compton Mackenzie (Sir Edward Montague Compton Mackenzie, 1883-1972), English-born Scottish novelist and nationalist. Aside from his writing he also worked as an actor

Hanif Kureishi, English writer
Hanif Kureishi (b 1954), English playwright, screenwriter and filmmaker, novelist and short story writer. Date: circa 1980s

Graham Greene, English writer, in old age
Graham Greene (Henry Graham Greene, 1904-1991), English author, playwright and literary critic, best known for his novels focusing around Roman Catholicism and morality: Brighton Rock

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