Search Results: saint errant by charteris leslie 1907 1993

London: Hhodder & Stoughton, 1953. Hardcover. Octavo; Second impression; G+/G+; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine, yellow with black print; DJ has light edgewear, else clean and bright; Boards in blue cloth, light wear to spine caps else clean and strong; Text block clean and tight; 190 pages. 1358154. FP New Rockville Stock.

London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1949. [Thriller] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.253; [1], advert. Elegantly hand-bound in half brown calf over matching cloth sides, spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands, original cloth spine preserved at rear. Contents clean with some light spotting to first and final leaves, exterior as new. A near fine copy in an attractive recent leather binding. Short stories covering the suave hero's deadly escapades with the opposite sex, including 'Judith aka The Naughty Niece', 'Jeannine aka The Lovely Sinner' and 'Luella aka The Saint and the Double Badger'. According to Paul Simpson (The Rough Guide to James Bond, p.47), 'The Saint' is a literary ancestor of 007, the debonair Simon Templar being a gentleman adventurer whose parallels with Bond are obvious. Steinbrunner & Penzler, pp.349-351. See also Gilbert, p.616.