Nicholas Blake

	The Case of the Abominable Snowman - Nicholas Blake 1941 UK hardback first edition, first impression, Collins Crime Club, London A VG+ book in VG+ price clipped dustwrapper No names inscriptions etc, clean contents and cloth, tight and square Jacket has had some restoration to spine ends and tips. This has been superbly done by the worlds leading exponent. A lovely copy of a rare book, the restoration is virtualy unnoticeable from the outside For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	The Whisper in the gloom - Nicholas Blake 1954 English hardcover first edition, first impression, Collins Crime Club, London A VG+ book sadly without dustwrapper No names inscriptions or stamps etc Tight and square with clean contents and cloth A solid copy with just a little edge tanning Would take a jacket For Sale at £10 (approx $17) *P9 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Nicholas Blake - The Whisper in the Gloom 1959 UK Pan paperback first edition A clean, tightly bound and attractive period copy. Now out of print For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) *DF1 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Nicholas Blake - The Widow's Cruise 1961 UK Fontana paperback first edition A clean, tightly bound and attractive period copy. Now out of print For Sale at £6.50 (approx $10) *DF1 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Blake Nicholas - Malice in Wonderland 1947 UK hardback 4th impression, Collins Crime Club, London A VG+ book in VG+ unclipped dust wrapper A nice copy and a viable alternative to the very rare and expensive first impression For Sale at SOLD£17 (approx $27) *S - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	The Sad Variety - Nicholas Blake 1964 UK hardback first edition, first impression, Collins Crime Club, London A VG+ book in VG+ price clipped dustwrapper No names inscriptions etc Jacket shows closed tear and minor edge rubbing A clean attractive copy. Now out of print For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) * - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Blake Nicholas - End of the Chapter 1958 UK Fontana paperback first edition A clean, tightly bound and attractive period copy. Now out of print For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) *DF1 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Blake Nicholas - A Tangled Web 1959 UK Fontana paperback first edition A clean, tightly bound and attractive period copy. Now out of print For Sale at £SOLD (approx $SOLD) *DF1 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart

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Brief Biography BLAKE, Nicholas. Pseudonym for Cecil Day Lewis. British. Born in Ballintubbert, Queen's County (now County Laois). Ireland, 27 April 1904; brought to England in 1905. Educated at Wilkie's Preparatory School, London. 1912-17; Sherborne School. Dorset, 1917-23; Wadham College, Oxford, 1923-27, B. A. 1927. M. A. Served as an Editor in the Ministry of Information, London, 1941-46. Married 1) Mary King in 1928 (divorced. 1951), two sons; also one other son; 2) Jill Balcon in 1951, one daughter and one son. Assistant Master, Summer Fields School, Oxford, 1927-28; Master, Larchfield School, Helensburgh, Dunbartonshire, 1928-30, and Cheltenham Junior School, Gloucestershire, 1930-35; reader, John Lehmann Ltd., publishers, London, 1946; readerfrom 1946, and Director from 1954, Chatto and Windus, publishers, London. Professor of Poetry, Oxford University, 1951-56; Norton Professor of Poetry, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-65. Clark Lecturer, 1946, and Sidgwick Lecturer, 1956, Cambridge University; Warton Lecturer, British Academy, London, 1951; Byron Lecturer, University of Nottingham, 1952; Chancellor Dunning Lecturer, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, 1954; Compton Lecturer, University of Hull, Yorkshire, 1968. Member, Arts Council of Great Britain, 1962-67: Chairman of the Poetry, later Literature, Panel. Honorary Fellow, Wadham College, 1968. D. Litt: University of Exeter; 1965; University of Hull, 1970; Litt.D.; Trinity College, Dublin, 1968. Fellow-1944, Vice-President, 1959, and Companion of Literature, 1965. Royal Society of Literature; Honorary Member, American Academy, 1966; Member, Irish Academy of Letters, 1968. C.B.E. (Commander, Order of the British Empire), 1950. Poet Laureate, 1968. Died 22 May 1972.

Series Characters Nigel Strangeways Nigel Strangeways is a young private investigator with sandy colored hair which droops over his forehead, causing him to resemble an overgrown prep school boy. He is six feet tall and has short-sighted blue eyes. He spots and falls in love with the attractive explorer, Georgia Cavendish. After their marriage, the Strangeways live in London, in a comfortable flat facing a 17th century square. When war clouds gather over Europe, the couple purchase a house in rural Devonshire. Georgia is killed during World War II, and Nigel is understandably depressed. His eventual recovery is hastened by a romance with sculptress Clare Massinger.

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