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The Ninth Configuration - Signed and Inscribed -
William Peter Blatty
1978 - Harper & Row, New York - First Edition
Signed and inscribed by the author of The Exorcist.
‘In a decaying Gothic mansion hidden in a forest near the coast of the Pacific Northwest are twenty-seven men confined for the treatment of inexplicable mental disturbances.....’
This novel is a reworking of the author's previously published novel Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane whose basic concept Blatty states ‘was surely the best I have ever created,’ however the work ‘was no more than notes for a novel’. ‘But the idea mattered to me so once again I have written a novel based on it. This time I know it is the best that I can do’.
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1978 - Harper & Row, New York - First Edition
Signed and inscribed by the author of The Exorcist.‘In a decaying Gothic mansion hidden in a forest near the coast of the Pacific Northwest are twenty-seven men confined for the treatment of inexplicable mental disturbances.....’
This novel is a reworking of the author's previously published novel Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane whose basic concept Blatty states ‘was surely the best I have ever created,’ however the work ‘was no more than notes for a novel’. ‘But the idea mattered to me so once again I have written a novel based on it. This time I know it is the best that I can do’.
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Paddiana; or, Scraps and Sketches of Irish Life, Present and Past -
Dr. A. Blenkinsop [R.F. Walond]
1847 - Richard Bentley, London - First Edition
A scarce set of two near fine volumes. Entertaining early anecdotes together with a history, and Introduction to Ireland and The Irish.
With titles such as Head-Breaking; Mrs. Fogarty’s Tea Party; Cads, Fools and Beggars; Ronayne’s Ghost; The Green Traveller; The Last Pigtail; Priests: Catholic and Others; Dublin Carmen; and An Irish Stew.
In the original publisher’s gilt and green cloth, each with wood-engraved title-vignette.
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Price HK$ 7,800
1847 - Richard Bentley, London - First Edition
A scarce set of two near fine volumes. Entertaining early anecdotes together with a history, and Introduction to Ireland and The Irish. With titles such as Head-Breaking; Mrs. Fogarty’s Tea Party; Cads, Fools and Beggars; Ronayne’s Ghost; The Green Traveller; The Last Pigtail; Priests: Catholic and Others; Dublin Carmen; and An Irish Stew.
In the original publisher’s gilt and green cloth, each with wood-engraved title-vignette.
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Price HK$ 7,800
Julens Tolv Dage -
Doreen and Lars Bo
1953 - O.C. Olsen & Co, Denmark
One of 850 copies privately printed for Doreen and Lars Bo to give to friends.
A fine copy, of this personal interpretation in Danish of the traditional carol ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, written and beautifully illustrated by renowned Danish artist and illustrator Lars Bo, with gilt illustrated blue paper wrappers, and inscribed from Doreen and Lars Bo to their friends the equally renowned illustrator Ronald Searle and his wife, the journalist and publisher Kaye Webb.
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1953 - O.C. Olsen & Co, Denmark
One of 850 copies privately printed for Doreen and Lars Bo to give to friends.A fine copy, of this personal interpretation in Danish of the traditional carol ‘The Twelve Days of Christmas’, written and beautifully illustrated by renowned Danish artist and illustrator Lars Bo, with gilt illustrated blue paper wrappers, and inscribed from Doreen and Lars Bo to their friends the equally renowned illustrator Ronald Searle and his wife, the journalist and publisher Kaye Webb.
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Edinburgh Revisited -
James Bone, Hanslip Fletcher (Illustrator)
1911 - Sidgwick & Jackson, London - Number 17 of 35 copies
‘A remarkable book. . . . We know of no book which gives in so few words as this so satisfying, so complete, and so graceful a picture of Edinburgh. If you want to understand the heart of Edinburgh, you can read it here better than in a hundred guide books.’ – The Spectator
A lovely copy of this large, illustrated work on Edinburgh, with text by Bone based on his impressions and opinions of the city during a visit in 1910, and beautifully accompanied by Fletcher’s seventy-five drawings, including 16 tipped-in collotype plates and a lovely frontispiece etching depicting Edinburgh from Salisbury Craig. This copy also features an additional hand-signed etching by Fletcher, the same as frontispiece, bound in at the front.
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Price HK$ 4,000
1911 - Sidgwick & Jackson, London - Number 17 of 35 copies
‘A remarkable book. . . . We know of no book which gives in so few words as this so satisfying, so complete, and so graceful a picture of Edinburgh. If you want to understand the heart of Edinburgh, you can read it here better than in a hundred guide books.’ – The SpectatorA lovely copy of this large, illustrated work on Edinburgh, with text by Bone based on his impressions and opinions of the city during a visit in 1910, and beautifully accompanied by Fletcher’s seventy-five drawings, including 16 tipped-in collotype plates and a lovely frontispiece etching depicting Edinburgh from Salisbury Craig. This copy also features an additional hand-signed etching by Fletcher, the same as frontispiece, bound in at the front.
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Price HK$ 4,000
Peking Und Umgebung -
Boy-Ed
1907 - Verlag der Brigade-Zeitung, Tientsin
Canvassed backed colour map of Peking, 71 x 80 cm. Text in German and Chinese.
With original title, additional booksellers stamp and contemporary owner’s name to front covers
This map was also used for the photographic work of the same name published in 1906 by the printing office of the German occupation forces. According to Wittockiana very little is known about the author Boy-ed, who was first lieutenant and headed the German detachment of howitzers in Peking during the Boxer rebellion.
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Price HK$ 6,000
1907 - Verlag der Brigade-Zeitung, Tientsin
Canvassed backed colour map of Peking, 71 x 80 cm. Text in German and Chinese. With original title, additional booksellers stamp and contemporary owner’s name to front covers
This map was also used for the photographic work of the same name published in 1906 by the printing office of the German occupation forces. According to Wittockiana very little is known about the author Boy-ed, who was first lieutenant and headed the German detachment of howitzers in Peking during the Boxer rebellion.
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Rivers and streams of England -
A.G. Bradley, Sutton-Palmer
1909 - A. & C. Black, London - First Edition
A lovely account of England’s waterways by historian and author A.G. Bradley, with descriptions of the Wye, the Severn, the rivers of Devon, and the Yorkshire Dales among others, and featuring 75 colour plates illustrated by Sutton Palmer, and with a fold-out map to the rear.
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Price HK$ 1,500
1909 - A. & C. Black, London - First Edition
A lovely account of England’s waterways by historian and author A.G. Bradley, with descriptions of the Wye, the Severn, the rivers of Devon, and the Yorkshire Dales among others, and featuring 75 colour plates illustrated by Sutton Palmer, and with a fold-out map to the rear.
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Green for Danger -
Christianna Brand
1945 - John Lane The Bodley Head, London - First U.K. edition
‘In view of my failure - correction, comparative failure - I feel that I have no alternative but to offer you, sir, my resignation, in the sincere hope that you will not accept it.’
As a series of murders are committed in Heron’s Park military hospital, attentions turn to a young a British anaesthetist, though no-one has succeeded in catching him before he strikes... Featuring the wisecracking, chain-smoking, irreverent Inspector Cockrill, Brand sets the novel in the tempestuous final days World War II, as several characters put themselves under the knife in an attempt to thwart the killer’s plans.
The novel was featured as one of the Crime Writers Association’s top 100 novels of all time, and became the basis for the 1944 British Thriller film of the same name, directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Alistair Sim, Trevor Howard, and Sally Gray.
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Price HK$ 3,500
1945 - John Lane The Bodley Head, London - First U.K. edition
‘In view of my failure - correction, comparative failure - I feel that I have no alternative but to offer you, sir, my resignation, in the sincere hope that you will not accept it.’As a series of murders are committed in Heron’s Park military hospital, attentions turn to a young a British anaesthetist, though no-one has succeeded in catching him before he strikes... Featuring the wisecracking, chain-smoking, irreverent Inspector Cockrill, Brand sets the novel in the tempestuous final days World War II, as several characters put themselves under the knife in an attempt to thwart the killer’s plans.
The novel was featured as one of the Crime Writers Association’s top 100 novels of all time, and became the basis for the 1944 British Thriller film of the same name, directed by Sidney Gilliat and starring Alistair Sim, Trevor Howard, and Sally Gray.
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Price HK$ 3,500
Notes on Yachts (First Series) -
Edwin Brett
1869 - Sampson Low, London - First Edition
A superb example of this rare instructional, dealing with the design of yachts, with an short overview of yacht sailing. Illustrated with frontispiece from a drawing by John Brett, engraved by J. D. Cooper.
Despite the notification of this being the first Series in the title, there were no further series published.
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Price HK$ 2,800
1869 - Sampson Low, London - First Edition
A superb example of this rare instructional, dealing with the design of yachts, with an short overview of yacht sailing. Illustrated with frontispiece from a drawing by John Brett, engraved by J. D. Cooper.Despite the notification of this being the first Series in the title, there were no further series published.
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Price HK$ 2,800