Satan in St Mary’s -
P. C. Doherty
1986 - Robert Hale, London - First Edition
A scarce example of the first edition in near fine dust jacket.
The first book in this series of English medieval mysteries featuring Hugh Corbett, a clerk to the King's Bench in the latter part of the reign of Edward I.
More details
Price HK$ 4,500
1986 - Robert Hale, London - First Edition
A scarce example of the first edition in near fine dust jacket.The first book in this series of English medieval mysteries featuring Hugh Corbett, a clerk to the King's Bench in the latter part of the reign of Edward I.
More details
Price HK$ 4,500
The Lost World -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1912 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
‘So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.’
From the brilliant mind of Arthur Conan Doyle comes a a classic tale of adventure and exploration. The first in the Challenger novel series, join heroes Edward Malon and Professor Challenger as they travel to a Lost World in the Amazon forest where dinosaurs, Pterodactyls, Cave Men, and other prehistoric creatures are found to be co-existing, cut off from the rest of the world.
Illustrated with eight lithographic plates, including a photographic frontispiece of members of the expedition, featuring Doyle wearing a fake beard as Professor Challenger.
More details
Price HK$ 9,000
1912 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
‘So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.’From the brilliant mind of Arthur Conan Doyle comes a a classic tale of adventure and exploration. The first in the Challenger novel series, join heroes Edward Malon and Professor Challenger as they travel to a Lost World in the Amazon forest where dinosaurs, Pterodactyls, Cave Men, and other prehistoric creatures are found to be co-existing, cut off from the rest of the world.
Illustrated with eight lithographic plates, including a photographic frontispiece of members of the expedition, featuring Doyle wearing a fake beard as Professor Challenger.
More details
Price HK$ 9,000
The King’s General -
Daphne Du Maurier
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine copy in fine and thus scarce delicate yellow Gollancz dust jacket. Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca.
Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a Cornish family riven by civil war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone.
As Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries and makes enemies, Honor remains true to him, and finally discovers the secret of Menabilly...
More details
Price HK$ 2,000
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine copy in fine and thus scarce delicate yellow Gollancz dust jacket. Inspired by a grisly discovery in the nineteenth century, The King's General was the first of du Maurier's novels to be written at Menabilly, the model for Manderley in Rebecca.Set in the seventeenth century, it tells the story of a country and a Cornish family riven by civil war, and features one of fiction's most original heroines. Honor Harris is only eighteen when she first meets Richard Grenvile, proud, reckless - and utterly captivating. But following a riding accident, Honor must reconcile herself to a life alone.
As Richard rises through the ranks of the army, marries and makes enemies, Honor remains true to him, and finally discovers the secret of Menabilly...
More details
Price HK$ 2,000
The Life of an Actor. Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Twenty-seven Characteristic Scenes, etched by Theodore Lane; Enriched also with Several Original Designs on Wood, executed by Mr. Thompson -
Pierce Egan, T. Greenwood, Theodore Lane (illustrator)
1825 - Printed for C.S. Arnold, London - First Edition
A finely bound example of Pierce Egan’s wonderful and amusing novel centred around Peregrine Proteus, and his various highs and lows attempting to pursue a career in acting. Dedicate to the Edmund Kean (1789-1833) the greatest of English tragic actors, a turbulent genius noted as much for his megalomania and ungovernable behaviour as for his portrayals of villains in Shakespearean plays.
Illustrated with twenty-seven hand-coloured aquatint plates by Theodore Lane and nine woodcut engravings by John Thompson (1785-1866).
More details
Price HK$ 15,000
1825 - Printed for C.S. Arnold, London - First Edition
A finely bound example of Pierce Egan’s wonderful and amusing novel centred around Peregrine Proteus, and his various highs and lows attempting to pursue a career in acting. Dedicate to the Edmund Kean (1789-1833) the greatest of English tragic actors, a turbulent genius noted as much for his megalomania and ungovernable behaviour as for his portrayals of villains in Shakespearean plays.Illustrated with twenty-seven hand-coloured aquatint plates by Theodore Lane and nine woodcut engravings by John Thompson (1785-1866).
More details
Price HK$ 15,000
The Fashionable Savages - Inscribed -
John Fairchild
1965 - Doubleday & Company, New York - First Edition
“Fashion is temptation and thousands of busy minds and busy hands are at work”
First edition, inscribed: "Thank you for enjoying the chapter on Chanel, John Fairchild !"
‘John Fairchild, the pugnacious, eagle-eyed Princeton grad and newspaper scion who died today, transformed fashion reporting by refusing to treat designers with deference, and by turning the spotlight on the beautiful society people who wore it. He leaves an enormous legacy, two pieces of which are the books he published in 1965 and 1989 respectively: The Fashionable Savages and Chic Savages, which contain profiles of designers and their acolytes, as well as many pithy bon mots.’ – Vogue February 27, 2015.
“Clothes don’t change each season. Designers just work on the cut and change the technique. No designer can escape the three shapes.”
More details
Price HK$ 3,500
1965 - Doubleday & Company, New York - First Edition
“Fashion is temptation and thousands of busy minds and busy hands are at work”First edition, inscribed: "Thank you for enjoying the chapter on Chanel, John Fairchild !"
‘John Fairchild, the pugnacious, eagle-eyed Princeton grad and newspaper scion who died today, transformed fashion reporting by refusing to treat designers with deference, and by turning the spotlight on the beautiful society people who wore it. He leaves an enormous legacy, two pieces of which are the books he published in 1965 and 1989 respectively: The Fashionable Savages and Chic Savages, which contain profiles of designers and their acolytes, as well as many pithy bon mots.’ – Vogue February 27, 2015.
“Clothes don’t change each season. Designers just work on the cut and change the technique. No designer can escape the three shapes.”
More details
Price HK$ 3,500
The Wild Palms -
William Faulkner
1939 - Chatto & Windus, London - First English Edition [same year as the First American Edition]
A combination of two interwoven stories, ‘The Wild Palms’ and ‘Old Man’. Later published as ‘If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem’.
‘In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed wiht fatal injuries of the spirit.’ [from a later edition]
More details
Price HK$ 4,500
1939 - Chatto & Windus, London - First English Edition [same year as the First American Edition]
A combination of two interwoven stories, ‘The Wild Palms’ and ‘Old Man’. Later published as ‘If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem’.‘In New Orleans in 1937, a man and a woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion, fleeing her husband and the temptations of respectability. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his own chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories Faulkner composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation, survival and self-sacrifice, a novel in which elemental danger is juxtaposed wiht fatal injuries of the spirit.’ [from a later edition]
More details
Price HK$ 4,500
For the Defense: Dr. Thorndyke -
R. Austin Freeman
1934 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
Superb example in bright sharp dust jacket
More details
Price HK$ 3,500
1934 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
Superb example in bright sharp dust jacket
More details
Price HK$ 3,500
The D. A. Cooks a Goose - Inscribed -
Erle Stanley Gardner
1941 - William Morrow and Company, New York - First Edition
First edition, inscribed to his secretary Louise Weissberger - ‘To Louise, Who is one of the the fiction factory with much love, yours Erle’ and signed ‘Erle Stanley Gardner’.
‘A midnight hit-and-run accident on a lonely mountain road...
a tragic fatality
discovery of the missing car...
and Doug Selby, District Attorney of Madison City, finds himself not only up against a most involved case but in the hottest spot of his career.’
More details
Price HK$ 12,000
1941 - William Morrow and Company, New York - First Edition
First edition, inscribed to his secretary Louise Weissberger - ‘To Louise, Who is one of the the fiction factory with much love, yours Erle’ and signed ‘Erle Stanley Gardner’.‘A midnight hit-and-run accident on a lonely mountain road...
a tragic fatality
discovery of the missing car...
and Doug Selby, District Attorney of Madison City, finds himself not only up against a most involved case but in the hottest spot of his career.’
More details
Price HK$ 12,000