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Sleeping Murder. Miss Marple s Last Case - Agatha Christie

1976 - Collins Crime Club, London - First Edition
An exquisitely bound first edition of Miss Marple’s last case.

“Soon after Gwenda moved into her new home, odd things started to happen. Despite her best efforts to modernise the house, she only succeeded in dredging up the past. Worse, she felt an irrational sense of terror every time she climbed the stairs. In fear, Gwenda turns to Miss Marple to exorcise her ghosts. Between them, can they solve a crime committed many years before?”
 
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Crooked House - Agatha Christie

1949 - Published for The Crime Club by Collins, London - First English Edition
Curious thing, rooms. Tell you quite a lot about the people who live in them’ – Chief Inspector Taverner.

Three generations of the Leonides family have live under the same roof of Three Gables, a large household over which the very old and very rich Aristide Leonides has long presided. However he was murdered by a poisoner, perhaps a member of his own family?

Agatha Christie once said ‘
Writing Crooked House was pure pleasure and I feel justified in my belief that it is one of my best.’ 
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My African Journey - Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

1908 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
Finely bound first edition, with 61 illustrations from photographs by the Churchill and Lieutenant-Colonel Gordon Wilson, and three maps.

Originally serialised in the Strand Magazine, Churchill's account of British territory in East Africa represents the author at his journalistic best. Because it was written, or perhaps dictated, on the spot, it echoes much of the freshness to be found in '
Malakand Field Force' and is a showcase for Churchill's powers of observation. 'My African Journey' may not be among his best-known works but is certainly one of his best. 
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Artemis Fowl; The Arctic Incident; The Eternity Code; The Opal Deception; The Lost Colony; The Time Paradox; The Atlantis Complex; The Last Guardian - Eoin Colfer

2001-12 - Viking / Puffin, London - First Editions
A complete first edition set of the eight volume Artemis Fowl series.

Following elf Holly Short, officer of the Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance (LEPRecon), as she faces the forces of criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl II; later on in the cycle the adversaries are forced to work together, gradually becoming firm friends/brief love interests while saving the world.

In the first book ‘Twelve-year-old criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has discovered a world below ground of armed and dangerous— and extremely high-tech — fairies. He kidnaps one of them, Holly Short, and holds her for ransom in an effort to restore his family’s fortune. But he may have underestimated the fairies’ powers. Is he about to trigger a cross-species war?’
 
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The Savoy Cocktail Book - Harry Craddock

1930 - Richard R. Smith Inc., New York - First American Edition
A mint and thus reassuringly rare example of the Mixologist’s Bible. Featuring 750 cocktails, with marvellous art-deco colour illustrations and decorations throughout by Gilbert Rumbold, in original art-deco illustrated covers, using a shiny gold foil transfer which on this copy is bright and sharp and untouched. Suitably house in a custom clamshell case of black morocco leather, spine lettered in gilt and interior lined with velvet.

The way to drink a cocktail is quickly, while it's still laughing at you.’

Harry Craddock left the United States during Prohibition and came to the Savoy in 1920. He became the star of the American Bar and is credited with inventing the White Lady and popularised classics such as the Dry Martini.

With the
Pegu Club Cocktail on page 120, ‘The Favourite Cocktail of the Pegu club, Burma,and one that has travelled, and is asked for, round the world.' 
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The Hound of the Baskervilles. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sidney Paget (illustrator)

1902 - George Newnes, London - First Edition First Issue [misprint 'you' for 'your' p.13 line 3]
A finely bound first edition of this legendary and terrifying mystery in which Holmes and Watson must investigate the menacing devil-beast that haunts the moors around the Baskerville ancestral home. Dramatically illustrated with sixteen plates by Sidney Paget. To be read in a big leather armchair on a stormy night, whisky to hand.

Sherlock Holmes still remains the world’s best-known and best-loved fictional detective’ and
The Hound of the Baskervilles one of the most desirable and classic works of detective fiction. Arguably the great detective's most charismatic case; "Holmes is at his very best, and it is a highly dramatic idea" - Doyle, to his mother, 2nd April 1902. 
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Unexplored Baluchistan - Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer

1882 - Griffith &, London - First Edition
For a year and a half beginning in 1876, English explorer, linguist and telegraph official Ernest Ayscoghe Floyer explored the desert plateau spanning modern-day Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, an area known at the time as Baluchistan.

Housed in a bespoke leather tipped green moire silk covered slipcase, and illustrated with a fold-out colour map of the author’s route, a portrait frontispiece and eleven illustrations (ten full-page and one in-text).

This rare first edition traces Floyer’s journeys from Jask to Bampur, through the Persian Gulf, and from Jask to Kerman via Angohran. It has a map as well as appendices on the dialects of western Baluchistan and plants Floyer collected on his travels, and is the book that established Floyer as an explorer.

The preface is by Sir Frederic Goldsmid, the man who helped establish the boundaries of the British empire in Baluchistan, and for whom the nearly 1000-kilometre Iran-Pakistan border – also known as the ‘Goldsmid Line’ – is named.
 
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Green Willow and other Japanese Fairy Tales - Grace James, Warwick Goble (illustrator)

1910 - Macmillan and Co., London - Edition de Luxe, one of 500 copies.
The deluxe edition of this lovely collection of tales and legends, many of them sourced from the Ko-ji-ki, or Record of Ancient Matters, which contains the mythology of Japan, selected and translated by the Japanese born Grace James (1882-1965) and beautifully illustrated with forty tipped-in colour plates by Warwick Goble, each one laid on brown card and with a descriptive tissue guard.

Stories include ‘Flower of the Peony’, ‘Green Willow’, ‘Tamamo, ‘The Fox Maiden’, ‘The Flute’, ‘The Moon Maiden’, and ‘The Wind in the Pine Tree’, among many others.

A superior example, housed in custom made two part tan morocco slipcase, with twin gilt labels.
 
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