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The Snow Goose -
Paul Gallico
1941 - Michael Joseph Ltd, London - First Edition
First edition of Paul Gallico’s classic novella, the intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes with the backdrop of World War II.
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1941 - Michael Joseph Ltd, London - First Edition
First edition of Paul Gallico’s classic novella, the intense and moving tale about the relationship between a hunchback and a young girl set in the wild, desolate Essex marshes with the backdrop of World War II.
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The Forsyte Saga -
John Galsworthy
1922 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition, First Issue
First edition of Galsworthy’s sweeping literary masterpiece ‘The Forsyte Saga’, tracking the lives of an upper-middle-class family across three generations from the 1870s to the 1920s.
In an elegant contemporary binding by Maurin.
Bringing together the three novels and two ‘Interludes’ for the first time under the title ‘The Forsyte Saga’, originally published as The Man of Property (1906), Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918), In Chancery (1920), Awakening (1920), and To Let (1921), together with an introductory essay by Galsworthy.
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1922 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition, First Issue
First edition of Galsworthy’s sweeping literary masterpiece ‘The Forsyte Saga’, tracking the lives of an upper-middle-class family across three generations from the 1870s to the 1920s.In an elegant contemporary binding by Maurin.
Bringing together the three novels and two ‘Interludes’ for the first time under the title ‘The Forsyte Saga’, originally published as The Man of Property (1906), Indian Summer of a Forsyte (1918), In Chancery (1920), Awakening (1920), and To Let (1921), together with an introductory essay by Galsworthy.
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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.’
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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.’
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Nobody Lives Forever -
John Gardner
1986 - Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of the fifth James Bond novel by James Gardner, who, after a stint as a commando with the Royal Marines, studied theology at Cambridge, had a short career as an Anglican priest before finally turning to writing.
‘Take care 007. Take special care. The continent’s a hotbed of villainy these days and you can never be too careful.’
Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond’s hand, is determined to make it the holiday to die for.
The dust jacket for Nobody Lives For Ever was designed by Trevor Scobie and is the last novel to have its first edition cover in the iconic style of Richard Chopping. Chopping had previously drawn nine Ian Fleming novels from 1956 to 1966 as well as Gardener's Licence Renewed in 1981.
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Price HK$ 1,200
1986 - Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of the fifth James Bond novel by James Gardner, who, after a stint as a commando with the Royal Marines, studied theology at Cambridge, had a short career as an Anglican priest before finally turning to writing.‘Take care 007. Take special care. The continent’s a hotbed of villainy these days and you can never be too careful.’
Bond was supposed to be on leave. But SPECTRE leader Tamil Rahani, dying from injuries suffered at Bond’s hand, is determined to make it the holiday to die for.
The dust jacket for Nobody Lives For Ever was designed by Trevor Scobie and is the last novel to have its first edition cover in the iconic style of Richard Chopping. Chopping had previously drawn nine Ian Fleming novels from 1956 to 1966 as well as Gardener's Licence Renewed in 1981.
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Price HK$ 1,200
Icebreaker -
John Gardner
1983 - Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of the third James Bond novel by James Gardner, who, after a stint as a commando with the Royal Marines, studied theology at Cambridge, had a short career as an Anglican priest before finally turning to writing.
‘A deadly assignment undertaken in cohort with Bond’s opposite numbers from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Israel in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland’
One of the final Bond titles to be issued in the same size format as the original Fleming titles, and with the Chopping style dust jacket by Bill Botten.
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Price HK$ 1,200
1983 - Jonathan Cape and Hodder & Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of the third James Bond novel by James Gardner, who, after a stint as a commando with the Royal Marines, studied theology at Cambridge, had a short career as an Anglican priest before finally turning to writing.‘A deadly assignment undertaken in cohort with Bond’s opposite numbers from the United States, the Soviet Union, and Israel in the desolate Arctic wastes of Lapland’
One of the final Bond titles to be issued in the same size format as the original Fleming titles, and with the Chopping style dust jacket by Bill Botten.
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Price HK$ 1,200
The Master Spy -
Arthur Gask
1937 - The Macaulay Company, New York - First American Edition
Featuring detective Gilbert Larose. As a last resort the Secret Service recruits Larose to track down an unknown agent who is stealing secrets from arsenals and aircraft factories throughout Great Britain.
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1937 - The Macaulay Company, New York - First American Edition
Featuring detective Gilbert Larose. As a last resort the Secret Service recruits Larose to track down an unknown agent who is stealing secrets from arsenals and aircraft factories throughout Great Britain.
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The Concrete Castle Murders -
Francis Gérard
1936 - Henry Holt and Company, New York - First American Edition
An exceptional example of Gérard’s second novel, continuing the adventures of Inspector John Meredith of the C.I.D. and Detective-Sergeant Beef.
In a pristine dust jacket designed by Nat Falk (1898-1989).
First American edition (May 1936), published the same year in London by Rich & Crown as ‘Concrete Castle’.
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1936 - Henry Holt and Company, New York - First American Edition
An exceptional example of Gérard’s second novel, continuing the adventures of Inspector John Meredith of the C.I.D. and Detective-Sergeant Beef.In a pristine dust jacket designed by Nat Falk (1898-1989).
First American edition (May 1936), published the same year in London by Rich & Crown as ‘Concrete Castle’.
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Stay of Execution, and Other Stories of Legal Practices -
Michael Gilbert
1971 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition without foxing, in a fine dust jacket, scarce as such.
Gilbert, a rather self-effacing lawyer with a dry sense of humour, was well known as a natural storyteller, a good examples of which can be seen in two of these short stories in which rascally solicitors "get away with it", ‘Back on the Shelf’ and ‘Mr Portway's Practice’, they were also written in the first person.
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Price HK$ 3,800
1971 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A fine first edition without foxing, in a fine dust jacket, scarce as such.Gilbert, a rather self-effacing lawyer with a dry sense of humour, was well known as a natural storyteller, a good examples of which can be seen in two of these short stories in which rascally solicitors "get away with it", ‘Back on the Shelf’ and ‘Mr Portway's Practice’, they were also written in the first person.
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Price HK$ 3,800