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Icebreaker -
John Gardner
1983 - Jonathan Cape and Hodder &, 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 &, 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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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
Howl and Other Poems -
Allen Ginsberg, William Carlos Williams (introduction)
1956 - City Lights Pocket Bookshop, San Francisco - First Edition, First Printing
Nice example of Ginsberg's revolutionary poem, which had been seized by the U.S. Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee soon after publication, setting off one of the most important episodes in the battle for freedom of the press, and against censorship.
This is the first printing, with the dedication to Lucien Carr still present, a period after "Harlem" on the rear cover, and "75 cents" lettered in light blue on rear cover.
‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,’
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Price HK$ 32,000
1956 - City Lights Pocket Bookshop, San Francisco - First Edition, First Printing
Nice example of Ginsberg's revolutionary poem, which had been seized by the U.S. Collector of Customs Chester MacPhee soon after publication, setting off one of the most important episodes in the battle for freedom of the press, and against censorship.This is the first printing, with the dedication to Lucien Carr still present, a period after "Harlem" on the rear cover, and "75 cents" lettered in light blue on rear cover.
‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,
angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night,
who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz,’
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Price HK$ 32,000
A Jury of Her Peers -
Susan Glaspell
1927 - Ernest Benn Limited, London - First Edition. One of 250 Copies
A fine first edition, one of only 250 printed, each signed by the author. A Queen’s Quorum title.
Glaspell’s classic story based on a case of spousal abuse that Glaspell had covered as a journalist. Demonstrating that two housewives from the American heartland are able to discover the motive for a murder identifying certain clues that the blundering male police are unlikely to comprehend.
Although included in America for a number of anthologies, ‘A Jury of Her Peers’ was never actually published in any Glaspell’s own books until being selected by Ernest Benn of London to be one of their ‘Benn's Yellow Books’ titles.
In the 1970’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’ was rediscovered as an early work of feminist literature ‘applauding its innovative exploration of the gender inequalities affecting women’s lives in both the public and private spheres’.
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Price HK$ 4,500
1927 - Ernest Benn Limited, London - First Edition. One of 250 Copies
A fine first edition, one of only 250 printed, each signed by the author. A Queen’s Quorum title.Glaspell’s classic story based on a case of spousal abuse that Glaspell had covered as a journalist. Demonstrating that two housewives from the American heartland are able to discover the motive for a murder identifying certain clues that the blundering male police are unlikely to comprehend.
Although included in America for a number of anthologies, ‘A Jury of Her Peers’ was never actually published in any Glaspell’s own books until being selected by Ernest Benn of London to be one of their ‘Benn's Yellow Books’ titles.
In the 1970’s ‘A Jury of Her Peers’ was rediscovered as an early work of feminist literature ‘applauding its innovative exploration of the gender inequalities affecting women’s lives in both the public and private spheres’.
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Price HK$ 4,500
A" Is for Alibi. A Kinsey Millhone Mystery - Inscribed -
Sue Grafton
1982 - Holt, New York - First Edition
A fine copy, inscribed –
For Becky with warmest regards
from Kinsey & me
Sue Grafton
Sue 10-27-85
Introducing the sassy California private eye Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton’s alter ego, one of the earliest females of the hard-boiled detective variety – ‘There’s no place in a p.i.’s life for impatience, faintheartedness, or sloppiness. I understand the same qualifications apply for housewives’.
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Price HK$ 12,000
1982 - Holt, New York - First Edition
A fine copy, inscribed –For Becky with warmest regards
from Kinsey & me
Sue Grafton
Sue 10-27-85
Introducing the sassy California private eye Kinsey Millhone, Sue Grafton’s alter ego, one of the earliest females of the hard-boiled detective variety – ‘There’s no place in a p.i.’s life for impatience, faintheartedness, or sloppiness. I understand the same qualifications apply for housewives’.
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Price HK$ 12,000
Gun Cotton - Adventurer - Inscribed -
Rupert Grayson
1933 - Grayson &, London - First Edition
Inscribed ‘With best wishes to my old friend Arthur Richardson from Rupert Grayson’.
This time Gun Cotton sails for New York.
First edition of the third ‘Gun Cotton’ book, in a bright example of the scarce and delicate dust jacket.
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Price HK$ 8,000
1933 - Grayson &, London - First Edition
Inscribed ‘With best wishes to my old friend Arthur Richardson from Rupert Grayson’. This time Gun Cotton sails for New York.
First edition of the third ‘Gun Cotton’ book, in a bright example of the scarce and delicate dust jacket.
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Price HK$ 8,000
Brighton Rock -
Graham Greene
1938 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Graham Greene’s exposé of violence and gang warfare. Spine with bright gilt and no fading, no foxing, no inscriptions, scarce thus.
The chilling tale of teenage mob-leader Pinkie; a masterpiece of psycho-realism, a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the 'appalling strangeness of the mercy of God' withholds easy judgement as a narrative takes us through the moral question of what is simultaneously fascinating and repellent.
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Price HK$ 10,000
1938 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Graham Greene’s exposé of violence and gang warfare. Spine with bright gilt and no fading, no foxing, no inscriptions, scarce thus.The chilling tale of teenage mob-leader Pinkie; a masterpiece of psycho-realism, a fascinating study of evil, sin, and the 'appalling strangeness of the mercy of God' withholds easy judgement as a narrative takes us through the moral question of what is simultaneously fascinating and repellent.
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Price HK$ 10,000