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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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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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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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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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Tragedy at Wembley. A Tale of Inspector Higgins -
Cecil Freeman Gregg
1936 - The Dial Press, New York - First American Edition
The thirteenth title to feature Inspector Cuthbert Higgins of Scotland Yard, who, returning from home long after midnight stumbles in the darkness over the body of a uniformed constable...
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1936 - The Dial Press, New York - First American Edition
The thirteenth title to feature Inspector Cuthbert Higgins of Scotland Yard, who, returning from home long after midnight stumbles in the darkness over the body of a uniformed constable...
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The Third Case of Mr. Paul Savoy - Inscribed -
Jackson Gregory
1934 - Hodder &, London - First English Edition
Wonderfully inscribed English first edition in a superb example of the rare dust jacket designed by Frank Sherwin.
‘Hi!
Bob Hunt –
Met that fine upstanding dad of yours & he said that some times in an idle moment you read a book of mine. –
Careful, Kid; dont start in with too many bad habits at your age. Anyhow, here’s luck –
Jackson Gregory’
‘The Third Case’ as described by the publisher - “To Sylvester Paradene, eccentric and sinister millionaire, the 'Sport of Kings' was a manhunt, with the criminal, preferably a murderer, doubling and twisting in his efforts to elude the hounds of the law, and with Mr. Paradene, chuckling, looking on. So, to an isolated mountain mansion in California Mr. Paradene invited a group of potential 'hunted' and two 'hunters' – Paul Savoy and Detective Gateway.
Then Mr. Paradene baited his delightful trap with a $50,000 emerald, and waited. He was looking for murder and he got it, three-fold but neither Paradene nor the murderer reckoned with Paul Savoy, who in his own brilliant fashion solves a murder case that is among the most baffling in current fiction.” [from the American edition]
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1934 - Hodder &, London - First English Edition
Wonderfully inscribed English first edition in a superb example of the rare dust jacket designed by Frank Sherwin.‘Hi!
Bob Hunt –
Met that fine upstanding dad of yours & he said that some times in an idle moment you read a book of mine. –
Careful, Kid; dont start in with too many bad habits at your age. Anyhow, here’s luck –
Jackson Gregory’
‘The Third Case’ as described by the publisher - “To Sylvester Paradene, eccentric and sinister millionaire, the 'Sport of Kings' was a manhunt, with the criminal, preferably a murderer, doubling and twisting in his efforts to elude the hounds of the law, and with Mr. Paradene, chuckling, looking on. So, to an isolated mountain mansion in California Mr. Paradene invited a group of potential 'hunted' and two 'hunters' – Paul Savoy and Detective Gateway.
Then Mr. Paradene baited his delightful trap with a $50,000 emerald, and waited. He was looking for murder and he got it, three-fold but neither Paradene nor the murderer reckoned with Paul Savoy, who in his own brilliant fashion solves a murder case that is among the most baffling in current fiction.” [from the American edition]
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The Hoods -
Harry Grey (Pseud. Herschel Goldberg)
1952 - Crown Publishers, New York - First Edition
A rare first edition in unfaded dust jacket. The first novel by Harry Grey (Herschel Goldberg) later to become Sergio Leone’s epic ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ (1984) starring Robert DeNiro loosely playing Harry's life as David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson.
A partly autobiographical account of Goldberg, a Ukrainian born Jewish gangster in New York's Lower East Side between 1910 and 1933, legend has it that this was written whilst incarcerated in the notorious Sing-Sing prison, using the pseudonym Harry Grey to protect his family.
Housed in a bespoke black clamshell case with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt.
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1952 - Crown Publishers, New York - First Edition
A rare first edition in unfaded dust jacket. The first novel by Harry Grey (Herschel Goldberg) later to become Sergio Leone’s epic ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ (1984) starring Robert DeNiro loosely playing Harry's life as David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson.A partly autobiographical account of Goldberg, a Ukrainian born Jewish gangster in New York's Lower East Side between 1910 and 1933, legend has it that this was written whilst incarcerated in the notorious Sing-Sing prison, using the pseudonym Harry Grey to protect his family.
Housed in a bespoke black clamshell case with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt.
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The Secret of Tangles. Another Case for Anthony Slade and Department X -
Leonard R. Gribble
1934 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia - First American Edition
Fine publisher’s copy with ‘File Copy. Not to be removed from office’ stamped to front fly leaf.
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1934 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia - First American Edition
Fine publisher’s copy with ‘File Copy. Not to be removed from office’ stamped to front fly leaf.
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Gas Light. A Victorian Thriller in Three Acts -
Patrick Hamilton
1939 - Constable and Company Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition of this highlight work, scarce in this condition.
‘A Broadway hit first produced in London under the title ‘Gaslight’, 'Gas Light' tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in the 19th Century. The secret of the dimming gaslight and the mystery of the hidden rubies will captivate all.’ [Stageplays] Vincent Price arranged the rights for the Broadway production renamed it 'Angel Street' and starred in it, closing after 1,295 performances.
'Gas Light' was also twice adapted for film, in Britain in 1940, and the 1944 American film which was nominated for seven academy awards, including best actress for Ingrid Bergman.
‘Gas Light’ gave rise to the term "gaslighting", meaning a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented to victims with the intent of making them doubt their own memories, perceptions and judgements.
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1939 - Constable and Company Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition of this highlight work, scarce in this condition.‘A Broadway hit first produced in London under the title ‘Gaslight’, 'Gas Light' tells the story of the Manninghams who live on Angel Street in the 19th Century. The secret of the dimming gaslight and the mystery of the hidden rubies will captivate all.’ [Stageplays] Vincent Price arranged the rights for the Broadway production renamed it 'Angel Street' and starred in it, closing after 1,295 performances.
'Gas Light' was also twice adapted for film, in Britain in 1940, and the 1944 American film which was nominated for seven academy awards, including best actress for Ingrid Bergman.
‘Gas Light’ gave rise to the term "gaslighting", meaning a form of psychological abuse in which false information is presented to victims with the intent of making them doubt their own memories, perceptions and judgements.
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Is She a Lady? A Problem in Autobiography -
Nina Hamnett
1955 - Allan Windgate, London - First Edition
A rare dust jacketed first edition of Nina Hamnett’s second autobiographical work, the first being ‘A Laughing Torso’ [1933], and published only a year before her death.
Although more famous as the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ in Paris and written about first and foremost as a subject for the art of others (from Henri Gaudier-Brzeska to Roger Fry to Walter Sickert, ), she was a well trained and versatile artist in her own right and one of few emerging female artists of the first half of the 20th century.
‘Reading her story as a tale of the emergence of a young woman into the modern art world, her writing – breathless as it can be – creates a pithy, vivid and often amusing picture of what it felt like to throw off the constraints of the Edwardian lady and reinvent yourself as an artist’ - Alicia Foster, Art UK.
Illustrated with seven photographs and six reproductions of her drawings, including one of Anthony Powell from 1927.
Beginning in 1926, Nina Hamnett ‘proceeds to unleash a reckless Niagara of hilarious anecdotes and preposterous incidents of the vintage Bohemian life of London and Paris in the late twenties and early thirties. This was a world of pubs and clubs and parties, of painters, patrons, poets, boxers and tarts, of champagne drunk with the rich, quiet visits to the pawnshop and studio free-for-alls...’
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1955 - Allan Windgate, London - First Edition
A rare dust jacketed first edition of Nina Hamnett’s second autobiographical work, the first being ‘A Laughing Torso’ [1933], and published only a year before her death.Although more famous as the ‘Queen of Bohemia’ in Paris and written about first and foremost as a subject for the art of others (from Henri Gaudier-Brzeska to Roger Fry to Walter Sickert, ), she was a well trained and versatile artist in her own right and one of few emerging female artists of the first half of the 20th century.
‘Reading her story as a tale of the emergence of a young woman into the modern art world, her writing – breathless as it can be – creates a pithy, vivid and often amusing picture of what it felt like to throw off the constraints of the Edwardian lady and reinvent yourself as an artist’ - Alicia Foster, Art UK.
Illustrated with seven photographs and six reproductions of her drawings, including one of Anthony Powell from 1927.
Beginning in 1926, Nina Hamnett ‘proceeds to unleash a reckless Niagara of hilarious anecdotes and preposterous incidents of the vintage Bohemian life of London and Paris in the late twenties and early thirties. This was a world of pubs and clubs and parties, of painters, patrons, poets, boxers and tarts, of champagne drunk with the rich, quiet visits to the pawnshop and studio free-for-alls...’
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Price HK$ 5,000