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Every Day is Mother's Day -
Hilary Mantel
1985 - Chatto & Windus. The Hogarth Press, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Hilary Mantel’s first novel, in the dust jacket without any of the usual fading to the spine lettering and scarce as such. Described by the New York Times as ‘a giddy cocktail of horror and gleeful anticipation’.
‘Set in 1970s England, Hilary Mantel’s first novel is a wild amalgam of social satire and gothic motifs, and also a powerful characterization of the lingering effects of abuse.’ – Narrative.
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1985 - Chatto & Windus. The Hogarth Press, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Hilary Mantel’s first novel, in the dust jacket without any of the usual fading to the spine lettering and scarce as such. Described by the New York Times as ‘a giddy cocktail of horror and gleeful anticipation’.‘Set in 1970s England, Hilary Mantel’s first novel is a wild amalgam of social satire and gothic motifs, and also a powerful characterization of the lingering effects of abuse.’ – Narrative.
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Three Went Armed - Signed -
Jacland Marmur
1933 - Lincoln Mac Veagh, New York - First Edition
A fine signed first edition of this historical maritime murder mystery, in a nice example of the scarce dust jacket.
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1933 - Lincoln Mac Veagh, New York - First Edition
A fine signed first edition of this historical maritime murder mystery, in a nice example of the scarce dust jacket.
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The Beetle. A Mystery -
Richard Marsh
1897 - Skeffington & Son, London - First Edition
An outstanding and rare first edition of Richard Marsh’s best-selling gothic horror masterpiece. With four full page monochrome plates from illustrations by John Williamson.
'I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him…and there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle tribe…'
‘The Beetle, published in 1897, is the tale of a shape-changing Egyptian creature that comes to London seeking revenge on a leading MP, which greatly outsold its close rival Dracula (published the same year).’
'Mr. Richard Marsh has, so to speak, out-Heroded Herod' – The Glasgow Herald, comparing Marsh to Bram Stoker (1898).
'We cannot recommend The Beetle to persons whose nerves are weak...' – The Speaker (1898).
‘Sordid and vulgar’ – The Daily Mail (1898).
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1897 - Skeffington & Son, London - First Edition
An outstanding and rare first edition of Richard Marsh’s best-selling gothic horror masterpiece. With four full page monochrome plates from illustrations by John Williamson.'I saw him take a different shape before my eyes. His loose draperies fell about him…and there issued out of them a monstrous creature of the beetle tribe…'
‘The Beetle, published in 1897, is the tale of a shape-changing Egyptian creature that comes to London seeking revenge on a leading MP, which greatly outsold its close rival Dracula (published the same year).’
'Mr. Richard Marsh has, so to speak, out-Heroded Herod' – The Glasgow Herald, comparing Marsh to Bram Stoker (1898).
'We cannot recommend The Beetle to persons whose nerves are weak...' – The Speaker (1898).
‘Sordid and vulgar’ – The Daily Mail (1898).
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Ashenden or The British Agent -
William Somerset Maugham
1928 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition
A fine copy in superb fresh example of the scarce, delicate, and striking dust jacket, without restoration, conservation, or repair.
Somerset Maugham's highly influential collection of espionage thrillers based on his own experiences in British Intelligence during the First World War.
Considered the ‘the archetype of the espionage novel’, inspiring many later writers in the genre including Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and Len Deighton among others.
A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone book. Two of the stories in Ashenden were used by Alfred Hitchcock as the basis for The Secret Agent.
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1928 - William Heinemann, London - First Edition
A fine copy in superb fresh example of the scarce, delicate, and striking dust jacket, without restoration, conservation, or repair.Somerset Maugham's highly influential collection of espionage thrillers based on his own experiences in British Intelligence during the First World War.
Considered the ‘the archetype of the espionage novel’, inspiring many later writers in the genre including Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, Graham Greene, Eric Ambler, and Len Deighton among others.
A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone book. Two of the stories in Ashenden were used by Alfred Hitchcock as the basis for The Secret Agent.
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On a Chinese Screen -
William Somerset Maugham
1922 - William Heinemann, London - First English Edition
First edition of Maugham’s collection of sketches on China.
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river, with what are clearly long stops in Shanghai and Hong Kong amongst other treaty ports. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper.
In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know. In total 58 sketches.
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1922 - William Heinemann, London - First English Edition
First edition of Maugham’s collection of sketches on China.Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling fifteen hundred miles up the Yangtze river, with what are clearly long stops in Shanghai and Hong Kong amongst other treaty ports. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper.
In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation. Maugham keenly observes, and gently ridicules, their dogged and oblivious persistence with the life they know. In total 58 sketches.
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The Casuarina Tree - Six Stories -
William Somerset Maugham
1926 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition in the scarce dust jacket designed by Ralph Keene
Maugham’s collection of short stories by set in the Federated Malay States during the 1920s, including one of his most aclaimed ‘The Outsider’.
by W. Somerset Maugham. The stories are loosely based on Maugham's experiences traveling in the region for about a year
With a short introduction entitled ‘The Casuarina Tree’ followed by the stories – ‘Before the Party’, ‘P. & O.’, ‘The Outstation’, ‘The Force of Circumstance’, ‘The Yellow Streak’, and ‘The Letter’.
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1926 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition in the scarce dust jacket designed by Ralph KeeneMaugham’s collection of short stories by set in the Federated Malay States during the 1920s, including one of his most aclaimed ‘The Outsider’.
by W. Somerset Maugham. The stories are loosely based on Maugham's experiences traveling in the region for about a year
With a short introduction entitled ‘The Casuarina Tree’ followed by the stories – ‘Before the Party’, ‘P. & O.’, ‘The Outstation’, ‘The Force of Circumstance’, ‘The Yellow Streak’, and ‘The Letter’.
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The Razor’s Edge - A Novel -
William Somerset Maugham
1944 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First English Edition
A fine first edition of one of Maugham's most popular works, twice adapted for the big screen, the first of which was Oscar-winning starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney and John Payne.
‘The Razor’s Edge’ follows the life of Larry Darrell, a pilot in World War I who longs to discover some transcendent meaning for human life, and for his life in particular.
Maugham himself appears in the novel, and there is some debate as to whether Darrell is a thinly disguised portrait of Christopher Isherwood.
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1944 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First English Edition
A fine first edition of one of Maugham's most popular works, twice adapted for the big screen, the first of which was Oscar-winning starring Tyrone Power, Gene Tierney and John Payne.‘The Razor’s Edge’ follows the life of Larry Darrell, a pilot in World War I who longs to discover some transcendent meaning for human life, and for his life in particular.
Maugham himself appears in the novel, and there is some debate as to whether Darrell is a thinly disguised portrait of Christopher Isherwood.
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The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong -
William Somerset Maugham
1930 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition of ‘Maugham's finest travel book’.
‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House]
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1930 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition of ‘Maugham's finest travel book’. ‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House]
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Price HK$ 6,000