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Found Money -
George A. Birmingham (pseud. James Owen Hannay)
1923 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First American Edition
A humorous Irish mystery of buried treasure. A fine copy in delicate dust jacket.
George A. Birmingham was the pen name of James Owen Hannay (1865-1950), Irish clergyman and prolific and successful novelist.
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1923 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First American Edition
A humorous Irish mystery of buried treasure. A fine copy in delicate dust jacket.George A. Birmingham was the pen name of James Owen Hannay (1865-1950), Irish clergyman and prolific and successful novelist.
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The Sins of the Father - Inscribed -
John Blackburn
1979 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
A nice association copy, inscribed from Blackburn to actor Christopher Lee who starred in the 1973 film version of Blackburn’s ‘Nothing But The Night’.
‘To Christopher Lee with best wishes as always John Blackburn’
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1979 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
A nice association copy, inscribed from Blackburn to actor Christopher Lee who starred in the 1973 film version of Blackburn’s ‘Nothing But The Night’.‘To Christopher Lee with best wishes as always John Blackburn’
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The Ninth Configuration - Signed and Inscribed -
William Peter Blatty
1978 - Harper & Row, New York - First Edition
Signed and inscribed by the author of The Exorcist.
‘In a decaying Gothic mansion hidden in a forest near the coast of the Pacific Northwest are twenty-seven men confined for the treatment of inexplicable mental disturbances.....’
This novel is a reworking of the author's previously published novel Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane whose basic concept Blatty states ‘was surely the best I have ever created,’ however the work ‘was no more than notes for a novel’. ‘But the idea mattered to me so once again I have written a novel based on it. This time I know it is the best that I can do’.
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1978 - Harper & Row, New York - First Edition
Signed and inscribed by the author of The Exorcist.‘In a decaying Gothic mansion hidden in a forest near the coast of the Pacific Northwest are twenty-seven men confined for the treatment of inexplicable mental disturbances.....’
This novel is a reworking of the author's previously published novel Twinkle, Twinkle Killer Kane whose basic concept Blatty states ‘was surely the best I have ever created,’ however the work ‘was no more than notes for a novel’. ‘But the idea mattered to me so once again I have written a novel based on it. This time I know it is the best that I can do’.
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Price HK$ 900
The Desert Flyer -
John Bolton
1936 - Wright & Brown, London - First Edition
A thrilling “Story of the Air” in Egypt!
A scarce between the wars Air Mystery.
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1936 - Wright & Brown, London - First Edition
A thrilling “Story of the Air” in Egypt!A scarce between the wars Air Mystery.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes -
Ray Bradbury
1962 - Simon and Schuster, New York - First Edition, First printing
A superior First Edition, First printing of Bradbury’s sinister and influential masterpiece. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show is here...
‘Drenched in darkness, every character a slice of night.’ – David Barnett, The Guardian, 2012.
‘One of those books about childhood that adults should take down once in a while... not just to give to their own children, but in order to touch base again themselves with childhood’s brighter perspectives and darker dreams.’ – Stephen King.
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Price HK$ 9,500
1962 - Simon and Schuster, New York - First Edition, First printing
A superior First Edition, First printing of Bradbury’s sinister and influential masterpiece. Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show is here...‘Drenched in darkness, every character a slice of night.’ – David Barnett, The Guardian, 2012.
‘One of those books about childhood that adults should take down once in a while... not just to give to their own children, but in order to touch base again themselves with childhood’s brighter perspectives and darker dreams.’ – Stephen King.
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The three ‘Kai Lung’ collections - The Wallet of Kai Lung - Kai Lung's Golden Hours - and - Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat -
Ernest Bramah
1923 - Doran, New York - First American Editions (Wallet is the second edition, but first in the Nadejen dust jacket).
‘There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.’
Three volumes presenting the first three collections of stories featuring the inimitable protagonist Kai Lung, in which he must pit his wits against his arch nemesis Ming-Shu, escape the clutches of greedy bandits, and attempt to beguile them with seemingly unrelated parables with the help of his love Hwa-Mei, eventually becoming known as ‘an itinerant teller of tall tales set in a China that never was’.
All presented in their wonderful dust jackets illustrated by Theodore Nadejen. Kai Lung's Golden Hours, also contains an enthusiastic introduction by Hilaire Belloc.
A seminal influence in the genre of speculative fiction, Bramah’s works have been compared with those of Jerome K. Jerome, and PG Wodehouse. His work went on to inspire writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Jorge Luis Borges, and George Orwell, among many others.
‘It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops’.
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1923 - Doran, New York - First American Editions (Wallet is the second edition, but first in the Nadejen dust jacket).
‘There are few situations in life that cannot be honourably settled, and without loss of time, either by suicide, a bag of gold, or by thrusting a despised antagonist over the edge of a precipice upon a dark night.’Three volumes presenting the first three collections of stories featuring the inimitable protagonist Kai Lung, in which he must pit his wits against his arch nemesis Ming-Shu, escape the clutches of greedy bandits, and attempt to beguile them with seemingly unrelated parables with the help of his love Hwa-Mei, eventually becoming known as ‘an itinerant teller of tall tales set in a China that never was’.
All presented in their wonderful dust jackets illustrated by Theodore Nadejen. Kai Lung's Golden Hours, also contains an enthusiastic introduction by Hilaire Belloc.
A seminal influence in the genre of speculative fiction, Bramah’s works have been compared with those of Jerome K. Jerome, and PG Wodehouse. His work went on to inspire writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Jorge Luis Borges, and George Orwell, among many others.
‘It is a mark of insincerity of purpose to spend one's time in looking for the sacred Emperor in the low-class tea-shops’.
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Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat -
Ernest Bramah
1928 - The Richards Press Ltd., London - First Edition, in first issue dust jacket
‘The more you can consume, the less will be this self-conscious person’s shame at the insipidity of what he puts before you; the longer you can tolerate his worn-out roof, the greater will be the confidence with which he can henceforth continue to dwell beneath it...’
The third collection of stories in Brahmah’s ‘Kai Lung’ series: a brilliant literary fusion of myths, legends, and cosmology from the Golden age of Han, tied together with Bramah’s keen eye for combining historic fiction and comedy. Kai Lung, our hapless yet loveable protagonist, must once again defeat his enemies and win back his kidnapped wife; Hwa-Mei, by weaving together seemingly unconnected parables and tales until an overarching narrative is skilfully revealed.
A seminal influence in the genre of speculative fiction, Bramah’s works have been compared with those of Jerome K. Jerome, and PG Wodehouse. His work went on to inspire writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Jorge Luis Borges, and George Orwell, among many others.
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Price HK$ 2,000
1928 - The Richards Press Ltd., London - First Edition, in first issue dust jacket
‘The more you can consume, the less will be this self-conscious person’s shame at the insipidity of what he puts before you; the longer you can tolerate his worn-out roof, the greater will be the confidence with which he can henceforth continue to dwell beneath it...’The third collection of stories in Brahmah’s ‘Kai Lung’ series: a brilliant literary fusion of myths, legends, and cosmology from the Golden age of Han, tied together with Bramah’s keen eye for combining historic fiction and comedy. Kai Lung, our hapless yet loveable protagonist, must once again defeat his enemies and win back his kidnapped wife; Hwa-Mei, by weaving together seemingly unconnected parables and tales until an overarching narrative is skilfully revealed.
A seminal influence in the genre of speculative fiction, Bramah’s works have been compared with those of Jerome K. Jerome, and PG Wodehouse. His work went on to inspire writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Jorge Luis Borges, and George Orwell, among many others.
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1914 and Other Poems -
Rupert Brooke
1915 - Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Brooke’s second and most famous collection of poetry, published two months after his death, which contains, amongst others, both ‘The Soldier’ and ‘The Dead’. With portrait frontispiece from a photograph taken by Sherrill Schell in 1913, and the delicate and scarce dust jacket which is in two pieces but shows well on the book itself. Housed in later quarter red morocco slipcase.
‘If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.’
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Price HK$ 12,000
1915 - Sidgwick & Jackson Limited, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of Brooke’s second and most famous collection of poetry, published two months after his death, which contains, amongst others, both ‘The Soldier’ and ‘The Dead’. With portrait frontispiece from a photograph taken by Sherrill Schell in 1913, and the delicate and scarce dust jacket which is in two pieces but shows well on the book itself. Housed in later quarter red morocco slipcase.‘If I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is for ever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by suns of home.’
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Price HK$ 12,000