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My Late Wives. Another Adventure of Sir Henry Merrivale -
Carter Dickson (John Dickson Carr)
1947 - William Heinemann Ltd, London Toronto - First English Edition
A fine first English edition.
Featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and the grumbling Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters of Scotland Yard.
‘All Roger Bewlay’s wives had four things in common: no near relatives – a hunger for romantic love – an idylic honeymoon – and, after their honeymoon, nobody ever saw them again . . .’
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1947 - William Heinemann Ltd, London Toronto - First English Edition
A fine first English edition.Featuring Sir Henry Merrivale and the grumbling Chief Inspector Humphrey Masters of Scotland Yard.
‘All Roger Bewlay’s wives had four things in common: no near relatives – a hunger for romantic love – an idylic honeymoon – and, after their honeymoon, nobody ever saw them again . . .’
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Run River - Signed -
Joan Didion
1963 - Ivan Obolensky, New York - First Edition
A fine first edition of Joan Didion’s debut novel, in a superior example of the dust jacket and signed by Didion to the title page.
‘Run River’ begins with a murder on the bank of the Sacramento River--a murder that is at once an act of vengeance and a blind attempt to shore up a disintegrating marriage. Out of that act, Didion constructs a tragic and beautifully nuanced work of fiction.
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1963 - Ivan Obolensky, New York - First Edition
A fine first edition of Joan Didion’s debut novel, in a superior example of the dust jacket and signed by Didion to the title page.‘Run River’ begins with a murder on the bank of the Sacramento River--a murder that is at once an act of vengeance and a blind attempt to shore up a disintegrating marriage. Out of that act, Didion constructs a tragic and beautifully nuanced work of fiction.
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Crimson Friday - Inscribed -
Dorothy Cameron Disney
1943 - Random House, New York - First Edition
Inscribed “For Grace W Cahill, I hope you get a shiver during these hot days, Sincerely Dorothy Cameron Disney, June 17,1943. Washington, D.C.”
Grace W Cahill was the wife of actor and radio star Lou Krugman (1914-1992) who played the bad guy in ‘No for Hire’, ‘The Wild Wild West’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ he also appeared in hundreds of radio shows, usually as a villain.
‘Dorothy Cameron’s novels remain quite fresh and readable, not only because they are fast-paced but also because the major characters are full drawn and believable... The surprising note for the period, and for the white-collar, upper-middle class milieu Disney favors, is that the women of the novels, in spite of hats, hats, gloves, dresses, and apparently conventional attitudes, are liberated. Her females are actresses, doctors, successful businesswomen, civil servants – and villains.’ – Neysa Chouteau, Martha Alderson, Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers.
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1943 - Random House, New York - First Edition
Inscribed “For Grace W Cahill, I hope you get a shiver during these hot days, Sincerely Dorothy Cameron Disney, June 17,1943. Washington, D.C.”Grace W Cahill was the wife of actor and radio star Lou Krugman (1914-1992) who played the bad guy in ‘No for Hire’, ‘The Wild Wild West’ and ‘I Love Lucy’ he also appeared in hundreds of radio shows, usually as a villain.
‘Dorothy Cameron’s novels remain quite fresh and readable, not only because they are fast-paced but also because the major characters are full drawn and believable... The surprising note for the period, and for the white-collar, upper-middle class milieu Disney favors, is that the women of the novels, in spite of hats, hats, gloves, dresses, and apparently conventional attitudes, are liberated. Her females are actresses, doctors, successful businesswomen, civil servants – and villains.’ – Neysa Chouteau, Martha Alderson, Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers.
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Strawstack -
Dorothy Cameron Disney
1939 - Random House, New York - First Edition
An exemplary example of the first edition. The third novel by Disney in which a wealthy spinster, Margaret Tilbury, and her conservative New England family are plunged into a series of cold-booded and harrowing crimes ...’
‘No one has used New England’s suburbs and small towns as often and effectively as Disney...’ – Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers.
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1939 - Random House, New York - First Edition
An exemplary example of the first edition. The third novel by Disney in which a wealthy spinster, Margaret Tilbury, and her conservative New England family are plunged into a series of cold-booded and harrowing crimes ...’‘No one has used New England’s suburbs and small towns as often and effectively as Disney...’ – Twentieth-Century Crime and Mystery Writers.
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Satan in St Mary s -
P. C. Doherty
1986 - Robert Hale, London - First Edition
A scarce example of the first edition in near fine dust jacket.
The first book in this series of English medieval mysteries featuring Hugh Corbett, a clerk to the King's Bench in the latter part of the reign of Edward I.
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1986 - Robert Hale, London - First Edition
A scarce example of the first edition in near fine dust jacket.The first book in this series of English medieval mysteries featuring Hugh Corbett, a clerk to the King's Bench in the latter part of the reign of Edward I.
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The Novels of F. Dostoevsky -
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky [Dostoyevsky], Constance Garnett (translator)
1949-1951 - William Heinemann, London
A finely bound twelve volume set of Dostoevsky’s novels and short story collections, first translated by Constance Garnett between 1912 and 1920, and now difficult to assemble in this format.
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1949-1951 - William Heinemann, London
A finely bound twelve volume set of Dostoevsky’s novels and short story collections, first translated by Constance Garnett between 1912 and 1920, and now difficult to assemble in this format.
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Our American Adventure - with - Our Second American Adventure -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1923 - George H. Doran Company, New York - First American Editions
Two volumes. The accounts of Doyle's two American tours, the second only a year after the first due to popular demand, investigating and speaking on matters of Spiritualism.
Illustrated with black and white photographs.
‘We live in the time of dawn, and year by year the overwhelming importance of this psychic question is forcing itself upon the public attention’
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1923 - George H. Doran Company, New York - First American Editions
Two volumes. The accounts of Doyle's two American tours, the second only a year after the first due to popular demand, investigating and speaking on matters of Spiritualism.Illustrated with black and white photographs.
‘We live in the time of dawn, and year by year the overwhelming importance of this psychic question is forcing itself upon the public attention’
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The Speckled Band : An Adventure of Sherlock Holmes - The original Royal Adelphi Theatre program. -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1910 - Adelphi Theatre, London
‘Special Cable to The New York Times. London, June 4. -- Sherlock Holmes came to life ton-night on the stage of the Adelphi Theatre in an adaptation of Conan Doyle’s story called “The Speckled Band.” It will be remembered that the mysterious title refers to a snake trained by its master to do murders. The reptile made three appearances to-night, finally killing its master in a scene so horrible that even Holmes had little chance. Lyn Harding, as a half-mad Anglo Indian villain, with the horrid pet, held the stage in a fashion evidently delightful to the gallery. Doyle responded to frantic calls with a bow.’
Here we present a rare original programme from that show which only ran for two months, with H. A. Saintsbury playing Sherlock Holmes and a very large rock boa which rather stole the show playing the part of the serpent. The play was transferred to the Globe on August 8th of 1910. In near fine condition and enclosed in separate magnificent colour art-nouveau covers.
‘[Doyle] took a six-month lease on the Adelphi Theatre so that The House of Temperley [based on his novel ‘Rodney Stone’] might be produced. The death of the King and a serious slump in audience attendance, coupled with the subject which was not thought suitable for women, meant that the run was short.
'When I saw the course that things were taking I shut myself up and devoted my whole mind to making a sensational Sherlock Holmes drama. I wrote it in a week and called it ‘The Speckled Band’ after the short story of that name. I do not think that I exaggerate if I say that within a fortnight of the one play shutting down I had a company working upon the rehearsals of a second one, which had been written in the interval' (Memories and Adventures, p. 101).
The new play was a great success.’ – Green and Gibson, A Bibliography of A Conan Doyle.
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1910 - Adelphi Theatre, London
‘Special Cable to The New York Times. London, June 4. -- Sherlock Holmes came to life ton-night on the stage of the Adelphi Theatre in an adaptation of Conan Doyle’s story called “The Speckled Band.” It will be remembered that the mysterious title refers to a snake trained by its master to do murders. The reptile made three appearances to-night, finally killing its master in a scene so horrible that even Holmes had little chance. Lyn Harding, as a half-mad Anglo Indian villain, with the horrid pet, held the stage in a fashion evidently delightful to the gallery. Doyle responded to frantic calls with a bow.’Here we present a rare original programme from that show which only ran for two months, with H. A. Saintsbury playing Sherlock Holmes and a very large rock boa which rather stole the show playing the part of the serpent. The play was transferred to the Globe on August 8th of 1910. In near fine condition and enclosed in separate magnificent colour art-nouveau covers.
‘[Doyle] took a six-month lease on the Adelphi Theatre so that The House of Temperley [based on his novel ‘Rodney Stone’] might be produced. The death of the King and a serious slump in audience attendance, coupled with the subject which was not thought suitable for women, meant that the run was short.
'When I saw the course that things were taking I shut myself up and devoted my whole mind to making a sensational Sherlock Holmes drama. I wrote it in a week and called it ‘The Speckled Band’ after the short story of that name. I do not think that I exaggerate if I say that within a fortnight of the one play shutting down I had a company working upon the rehearsals of a second one, which had been written in the interval' (Memories and Adventures, p. 101).
The new play was a great success.’ – Green and Gibson, A Bibliography of A Conan Doyle.
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