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Thirteen Guests - Inscribed -
J. Jefferson Farjeon
1936 - Collins, London - First Edition
Rare first edition, even more so in the original dust jacket and inscribed. The inscription is to his friend, the book collector ‘Eileen Cond. with very best wishes J. Jefferson Farjeon’ ‘January 1937’.
What to expect when thirteen guests are invited for a weekend party at Lord Aveling’s country-house. The guests include an attractive widow, an actress, an authoress, a journalist, a society artist, a county cricketer, an M.P. and a retired “sausage king”...
By one of Dorothy Sayer’s favourite authors who called him ‘unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’.
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1936 - Collins, London - First Edition
Rare first edition, even more so in the original dust jacket and inscribed. The inscription is to his friend, the book collector ‘Eileen Cond. with very best wishes J. Jefferson Farjeon’ ‘January 1937’.What to expect when thirteen guests are invited for a weekend party at Lord Aveling’s country-house. The guests include an attractive widow, an actress, an authoress, a journalist, a society artist, a county cricketer, an M.P. and a retired “sausage king”...
By one of Dorothy Sayer’s favourite authors who called him ‘unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’.
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Seven Dead -
J. Jefferson Farjeon
1939 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First American Edition
A rare example of what many consider to be Farjeon’s best work (the other being ‘Mystery in White’), in the fine bright sharp dust jacket. Featuring Detective Inspector Kendall.
Assumed first American edition, published the same year as the Collins edition of London, in a number of cases the Bobbs-Merrill edition was published earlier, and without further investigation we cannot prioritise which came first in this case. Both editions are rarely encountered in their dust jackets.
‘Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies.
Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house's absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than one motive to stay and investigate’ – British Library Crime Classics.
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1939 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First American Edition
A rare example of what many consider to be Farjeon’s best work (the other being ‘Mystery in White’), in the fine bright sharp dust jacket. Featuring Detective Inspector Kendall.Assumed first American edition, published the same year as the Collins edition of London, in a number of cases the Bobbs-Merrill edition was published earlier, and without further investigation we cannot prioritise which came first in this case. Both editions are rarely encountered in their dust jackets.
‘Ted Lyte, amateur thief, has chosen an isolated house by the coast for his first robbery. But Haven House is no ordinary country home. While hunting for silverware to steal, Ted stumbles upon a locked room containing seven dead bodies.
Detective Inspector Kendall takes on the case with the help of passing yachtsman Thomas Hazeldean. The search for the house's absent owners brings Hazeldean across the Channel to Boulogne, where he finds more than one motive to stay and investigate’ – British Library Crime Classics.
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Murder By Nail. Being an Episode in the Career of Jasper Shrig of Bow Street, with particulars of His Highly Original Methods in the Wrybook Case, set down by Ed. Brandonleigh, Gent. -
Jeffery Farnol
1942 - Sampson, London - First Edition
A fine example of one of Farnol’s swashbuckling historic murder mysteries.
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1942 - Sampson, London - First Edition
A fine example of one of Farnol’s swashbuckling historic murder mysteries.
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A Time Of Gifts, Between The Woods And The Water, The Broken Road -
Patrick Leigh Fermor
1977 - John Murray, London - First Editions
A bright, brilliant first edition trilogy of these erudite, high-spirited, and much-loved biographical classics of travel literature by Patrick Leigh Fermor, who was once described by a BBC journalist as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene.
On the 8th of December 1933, at the tender age of eighteen, shortly after being expelled from The King’s School, Canterbury for reportedly holding hands with a greengrocer’s daughter, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off on an incredible journey: walking the length of Europe, from Hook Holland all the way to Istanbul....
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1977 - John Murray, London - First Editions
A bright, brilliant first edition trilogy of these erudite, high-spirited, and much-loved biographical classics of travel literature by Patrick Leigh Fermor, who was once described by a BBC journalist as a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond, and Graham Greene.On the 8th of December 1933, at the tender age of eighteen, shortly after being expelled from The King’s School, Canterbury for reportedly holding hands with a greengrocer’s daughter, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off on an incredible journey: walking the length of Europe, from Hook Holland all the way to Istanbul....
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The Great Gatsby -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 - Charles Scribner&rsquo, New York - First Edition, First Issue
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’
A particularly fine and thus rare example of the first edition, with strong bright gilt to the spine lettering, no rubbing or wear, deep green cloth, clean interior without inscriptions or markings.
A landmark of 20th century fiction, and the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature, which incredibly, sold very little during Fitzgerald’s lifetime.
‘I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.’
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1925 - Charles Scribner&rsquo, New York - First Edition, First Issue
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’A particularly fine and thus rare example of the first edition, with strong bright gilt to the spine lettering, no rubbing or wear, deep green cloth, clean interior without inscriptions or markings.
A landmark of 20th century fiction, and the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature, which incredibly, sold very little during Fitzgerald’s lifetime.
‘I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.’
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The Great Gatsby -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1925 - Charles Scribner&rsquo, New York - First Edition, First Issue
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’
An elegantly bound first edition of this landmark of 20th century fiction, and the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature, which incredibly, sold very little during Fitzgerald’s lifetime.
‘I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.’
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Price HK$ 38,000
1925 - Charles Scribner&rsquo, New York - First Edition, First Issue
‘So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.’An elegantly bound first edition of this landmark of 20th century fiction, and the epitome of the Jazz Age in American literature, which incredibly, sold very little during Fitzgerald’s lifetime.
‘I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were not invited – they went there.’
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The Cubical City -
Janet Flanner (Gen
1926 - G.P. Putnam&rsquo, New York &ndash - First Edition
First edition of the author’s only novel a bright sharp example in the rare dust jacket.
An extraordinary—and memorable—glimpse of the young artist in New York during the Jazz Age, and ‘considered by literary scholars to be one of the first examples of modernist lesbian literature’.
‘From the 1920s to the 1970s, Janet Flanner kept Americans abreast of the goings-on in Paris with a biweekly New Yorker column written under the name Genêt. But before she became one of the country’s most famous expats, she lived among the artists and writers of the Algonquin Round Table. Flanner shares a vivid depiction of the New York she knew in this tale of a young woman’s self-discovery.
Having left Ohio in search of liberation, Delia Poole struggles to find her place in the big city. After getting work as a costume designer for musical revues, she and her dear friend Nancy are finally finding happiness on their own terms. But nothing is simple. From her adoring suitor, Paul, to her widowed mother’s decision to move to New York, Delia must grapple with expectations, responsibilities, and her own uncertainty.
The Cubical City is Janet Flanner’s only published novel. Though homosexuality is never overtly expressed, it is considered by literary scholars to be one of the first examples of modernist lesbian literature’ [Open Road Media]
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1926 - G.P. Putnam&rsquo, New York &ndash - First Edition
First edition of the author’s only novel a bright sharp example in the rare dust jacket.An extraordinary—and memorable—glimpse of the young artist in New York during the Jazz Age, and ‘considered by literary scholars to be one of the first examples of modernist lesbian literature’.
‘From the 1920s to the 1970s, Janet Flanner kept Americans abreast of the goings-on in Paris with a biweekly New Yorker column written under the name Genêt. But before she became one of the country’s most famous expats, she lived among the artists and writers of the Algonquin Round Table. Flanner shares a vivid depiction of the New York she knew in this tale of a young woman’s self-discovery.
Having left Ohio in search of liberation, Delia Poole struggles to find her place in the big city. After getting work as a costume designer for musical revues, she and her dear friend Nancy are finally finding happiness on their own terms. But nothing is simple. From her adoring suitor, Paul, to her widowed mother’s decision to move to New York, Delia must grapple with expectations, responsibilities, and her own uncertainty.
The Cubical City is Janet Flanner’s only published novel. Though homosexuality is never overtly expressed, it is considered by literary scholars to be one of the first examples of modernist lesbian literature’ [Open Road Media]
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Octopussy and the Living Daylights -
Ian Lancaster Fleming
1966 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
M looked coldly across the desk. It was going to be dirty work and Bond, because he belonged to the Double 0 section, had been chosen for it.
“You've got to kill this sniper. And you've got to kill him before he gets Agent 272. Is that understood?”
So, it was to be murder.
A fine first edition of the fourteenth and final publication by Ian Fleming in the 007 series, containing two short adventures; the title novella plus 'The Living Daylights'. These were later successfully filmed by EON productions with Bond played by Roger Moore (Octopussy, 1983) and Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, 1987).
Appropriately housed in a bespoke black cloth clamshell case, lined in scarlet red felt, the spine with gilt stamped lettering and target logo.
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1966 - Jonathan Cape, London - First Edition
M looked coldly across the desk. It was going to be dirty work and Bond, because he belonged to the Double 0 section, had been chosen for it.“You've got to kill this sniper. And you've got to kill him before he gets Agent 272. Is that understood?”
So, it was to be murder.
A fine first edition of the fourteenth and final publication by Ian Fleming in the 007 series, containing two short adventures; the title novella plus 'The Living Daylights'. These were later successfully filmed by EON productions with Bond played by Roger Moore (Octopussy, 1983) and Timothy Dalton (The Living Daylights, 1987).
Appropriately housed in a bespoke black cloth clamshell case, lined in scarlet red felt, the spine with gilt stamped lettering and target logo.
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Price HK$ 6,500