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The Ballad of Beau Brocade and other Poems of the XVIIIth Century -
Austin Dobson, Hugh Thomson (illustrator)
1892 - Kegan Paul, London - Large Paper Edition. Number 30 of 450 copies
‘And of all the knights of the gentle trade
Nobody bolder than Beau Brocade.’
An excellent copy of this 18th century-style ballad, one of Dobson’s most spirited works of verse, handsomely bound by Ramage, and charmingly illustrated with fifty black and white drawings by Hugh Thomson, printed on Japanese vellum.
This collection also includes the poems ‘A Gentleman of the Old School’, ‘A Dead Letter’, ‘The Old Sedan Chair’, ‘The Ladies of St. James’, ‘Molly Trefusis’, and ‘A Chapter on Froissart’.
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1892 - Kegan Paul, London - Large Paper Edition. Number 30 of 450 copies
‘And of all the knights of the gentle tradeNobody bolder than Beau Brocade.’
An excellent copy of this 18th century-style ballad, one of Dobson’s most spirited works of verse, handsomely bound by Ramage, and charmingly illustrated with fifty black and white drawings by Hugh Thomson, printed on Japanese vellum.
This collection also includes the poems ‘A Gentleman of the Old School’, ‘A Dead Letter’, ‘The Old Sedan Chair’, ‘The Ladies of St. James’, ‘Molly Trefusis’, and ‘A Chapter on Froissart’.
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Our American Adventure [&] Our Second American Adventure -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1923 1924 - Doran / Little, New York / Boston - First American Edition
Two volumes. The accounts of Doyle's two American tours 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 1924 - Doran / Little, New York / Boston - First American Edition
Two volumes. The accounts of Doyle's two American tours 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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Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha - SIGNED -
Roddy Doyle
1993 - Secker & Warburg, London - First Edition
A first edition of Roddy Doyle’s 1993 Booker Prize winning work, without the usual fading to the spine, and signed by him on the title page.
Set in a working-class Irish town in 1968, this candid picture of life in a fictional north Dublin suburb is related by bright and sensitive 10-year-old Paddy Clarke who, together with his best friend Kevin, are part of a neighbourhood gang that sets fires in vacant buildings, routinely teases younger children, and plays in forbidden places. Told in a bold, infantile style of narration, Doyle conveys the activities, taboos, ceremonies and often daring glee and distorted sense of the world, as viewed by boys verging on adolescence.
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1993 - Secker & Warburg, London - First Edition
A first edition of Roddy Doyle’s 1993 Booker Prize winning work, without the usual fading to the spine, and signed by him on the title page.Set in a working-class Irish town in 1968, this candid picture of life in a fictional north Dublin suburb is related by bright and sensitive 10-year-old Paddy Clarke who, together with his best friend Kevin, are part of a neighbourhood gang that sets fires in vacant buildings, routinely teases younger children, and plays in forbidden places. Told in a bold, infantile style of narration, Doyle conveys the activities, taboos, ceremonies and often daring glee and distorted sense of the world, as viewed by boys verging on adolescence.
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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - with - The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1892 - George Newnes Ltd., London - First Edition, First Issues (preceded by the Strand Magazine publication)
A smart bright pair, first editions in their earliest issues of the classic Sherlock Holmes short stories, up to the Reichenbach Falls episode of The Final Problem. Illustrated throughout from wood engravings by Sidney Paget. Adventures contains twelve stories including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Speckled Band, Memoirs contains eleven stories including The Final Problem, and “Silver Blaze”.
Suitably housed in a custom clamshell case of half dark blue morocco leather over matching cloth, lined with felt, titles in gilt.
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1892 - George Newnes Ltd., London - First Edition, First Issues (preceded by the Strand Magazine publication)
A smart bright pair, first editions in their earliest issues of the classic Sherlock Holmes short stories, up to the Reichenbach Falls episode of The Final Problem. Illustrated throughout from wood engravings by Sidney Paget. Adventures contains twelve stories including A Scandal in Bohemia and The Speckled Band, Memoirs contains eleven stories including The Final Problem, and “Silver Blaze”.Suitably housed in a custom clamshell case of half dark blue morocco leather over matching cloth, lined with felt, titles in gilt.
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The Valley of Fear. A Sherlock Holmes Story. -
Arthur Conan Doyle
1915 - Smith, London - First English Edition
‘Mr Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime.’
The fourth and final full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, a retrospective or 'flashback' adventure set in Pennsylvania, 1888. 'The Valley of Fear' is also notable for the involvement of Holmes arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty. The plot is based on the activities of Molly Maguires, an Irish-American activist group known for their violent conflicts and long held status as a secret society.
With frontispiece of Sherlock by Frank Wiles. Housed in a custom clamshell case of scarlet morocco leather over matching cloth, spine lettered in gilt, interior felt lined.
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1915 - Smith, London - First English Edition
‘Mr Mac, the most practical thing that you ever did in your life would be to shut yourself up for three months and read twelve hours a day at the annals of crime.’The fourth and final full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, a retrospective or 'flashback' adventure set in Pennsylvania, 1888. 'The Valley of Fear' is also notable for the involvement of Holmes arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty. The plot is based on the activities of Molly Maguires, an Irish-American activist group known for their violent conflicts and long held status as a secret society.
With frontispiece of Sherlock by Frank Wiles. Housed in a custom clamshell case of scarlet morocco leather over matching cloth, spine lettered in gilt, interior felt lined.
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The Lost World -
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1912 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
‘So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.’
From the brilliant mind of Arthur Conan Doyle comes a a classic tale of adventure and exploration. The first in the Challenger novel series, join heroes Edward Malon and Professor Challenger as they travel to a Lost World in the Amazon forest where dinosaurs, Pterodactyls, Cave Men, and other prehistoric creatures are found to be co-existing, cut off from the rest of the world.
Illustrated with eight lithographic plates, including a photographic frontispiece of members of the expedition, featuring Doyle wearing a fake beard as Professor Challenger.
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1912 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
‘So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.’From the brilliant mind of Arthur Conan Doyle comes a a classic tale of adventure and exploration. The first in the Challenger novel series, join heroes Edward Malon and Professor Challenger as they travel to a Lost World in the Amazon forest where dinosaurs, Pterodactyls, Cave Men, and other prehistoric creatures are found to be co-existing, cut off from the rest of the world.
Illustrated with eight lithographic plates, including a photographic frontispiece of members of the expedition, featuring Doyle wearing a fake beard as Professor Challenger.
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The Trilogy of Desire: The Financier; The Titan; The Stoic. -
Theodore Dreiser
1912 - Harper & Brothers, New York - First Editions, first printings [October & K-M to copyright page of The Financier]
‘It is Mr. Dreiser's constant probing of the intertwined needs for money, art, glory, sex and so much else that makes "The Financier" the greatest of all American business novels.’ - The Wall Street Journal, 2012.
First editions Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire, also known as The Cowperwood Trilogy, telling the life story of Charles T. Yerkes, renamed Algernon Cowperwood by Dreiser, a Philadelphia securities manipulator and streetcar magnate. The Financier, in scarce and unrestored dust jacket
‘Dreiser laboriously researched the business practices and personal exploits of real-life robber baron Charles Yerkes to narrate Frank Algernon Cowperwood's early career in The Financier, which explores the unscrupulous world of finance from the Civil War through the panic incited by the 1871 Chicago fire.’ (University of Illinois). Despite claiming complete ignorance about finance and an inability to make money, Dreiser presents a technical masterpiece.
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1912 - Harper & Brothers, New York - First Editions, first printings [October & K-M to copyright page of The Financier]
‘It is Mr. Dreiser's constant probing of the intertwined needs for money, art, glory, sex and so much else that makes "The Financier" the greatest of all American business novels.’ - The Wall Street Journal, 2012.First editions Dreiser’s Trilogy of Desire, also known as The Cowperwood Trilogy, telling the life story of Charles T. Yerkes, renamed Algernon Cowperwood by Dreiser, a Philadelphia securities manipulator and streetcar magnate. The Financier, in scarce and unrestored dust jacket
‘Dreiser laboriously researched the business practices and personal exploits of real-life robber baron Charles Yerkes to narrate Frank Algernon Cowperwood's early career in The Financier, which explores the unscrupulous world of finance from the Civil War through the panic incited by the 1871 Chicago fire.’ (University of Illinois). Despite claiming complete ignorance about finance and an inability to make money, Dreiser presents a technical masterpiece.
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God and My Right -
Alfred Duggan
1955 - Faber & Faber, London - First Edition
A historical novel on the subject of Thomas Becket of Canterbury and the King of England. Telling the story of the boyhood of the ambitious Thomas of Cheapside and of the conquest of the country by the passionate young King.
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1955 - Faber & Faber, London - First Edition
A historical novel on the subject of Thomas Becket of Canterbury and the King of England. Telling the story of the boyhood of the ambitious Thomas of Cheapside and of the conquest of the country by the passionate young King.
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Price HK$ 1,100