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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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Price HK$ 60,000
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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Price HK$ 60,000
The Razor’s Edge - A Novel -
William Somerset Maugham
1944 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First English Edition
A finely bound 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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Price HK$ 3,500
1944 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First English Edition
A finely bound 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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Price HK$ 3,500
A Handful of Dust -
Evelyn Waugh
1934 - Chapman and Hall Ltd., London - First Edition
All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent.
‘Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars.’ – Simon Leake.
First edition of what many consider one of Waugh’s best works.
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Price HK$ 4,000
1934 - Chapman and Hall Ltd., London - First Edition
All over England people were waking up, queasy and despondent.‘Few writers have walked the line between farce and tragedy as nimbly as Evelyn Waugh, who employed the conventions of the comic novel to chip away at the already crumbling English class system. His 1934 novel, A Handful of Dust, is a sublime example of his bleak satirical style: a mordantly funny exposé of aristocratic decadence and ennui in England between the wars.’ – Simon Leake.
First edition of what many consider one of Waugh’s best works.
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Price HK$ 4,000
Mr Loveday's Little Outing And Other Sad Stories -
Evelyn Waugh
1936 - Chapman and Hall, London - First Edition
First edition, with the evocative frontispiece illustration by Thomas Derrick (1885-1954).
‘In this unique collection of Waugh's early short stories, some of which became the inspirations for his novels, Waugh displays his unique talent for comedy and narration. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident, while 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naïve young woman as she travels with her family. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.’ [Penguin]
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Price HK$ 1,500
1936 - Chapman and Hall, London - First Edition
First edition, with the evocative frontispiece illustration by Thomas Derrick (1885-1954).‘In this unique collection of Waugh's early short stories, some of which became the inspirations for his novels, Waugh displays his unique talent for comedy and narration. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident, while 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naïve young woman as she travels with her family. These witty and immaculately crafted stories display the finest writing of a master of satire and comic twists.’ [Penguin]
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Price HK$ 1,500