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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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem - Signed -
Joan Didion
1968 - Farrar, New York - First Edition
First edition of Joan Didion’s groundbreaking and classic non-fiction collection of essays, in a superior dust jacket, and signed by Didion to the title page.
‘More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: “[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.”’
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1968 - Farrar, New York - First Edition
First edition of Joan Didion’s groundbreaking and classic non-fiction collection of essays, in a superior dust jacket, and signed by Didion to the title page.‘More than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: “[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.”’
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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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Welcome to Hard Times - Signed -
E. L. Doctorow
1960 - Simon and Schuster, New York - First Edition
A signed first edition of E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life.
‘Perhaps the primary theme of the novel is that evil can only be resisted psychically: when the rational controls that order man’s existence slacken, destruction comes. Conrad said it best in “Heart of Darkness,” but Mr. Doctorow has said it impressively. His book is taut and dramatic, exciting and successfully symbolic.’ – Wirt Williams, New York Times.
‘A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.’ – The Washington Post..
The basis for the 1967 movie of the same name starring Henry Fonda.
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1960 - Simon and Schuster, New York - First Edition
A signed first edition of E. L. Doctorow’s debut novel, a searing allegory of frontier life.‘Perhaps the primary theme of the novel is that evil can only be resisted psychically: when the rational controls that order man’s existence slacken, destruction comes. Conrad said it best in “Heart of Darkness,” but Mr. Doctorow has said it impressively. His book is taut and dramatic, exciting and successfully symbolic.’ – Wirt Williams, New York Times.
‘A forceful, credible story of cowardice and evil.’ – The Washington Post..
The basis for the 1967 movie of the same name starring Henry Fonda.
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Art and Art-Industry in Siam. Lacquer-Works in Black and Gold -
Charles Doehring (D
Circa 1915 - Asia Publishing House, Bangkok - First Edition
Two massive elephant folio’s of Döhring’s most impressive work, first edition, ‘printed by letterpress, with unique handcrafted metal plates showing a scene from the Ramayana on both front covers. It contains high quality images and descriptions of Thai lacquer designs in black and gold, and was, at the time, the leading work on Thai lacquer art’ [British Library].
One text-volume with 62 illustrations in the text and one plate-volume with 50 plates, in the publisher’s original cloth. Scarce and handsomely presented.
The German architect Karl (Doehring) Döhring (1879-1941) first came to Thailand as an architect of railway station buildings and was later appointed as King Chulalongkorn’s first architect due to his outstanding expertise, designing various buildings in and around Bangkok including including four royal palaces. Döhring then developed a keen interest in the fields of Buddhist architecture, Thai art and cultural history, and also worked as an archaeologist, novelist and translator, becoming one of the most profound foreign researchers on Thailand of his time.
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Circa 1915 - Asia Publishing House, Bangkok - First Edition
Two massive elephant folio’s of Döhring’s most impressive work, first edition, ‘printed by letterpress, with unique handcrafted metal plates showing a scene from the Ramayana on both front covers. It contains high quality images and descriptions of Thai lacquer designs in black and gold, and was, at the time, the leading work on Thai lacquer art’ [British Library].One text-volume with 62 illustrations in the text and one plate-volume with 50 plates, in the publisher’s original cloth. Scarce and handsomely presented.
The German architect Karl (Doehring) Döhring (1879-1941) first came to Thailand as an architect of railway station buildings and was later appointed as King Chulalongkorn’s first architect due to his outstanding expertise, designing various buildings in and around Bangkok including including four royal palaces. Döhring then developed a keen interest in the fields of Buddhist architecture, Thai art and cultural history, and also worked as an archaeologist, novelist and translator, becoming one of the most profound foreign researchers on Thailand of his time.
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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, first translated by Constance Garnett between 1912 and 1920, and now difficult to assemble in this format.
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Price HK$ 32,000
1949-1951 - William Heinemann, London
A finely bound twelve volume set of Dostoevsky’s novels, first translated by Constance Garnett between 1912 and 1920, and now difficult to assemble in this format.
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Price HK$ 32,000