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The Devil to Pay -
Ellery Queen
1938 - Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York - First Edition
First edition featuring Ellery Queen as he heads to Hollywood...
‘Some slight hints of what you will find’: ‘An exotic movie actress, the swivel-hipped blonde, Winni Moon, and her scented chimpanzee; a murder which, already precious, became a managing editor’s dream; Pink, who came from Flatbush, Brooklyn; Solly Spaeth who was spawned in New York...’
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Price HK$ 5,500
1938 - Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York - First Edition
First edition featuring Ellery Queen as he heads to Hollywood...‘Some slight hints of what you will find’: ‘An exotic movie actress, the swivel-hipped blonde, Winni Moon, and her scented chimpanzee; a murder which, already precious, became a managing editor’s dream; Pink, who came from Flatbush, Brooklyn; Solly Spaeth who was spawned in New York...’
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The Dragon's Teeth. A Problem in Deduction -
Ellery Queen
1939 - Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York - First Edition
A nice clean first edition of one of the best Ellery Queen mysteries in which Ellery Queen teams up with the son of a former police colleague, the casework begins with the death of a retired munitions magnate, who dies unexpectedly while sailing his yacht in the Caribbean, and ends up in the search for two missing heiresses.
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Price HK$ 7,000
1939 - Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York - First Edition
A nice clean first edition of one of the best Ellery Queen mysteries in which Ellery Queen teams up with the son of a former police colleague, the casework begins with the death of a retired munitions magnate, who dies unexpectedly while sailing his yacht in the Caribbean, and ends up in the search for two missing heiresses.
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Ellery Queen's Challenge to the Reader - Inscribed -
Ellery Queen, H. C. Bailey
1938 - Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York - One of 50 De Luxe editions.
The ‘Challenge’ - In each of these 25 short stories the name of the detective is changed; the reader must recognise the great detectives by their methods, mannerisms, and other “internal” evidence. The correct names of the detectives are revealed at the end of each story.
One of the rare fifty de luxe signed gift editions, with rather fabulous association, being the one presented to ‘H. C. Bailey’, British Golden Age author, whose detective ‘Reggie Fortune’ features in one of the stories contained within, of course we will not tell you which one...
This signature of ‘Ellery Queen’, the creation of authors Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, is most likely to be Dannay’s.
Containing the first book appearances of Dashiell Hammett’s A Man Called Spade, about the now legendary detective Sam Spade, and T. S. Stribling’s Bullets, about detective Professor Poggioli.
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Price HK$ 25,000
1938 - Frederick A. Stokes Company, New York - One of 50 De Luxe editions.
The ‘Challenge’ - In each of these 25 short stories the name of the detective is changed; the reader must recognise the great detectives by their methods, mannerisms, and other “internal” evidence. The correct names of the detectives are revealed at the end of each story.One of the rare fifty de luxe signed gift editions, with rather fabulous association, being the one presented to ‘H. C. Bailey’, British Golden Age author, whose detective ‘Reggie Fortune’ features in one of the stories contained within, of course we will not tell you which one...
This signature of ‘Ellery Queen’, the creation of authors Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, is most likely to be Dannay’s.
Containing the first book appearances of Dashiell Hammett’s A Man Called Spade, about the now legendary detective Sam Spade, and T. S. Stribling’s Bullets, about detective Professor Poggioli.
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Vanity Dies Hard - Signed -
Ruth Rendell
1966 - John Long, London - First Edition
A fine copy in bright dust jacket, signed by the author to title page.
Wealthy Alice Whittaker – now Alice Fielding – is known for her generosity, and when her friend Nesta vanishes Alice is determined to find her and help her. If that means money, well, Alice has plenty of it.
Then Alice starts to feel sick – a virus perhaps, something she just can't shake. Her handsome husband, who is ten years younger than she is, seems determined to keep her at home. Does he just want her to feel better? Or is he trying to keep her from finding Nesta?
Ill though she is, Alice can't help asking questions. And the more she learns about Nesta's disappearance, the more certain she becomes that her own life is in peril....
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Price HK$ 9,000
1966 - John Long, London - First Edition
A fine copy in bright dust jacket, signed by the author to title page. Wealthy Alice Whittaker – now Alice Fielding – is known for her generosity, and when her friend Nesta vanishes Alice is determined to find her and help her. If that means money, well, Alice has plenty of it.
Then Alice starts to feel sick – a virus perhaps, something she just can't shake. Her handsome husband, who is ten years younger than she is, seems determined to keep her at home. Does he just want her to feel better? Or is he trying to keep her from finding Nesta?
Ill though she is, Alice can't help asking questions. And the more she learns about Nesta's disappearance, the more certain she becomes that her own life is in peril....
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Death at the Helm. A Dr. Priestley Mystery -
John Rhode
1941 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
Featuring Dr. Lancelot Priestley ’one of the enduring figures of detective fiction, an awesome old party with a passion for truth and a restless, analytic brain that forbids compromise and marshals evidence with mathematical precision’.
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1941 - Dodd, New York - First American Edition
Featuring Dr. Lancelot Priestley ’one of the enduring figures of detective fiction, an awesome old party with a passion for truth and a restless, analytic brain that forbids compromise and marshals evidence with mathematical precision’.
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‘The Invisible President’ A Fu Manchu Series, Complete in Twelve Parts in Collier's Magazine -
Sax Rohmer (pseudonym of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward)
February 29 - Crowell Publishing Company, Springfield - First Editions
Dr. Fu Manchu finds the time ripe to reach out for America - beginning the most startling of all the master-criminal's singular adventures.
A scarce near fine set of twelve issues containing the complete Fu Manchu Series The Invisible President, illustrated by C.C. Beall, and later published in book form as President Fu Manchu
In magnificent condition, as if they had just been placed on the doorstep of Mr. Chas Skinner of Watkins Glen, New York (the original recipient). Illustrations, stories, articles, cartoons, and advertisements, all wonderfully evoking a bygone era.
‘President’ Fu Manchu! Does the extent of his fiendish ambition know no bounds?
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Price HK$ 9,800
February 29 - Crowell Publishing Company, Springfield - First Editions
Dr. Fu Manchu finds the time ripe to reach out for America - beginning the most startling of all the master-criminal's singular adventures.A scarce near fine set of twelve issues containing the complete Fu Manchu Series The Invisible President, illustrated by C.C. Beall, and later published in book form as President Fu Manchu
In magnificent condition, as if they had just been placed on the doorstep of Mr. Chas Skinner of Watkins Glen, New York (the original recipient). Illustrations, stories, articles, cartoons, and advertisements, all wonderfully evoking a bygone era.
‘President’ Fu Manchu! Does the extent of his fiendish ambition know no bounds?
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Re-Enter Dr. Fu Manchu -
Sax Rohmer (pseudonym of Arthur Henry Sarsfield Ward)
1957 - Herbert Jenkins, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of the thirteenth Fu Manchu adventure containing all of the required archetypes; square-jawed hero, fiendish oriental skullduggery and that particular fascination of Mr. Rohmer, the woman whose main value lies in her ability to fascinate and ensnare ANY man.
One can only assume that such women lead a very busy life of constant stress, and being taken under the shadowy wing of the arch-nemesis of western civilisation can only come as a relief. If nothing else it'll filter out all those guys called Chet who are 'only in town for the weekend', gather in sinister gangs in hotel bars and who have strangely pale patches where their wedding rings should be. (thanks to the legendary Jonathan Kearns for this description).
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Price HK$ 4,000
1957 - Herbert Jenkins, London - First Edition
A fine first edition of the thirteenth Fu Manchu adventure containing all of the required archetypes; square-jawed hero, fiendish oriental skullduggery and that particular fascination of Mr. Rohmer, the woman whose main value lies in her ability to fascinate and ensnare ANY man.One can only assume that such women lead a very busy life of constant stress, and being taken under the shadowy wing of the arch-nemesis of western civilisation can only come as a relief. If nothing else it'll filter out all those guys called Chet who are 'only in town for the weekend', gather in sinister gangs in hotel bars and who have strangely pale patches where their wedding rings should be. (thanks to the legendary Jonathan Kearns for this description).
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Three Down Vulnerable. A Beau and Pogy Murder Mystery -
Z. H. Ross
1946 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First Edition
A fine example of the first murder mystery by Zola Helen Ross.
Featuring Beau and Porgy in ‘the dark mountains of Nevada’ and ‘Lost Canyon Camp, a collection of thirteen shacks that a philanthropist has turned over for the use of actors out of work’.
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Price HK$ 2,400
1946 - The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis - First Edition
A fine example of the first murder mystery by Zola Helen Ross.Featuring Beau and Porgy in ‘the dark mountains of Nevada’ and ‘Lost Canyon Camp, a collection of thirteen shacks that a philanthropist has turned over for the use of actors out of work’.
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Price HK$ 2,400