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Vengeance Is Mine! -
Mickey Spillane
1950 - E. P. Dutton & Company, New York - First Edition
First edition of the third Mike Hammer mystery, in a sexy bright dust jacket, that is usually found in much poorer condition.
Mike Hammer wakes up in a hotel room and the buddy he went on a blackout bender with last night has a fresh hole in his chest. The finger of suspicion is pointed his way. When it’s ruled a suicide, he’s cut loose, but his P.I. license is revoked. Hammer smells murder, and nothing’s going to keep him off the trail. As he untangles the web of corruption from the outside, the bodies start piling up. Hammer will need to keep his wits about him, and his .45 ready, on the hunt for justice – and vengeance. Yes, of course there is a blonde... her name is Juno.
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1950 - E. P. Dutton & Company, New York - First Edition
First edition of the third Mike Hammer mystery, in a sexy bright dust jacket, that is usually found in much poorer condition.Mike Hammer wakes up in a hotel room and the buddy he went on a blackout bender with last night has a fresh hole in his chest. The finger of suspicion is pointed his way. When it’s ruled a suicide, he’s cut loose, but his P.I. license is revoked. Hammer smells murder, and nothing’s going to keep him off the trail. As he untangles the web of corruption from the outside, the bodies start piling up. Hammer will need to keep his wits about him, and his .45 ready, on the hunt for justice – and vengeance. Yes, of course there is a blonde... her name is Juno.
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Kiss Me, Deadly -
Mickey Spillane
1952 - E. P. Dutton & Co., New York - First Edition
The sixth and final Mike Hammer mystery before Spillane went religious, and the source for Spillane's best-remembered film adaptation (and the one he most hated) with Robert Aldrich's 1955 fever dream starring Ralph Meeker. The first P.I. novel to ever make the best seller list (and I’m sure, annoy the hell out of) the New York Times.
This time the blonde (surprise), jumps out in front of Hammer’s car... Hammer takes a sordid dive into Mafia operations with all the horrors of a private army of gangsters and killers. The goal - find two million dollars worth of dope – and before Hammer undercut the local police, homicide, the F.B.I., and got the answer, a lot of people died horribly.
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1952 - E. P. Dutton & Co., New York - First Edition
The sixth and final Mike Hammer mystery before Spillane went religious, and the source for Spillane's best-remembered film adaptation (and the one he most hated) with Robert Aldrich's 1955 fever dream starring Ralph Meeker. The first P.I. novel to ever make the best seller list (and I’m sure, annoy the hell out of) the New York Times.This time the blonde (surprise), jumps out in front of Hammer’s car... Hammer takes a sordid dive into Mafia operations with all the horrors of a private army of gangsters and killers. The goal - find two million dollars worth of dope – and before Hammer undercut the local police, homicide, the F.B.I., and got the answer, a lot of people died horribly.
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Mystery at Milford Haven -
Taffrail (pseud. Captain Henry Dorling)
1936 - Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London - First Edition
A fine copy in the rare dust jacket.
A maritime murder mystery by British naval office Captain Henry Taprell ‘Taffrail’ Dorling.
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1936 - Hodder and Stoughton Limited, London - First Edition
A fine copy in the rare dust jacket.A maritime murder mystery by British naval office Captain Henry Taprell ‘Taffrail’ Dorling.
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Three Plots for Asey Mayo -
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
1942 - W. W. Norton & Company. Inc., New York - First Edition
‘He made rapid plans as he strode forward. After another look about the landing he’d visit Brandt’s studio. Somehow he could get in. Somewhere he should be able to find a clue to the girl’s name and her address...’
A superb copy in the striking dust jacket. Three Mayo Mysteries packed into one volume: the adventures of Taylor’s wonderfully imaginative and down-to-earth detective, Asey Mayo; dedicated protector of Cape Cod, as he catapults through crime scenes in a manner reminiscent of Laurel & Hardy.
Mayo’s personal history is ambiguous, since he seems to have engaged in secret work during World War I but once claimed to have spent the war years peeling potatoes.
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1942 - W. W. Norton & Company. Inc., New York - First Edition
‘He made rapid plans as he strode forward. After another look about the landing he’d visit Brandt’s studio. Somehow he could get in. Somewhere he should be able to find a clue to the girl’s name and her address...’A superb copy in the striking dust jacket. Three Mayo Mysteries packed into one volume: the adventures of Taylor’s wonderfully imaginative and down-to-earth detective, Asey Mayo; dedicated protector of Cape Cod, as he catapults through crime scenes in a manner reminiscent of Laurel & Hardy.
Mayo’s personal history is ambiguous, since he seems to have engaged in secret work during World War I but once claimed to have spent the war years peeling potatoes.
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A disturbing duo - The Family Arsenal - with - My Secret History -
Paul Theroux
1976 - Hamish Hamilton, London - First Editions
Two first editions of of Paul Theroux’s more exotic and disturbing works.
The Family Arsenal - Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order, flirts with terrorists. Mayo, has just made a political statement - stealing a Flemish painting. Murf the bomb-maker scrawls 'Arsenal Rule' across the city's walls, whilst Brodie bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion. A novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people.
‘One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene.' - The New York Times.
'Brilliant and haunting. . . the ingenious of the plot, the London setting. . . the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force' - Observer.
My Secret History - 'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History… Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno… He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' - Observer.
‘Merges the two genres he's famous for... My Secret History is about the permanence of marriage in the face of mistrust and infidelity; it's about the wisdom of women and the foolishness of men; and it's about mature love as the necessary and sometimes successful antidote to youthful selfishness.’ - New York Times Book Review.
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1976 - Hamish Hamilton, London - First Editions
Two first editions of of Paul Theroux’s more exotic and disturbing works.The Family Arsenal - Hood, a renegade American diplomat, envisions a new urban order, flirts with terrorists. Mayo, has just made a political statement - stealing a Flemish painting. Murf the bomb-maker scrawls 'Arsenal Rule' across the city's walls, whilst Brodie bombs Euston and afterwards worries about her complexion. A novel of London lowlife and the dispossessed, and a powerful and violent thriller of disenchanted people.
‘One of the most evocative, intelligently crafted suspense novels in years - like the early fiction of Graham Greene.' - The New York Times.
'Brilliant and haunting. . . the ingenious of the plot, the London setting. . . the trapped and interwoven people, and the balefully witty observation, have an undistracted force' - Observer.
My Secret History - 'Nothing on the shelf has quite prepared the reader for My Secret History… Parent saunters into the book aged fifteen, shouldering a .22 Mossberg rifle as earlier, more innocent American heroes used to tote a fishing pole. In his pocket is a paperback translation of Dante's Inferno… He is a creature of naked and unquenchable ego, greedy for sex, money, experience, another life' - Observer.
‘Merges the two genres he's famous for... My Secret History is about the permanence of marriage in the face of mistrust and infidelity; it's about the wisdom of women and the foolishness of men; and it's about mature love as the necessary and sometimes successful antidote to youthful selfishness.’ - New York Times Book Review.
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The Crooked Samaritan - Inscribed -
Paul Trent (Pseud. of Edward Platt)
1933 - Ward, London and Melbourne - First Edition
Inscribed to the half title ‘To Llew. S. Jones, from his friend The Author, December 1933’ and signed ‘Paul Trent’ to the title page.
A fine signed and inscribed first edition of this courtroom drama in a very good example of the rare dust jacket.
Featuring Roger Welby, Barrister and gentleman romantic, who comes to the aid of his persecuted father, a lawyer who had been tempted away from his profession by the riches of the city and a life of financial schemes which finally proved his undoing. The author, Edward Platt was himself a solicitor.
Paul Trent was the pseudonym of Edward Platt (1872-1946), English solicitor, goalkeeper (made his debut for Gloucester AFC as a goalkeeper in 1889), and prolific novelist who wrote over 80 books under the pseudonyms of Paul Trent and Wilmot Kaye.
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1933 - Ward, London and Melbourne - First Edition
Inscribed to the half title ‘To Llew. S. Jones, from his friend The Author, December 1933’ and signed ‘Paul Trent’ to the title page.A fine signed and inscribed first edition of this courtroom drama in a very good example of the rare dust jacket.
Featuring Roger Welby, Barrister and gentleman romantic, who comes to the aid of his persecuted father, a lawyer who had been tempted away from his profession by the riches of the city and a life of financial schemes which finally proved his undoing. The author, Edward Platt was himself a solicitor.
Paul Trent was the pseudonym of Edward Platt (1872-1946), English solicitor, goalkeeper (made his debut for Gloucester AFC as a goalkeeper in 1889), and prolific novelist who wrote over 80 books under the pseudonyms of Paul Trent and Wilmot Kaye.
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The Crooks’ Shepherd -
Seldon Truss
1936 - Lothrop, Boston - First American Edition
A fine copy in a bright and rare dust jacket.
Featuring Chief Inspector Gidleigh of Scotland Yard.
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1936 - Lothrop, Boston - First American Edition
A fine copy in a bright and rare dust jacket.Featuring Chief Inspector Gidleigh of Scotland Yard.
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Alibi -
Frederic F. Van de Water
1930 - Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, New York - First Edition
First edition in fine dust jacket.
Featuring Corporal Haddenfield in a ‘swift moving tale of murder and the State Police’.
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1930 - Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, New York - First Edition
First edition in fine dust jacket.Featuring Corporal Haddenfield in a ‘swift moving tale of murder and the State Police’.
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Price HK$ 3,500