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Dead Man Murder -
Bernard Newman
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine first edition.
Monsieur Papa Pontivy, tired of catching German spies is set off on a different investigation when his friend Colonel Everidge, MBE and late of the British Intelligence Service is brutally murdered.
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Price HK$ 800
1946 - Victor Gollancz Ltd, London - First Edition
A fine first edition.Monsieur Papa Pontivy, tired of catching German spies is set off on a different investigation when his friend Colonel Everidge, MBE and late of the British Intelligence Service is brutally murdered.
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Price HK$ 800
The Old Man In the Corner -
Baroness Orczy
1909 - William Briggs, Toronto - First Canadian Edition (or first edition, Canadian issue, comprised of the sheets from the Greening and Co. publication of the same year with a new title-leaf)
‘The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table. ‘Mysteries!’ he commented. ‘There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.’
A superb copy, illustrated with eight full page plates by H. M. Brock.
The nameless hero of this masterpiece has since been credited as the world’s first ‘armchair’ detective, solving crimes simply by reading newspaper articles whilst sipping tea in the corner of London’s A.B.C Teashop. His eccentricities include tying and unravelling complicated knots of string as he explains his deductions to his primary audience, Polly Burton, a young journalist who eagerly chronicles his adventures.
Throughout a series of twelve short stories and anecdotes, our protagonist does occasionally find purpose to leave his chair for the odd courtroom visit, and extremely polite interrogations, though, unusually for the genre, our hero disdains the police and seldom gives up the identities of the various perpetrators, often leaving them to wander the streets of London unassailed.
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Price HK$ 1,200
1909 - William Briggs, Toronto - First Canadian Edition (or first edition, Canadian issue, comprised of the sheets from the Greening and Co. publication of the same year with a new title-leaf)
‘The man in the corner pushed aside his glass, and leant across the table. ‘Mysteries!’ he commented. ‘There is no such thing as a mystery in connection with any crime, provided intelligence is brought to bear upon its investigation.’A superb copy, illustrated with eight full page plates by H. M. Brock.
The nameless hero of this masterpiece has since been credited as the world’s first ‘armchair’ detective, solving crimes simply by reading newspaper articles whilst sipping tea in the corner of London’s A.B.C Teashop. His eccentricities include tying and unravelling complicated knots of string as he explains his deductions to his primary audience, Polly Burton, a young journalist who eagerly chronicles his adventures.
Throughout a series of twelve short stories and anecdotes, our protagonist does occasionally find purpose to leave his chair for the odd courtroom visit, and extremely polite interrogations, though, unusually for the genre, our hero disdains the police and seldom gives up the identities of the various perpetrators, often leaving them to wander the streets of London unassailed.
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The Motives of Nicholas Holtz. Being the Weird Tales of the Ironville Virus -
Thomas Painter, Alexander Laing, Lynd Ward (illustrator)
1936 - Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, New York - First Edition
A sharp and bright first edition, rather scarce in such nice condition. With frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward.
“‘The Ironville Virus’, a bacterium capable of reproduction at a terrific rate, which to one man’s grief, proves to be the carrier of a deadly plague and which, as far as anyone knows, has no antivirus...”
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Price HK$ 2,200
1936 - Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, New York - First Edition
A sharp and bright first edition, rather scarce in such nice condition. With frontispiece and dust jacket illustrated by Lynd Ward.“‘The Ironville Virus’, a bacterium capable of reproduction at a terrific rate, which to one man’s grief, proves to be the carrier of a deadly plague and which, as far as anyone knows, has no antivirus...”
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The Godwulf Manuscript - Signed -
Robert B. Parker
1974 - Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston - First Edition
‘Halfway through my steak I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the bar. I looked like someone who ought to eat alone. I didn't look in the mirror again.’
A handsome, signed first edition of Robert Parker’s debut novel, featuring the introduction of hard-boiled P.I, Spenser, as he investigates the theft of a fourteenth century manuscript from Boston University, the only clue being the bullet-riddled corpse of a former student...
The novel is credited with reviving popular interest in crime-fiction during the early 1970’s, primarily due to its unconventional protagonist, a pupil of the ‘school of hard knocks’, with little regard for rules, and even less for the cops.
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Price HK$ 4,000
1974 - Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston - First Edition
‘Halfway through my steak I caught sight of myself in the mirror behind the bar. I looked like someone who ought to eat alone. I didn't look in the mirror again.’A handsome, signed first edition of Robert Parker’s debut novel, featuring the introduction of hard-boiled P.I, Spenser, as he investigates the theft of a fourteenth century manuscript from Boston University, the only clue being the bullet-riddled corpse of a former student...
The novel is credited with reviving popular interest in crime-fiction during the early 1970’s, primarily due to its unconventional protagonist, a pupil of the ‘school of hard knocks’, with little regard for rules, and even less for the cops.
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Spy For Sale -
Laurence Payne
1969 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A sharp first edition of the first book in the John Tibbett Mystery series, in which ‘Tibby’, a young unskilled burglar, is thrown into the international bodysnatching trade ‘for which, to put it charitably, he is professionally unqualified’.
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Price HK$ 1,300
1969 - Hodder and Stoughton, London - First Edition
A sharp first edition of the first book in the John Tibbett Mystery series, in which ‘Tibby’, a young unskilled burglar, is thrown into the international bodysnatching trade ‘for which, to put it charitably, he is professionally unqualified’.
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Raffles and the Key Man -
Barry Perowne (pseud. Philip Atkey)
1940 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia New York - First Edition
‘The peerless Raffles returns to continue his thrilling career outside the law. Raffles, who is well known as a second-story burglar of outstanding ability, a cracksman, a lone wolf always one jump ahead of the police, runs afoul of a master crook known as the “Key Man”” [from the dust jacket]
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Price HK$ 1,500
1940 - J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia New York - First Edition
‘The peerless Raffles returns to continue his thrilling career outside the law. Raffles, who is well known as a second-story burglar of outstanding ability, a cracksman, a lone wolf always one jump ahead of the police, runs afoul of a master crook known as the “Key Man”” [from the dust jacket]
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A Morbid Taste for Bones. A Mediaeval Whodunnit -
Ellis Peters (Pseud. Edith Pargeter)
1977 - MacMillan London Limited, London - First Edition
A fine and thus scarce true first edition of the first Brother Cadfael mystery, set in twelfth-century Britain. After leaving his home in Trefriw, Gwynedd, apprenticing with an English wool merchant and participating in the First Crusade and other adventures, Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd returned to England and joins a Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury as gardener, herbalist and occasional translator.
Yes, he is Welsh, and yes this is a fine copy, with none of the toning to the spine usually encountered.
‘Cadfael must surely become a cult figure of crime fiction.’ – Financial Times, London.
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Price HK$ 6,000
1977 - MacMillan London Limited, London - First Edition
A fine and thus scarce true first edition of the first Brother Cadfael mystery, set in twelfth-century Britain. After leaving his home in Trefriw, Gwynedd, apprenticing with an English wool merchant and participating in the First Crusade and other adventures, Cadfael ap Meilyr ap Dafydd returned to England and joins a Benedictine monastery in Shrewsbury as gardener, herbalist and occasional translator. Yes, he is Welsh, and yes this is a fine copy, with none of the toning to the spine usually encountered.
‘Cadfael must surely become a cult figure of crime fiction.’ – Financial Times, London.
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Minions of the Moon -
Eden Phillpotts
1934 - Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition in a near fine and rare example of the dust jacket. A historical novel of Napoleonic times in Devonshire, and of course the prison of Dartmoor, which even then stood upon those desolate moors, with escapes, adventures, highway robbery, romance and full blooded drama.
True first edition in black cloth with yellow lettering, and publisher’s autumn 19324 catalogue to rear.
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Price HK$ 8,000
1934 - Hutchinson & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., London - First Edition
First edition in a near fine and rare example of the dust jacket. A historical novel of Napoleonic times in Devonshire, and of course the prison of Dartmoor, which even then stood upon those desolate moors, with escapes, adventures, highway robbery, romance and full blooded drama.True first edition in black cloth with yellow lettering, and publisher’s autumn 19324 catalogue to rear.
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Price HK$ 8,000