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Christmas Holiday -
William Somerset Maugham
1939 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition
An exceptional example of the first edition, one of Maugham’s darker tales, Paris, the Russian Revolution, a lost generation and self-destruction.
The basis for the 1944 film noir, a highlight for director Robert Siodmak, starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.
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1939 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition
An exceptional example of the first edition, one of Maugham’s darker tales, Paris, the Russian Revolution, a lost generation and self-destruction. The basis for the 1944 film noir, a highlight for director Robert Siodmak, starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly.
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The Gentleman in the Parlour: A Record of a Journey from Rangoon to Haiphong -
William Somerset Maugham
1930 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
A superior first edition of ‘Maugham's finest travel book’.
‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House]
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1930 - William Heinemann Ltd., London - First Edition
A superior first edition of ‘Maugham's finest travel book’. ‘As the urbane novelist wends his way through tropic climes, he reads Proust under the mosquito netting, listens to stories of passion and madness from British colonials gone to seed, and bears up under the merciless sun, sipping at a gin and bitters and laying out a hand of solitaire’ - Washington Post
An account of the author's trip through what was then Burma and Siam, ending in Haiphong, Vietnam. Whether by river to Mandalay, on horse through the mountains and forests of the Shan States to Bangkok, or onwards by sea, Maugham's vivid descriptions bring a lost world to life. [Random House]
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The Border Trilogy - All The Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain -
Cormac McCarthy
1992 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - First Editions
McCarthy’s brilliant Border Trilogy in first edition, fine in fine dust jackets.
The young men in these novels come of age on south-western ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
‘An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century.’ - San Francisco Chronicle
In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family's Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, finding a job breaking horses and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, 16-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch and instead of killing it decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico. These drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. McCarthy's haunting evocation of two young men poised on the edge of a world about to change forever serves as a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. [Picador]
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1992 - Alfred A. Knopf, New York - First Editions
McCarthy’s brilliant Border Trilogy in first edition, fine in fine dust jackets.The young men in these novels come of age on south-western ranches in the 1930s, while across the border Mexico beckons them with its desolate beauty and the cruel promise of a place where dreams are paid for in blood.
‘An American classic to stand with the finest literary achievements of the century.’ - San Francisco Chronicle
In All the Pretty Horses, young John Grady Cole, dispossessed by the sale of his family's Texas ranch, heads across the border in search of the cowboy life, finding a job breaking horses and a dangerously ill-fated romance. In The Crossing, 16-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch and instead of killing it decides to take it on a perilous journey home to the mountains of Mexico. These drifters come together years later in Cities of the Plain, a magnificent tale of friendship and passion. McCarthy's haunting evocation of two young men poised on the edge of a world about to change forever serves as a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. [Picador]
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Beast in View -
Margaret Millar
1955 - Random House, New York - First Edition
The psychological thriller, ‘strongly plotted accounts of eruptions from the depths of the unconscious’, by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form, winner of numerous awards and top rankings including the 1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award, and one of the Mystery Writers of America's Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Difficult to find in such a bright dust jacket.
Beast in View was adapted for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in the 60s and Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 80s. Writing about the book in 1984 for the New York Times, Anthony Boucher said, it was “written with such complete realization of every character that the most bitter antagonist of mystery fiction may be forced to acknowledge it as a work of art.” - Jake Hinson, Hall of Famers, Criminal Element.
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1955 - Random House, New York - First Edition
The psychological thriller, ‘strongly plotted accounts of eruptions from the depths of the unconscious’, by a mistress of suspense at the top of her form, winner of numerous awards and top rankings including the 1956 Edgar Allan Poe Award, and one of the Mystery Writers of America's Top 100 Mystery Novels of All Time. Difficult to find in such a bright dust jacket.Beast in View was adapted for The Alfred Hitchcock Hour in the 60s and Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the 80s. Writing about the book in 1984 for the New York Times, Anthony Boucher said, it was “written with such complete realization of every character that the most bitter antagonist of mystery fiction may be forced to acknowledge it as a work of art.” - Jake Hinson, Hall of Famers, Criminal Element.
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Scottish Country; Fifteen Essays by Scottish Authors -
George Scott Moncrieff (editor), Robert Adams, Rattar (photographers)
1935 - Wishart Books, London - First Edition
Fifteen essays by Scottish authors, selected to represent fifteen areas of Scotland, edited and introduced by the Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet, George Scott Moncrieff.
Emotively illustrated with sixteen double page black and white photographic plates mostly by the Scottish photographer Robert M. Adam (1885-1967), and also by Raphael Tuck,
Authors include High MacDiarmid, Eric Linklater, Neil M Gunn, Dr. Mackay Mackenzie, Bernard Fergusson, William Mackay Mackenzie, Fionn Mac Colla, Campbell Nairne, Colin Walkinshaw (pseud. James Macarthur Reid), Hector MacIver, John Robertson Allan, Moray MacLaren, Ian Macpherson, and J.H. Whyte.
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1935 - Wishart Books, London - First Edition
Fifteen essays by Scottish authors, selected to represent fifteen areas of Scotland, edited and introduced by the Scottish novelist, playwright, and poet, George Scott Moncrieff.Emotively illustrated with sixteen double page black and white photographic plates mostly by the Scottish photographer Robert M. Adam (1885-1967), and also by Raphael Tuck,
Authors include High MacDiarmid, Eric Linklater, Neil M Gunn, Dr. Mackay Mackenzie, Bernard Fergusson, William Mackay Mackenzie, Fionn Mac Colla, Campbell Nairne, Colin Walkinshaw (pseud. James Macarthur Reid), Hector MacIver, John Robertson Allan, Moray MacLaren, Ian Macpherson, and J.H. Whyte.
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Rumpole -
John Mortimer
1995 - The Folio Society, London
A finely bound compilation of Horace Rumpole’s greatest hits and misses, selected and introduced by his creator, John Mortimer, illustrated throughout by Paul Cox.
Consisting of:- ‘Rumpole and the Younger Generation, Rumpole and the Show Folk, Rumpole and the Old Boy Net, Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim, Rumpole and the Tap End, Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation, Rumpole a la Carte, Rumpole and the Children of the Devil, Rumpole and the Family Pride, and Rumpole on Trial’.
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1995 - The Folio Society, London
A finely bound compilation of Horace Rumpole’s greatest hits and misses, selected and introduced by his creator, John Mortimer, illustrated throughout by Paul Cox. Consisting of:- ‘Rumpole and the Younger Generation, Rumpole and the Show Folk, Rumpole and the Old Boy Net, Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim, Rumpole and the Tap End, Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation, Rumpole a la Carte, Rumpole and the Children of the Devil, Rumpole and the Family Pride, and Rumpole on Trial’.
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Boogie-Woogie - Signed -
Danny Moynihan, Damien Hirst
2000 - Duck Editions, London - First Edition, One of 500.
A fine first and limited edition signed by Damian Hirst who designed the dust jacket and by the author Danny Moynihan, art dealer and gallery manager.
‘Art is about life; the art world is about money. Boogie Woogie is where the two collide’ - Damian Hirst.
‘Boogie Woogie is a fast-paced satirical novel that dives into the dark excesses of the international art scene of the 1990s. The movement within the book has a constant beat. Driven by the pursuit of fame, fortune and the 20th century masterpiece, Boogie Woogie reveals the inner workings of these circles through ambition and borderline obsession, sex, money, and drugs’ – Aesthetica.
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2000 - Duck Editions, London - First Edition, One of 500.
A fine first and limited edition signed by Damian Hirst who designed the dust jacket and by the author Danny Moynihan, art dealer and gallery manager.‘Art is about life; the art world is about money. Boogie Woogie is where the two collide’ - Damian Hirst.
‘Boogie Woogie is a fast-paced satirical novel that dives into the dark excesses of the international art scene of the 1990s. The movement within the book has a constant beat. Driven by the pursuit of fame, fortune and the 20th century masterpiece, Boogie Woogie reveals the inner workings of these circles through ambition and borderline obsession, sex, money, and drugs’ – Aesthetica.
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Lolita -
Vladimir Nabokov
1955 - Olympia Press, Paris - First Edition First Issue
‘Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul... Lo. Lee. Ta... She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.’
A superb set of Nabokov’s masterpiece, his notorious tale of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze, banned in the UK and US until 1958.
‘This is still one of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year. As for its pornographic content, I can think of few volumes more likely to quench the flames of lust than this exact and immediate description of its consequences’ – The New York Times 1958
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1955 - Olympia Press, Paris - First Edition First Issue
‘Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul... Lo. Lee. Ta... She was Lo, plain Lo, in the morning, standing four feet ten in one sock. She was Lola in slacks. She was Dolly at school. She was Dolores on the dotted line. But in my arms she was always Lolita.’A superb set of Nabokov’s masterpiece, his notorious tale of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet, Dolores Haze, banned in the UK and US until 1958.
‘This is still one of the funniest and one of the saddest books that will be published this year. As for its pornographic content, I can think of few volumes more likely to quench the flames of lust than this exact and immediate description of its consequences’ – The New York Times 1958
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