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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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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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The Oldest Inhabitant. A Comedy -
Eden Phillpotts
1934 - The Macmillan Company, New York - First American Edition
A fine first edition in fine dust jacket.
A plot based in a small Devonshire village, and centred around one of it’s oldest residents, a sly old scamp and about whom his oldest friend says “a artfully and more utterly devious and downy old man than he is don’t draw breath”...
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1934 - The Macmillan Company, New York - First American Edition
A fine first edition in fine dust jacket.A plot based in a small Devonshire village, and centred around one of it’s oldest residents, a sly old scamp and about whom his oldest friend says “a artfully and more utterly devious and downy old man than he is don’t draw breath”...
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The Bell Jar -
Sylvia Plath
1966 - Faber and Faber, London - First Edition under the name ‘Sylvia Plath’
‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenburgs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.’
A superlative first edition of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s first and only novel. Rare in such fine condition. Originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas a month before she committed suicide in 1963, it was first published under her real name in this edition of 1966.
‘This semi-autobiographical novel is raw, emotional, and uncompromising, as it chronicles the rise and breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a young writer on a scholarship in New York, as she spirals into chronic depression. Hailed as one of the most significant works of literary fiction in the 20th century, the novel has become a landmark in its depiction of mental illness, largely based on Plath’s own experiences undergoing electroshock therapy’.
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1966 - Faber and Faber, London - First Edition under the name ‘Sylvia Plath’
‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenburgs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.’A superlative first edition of The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath’s first and only novel. Rare in such fine condition. Originally published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas a month before she committed suicide in 1963, it was first published under her real name in this edition of 1966.
‘This semi-autobiographical novel is raw, emotional, and uncompromising, as it chronicles the rise and breakdown of Esther Greenwood, a young writer on a scholarship in New York, as she spirals into chronic depression. Hailed as one of the most significant works of literary fiction in the 20th century, the novel has become a landmark in its depiction of mental illness, largely based on Plath’s own experiences undergoing electroshock therapy’.
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Johnson Over Jordan - The Play. And All About It (An Essay) -
J. B. Priestley
1939 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition
‘J.B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century. And it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius’ – Dame Judi Dench
A smartly bound copy of J.B. Priestley’s ‘adventure in theatre’, Johnson Over Jordan – the story of ‘everyman’ Robert Johnson who attempts to make sense of a life half lived – was the play he considered his finest and most ambitious achievement. Also features an essay by Priestly on the writing of the play and its origins, and the critical reception of the stage production.
Illustrated with 8 full page black and white photographic plates of the original 1939 stage production, which starred Ralph Richardson and featured a musical score by Benjamin Britten.
With a black and white photographic portrait of the playwright tipped in to front endpaper and the front panel of the original dust jacket laid in.
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1939 - William Heinemann Ltd, London - First Edition
‘J.B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century. And it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius’ – Dame Judi DenchA smartly bound copy of J.B. Priestley’s ‘adventure in theatre’, Johnson Over Jordan – the story of ‘everyman’ Robert Johnson who attempts to make sense of a life half lived – was the play he considered his finest and most ambitious achievement. Also features an essay by Priestly on the writing of the play and its origins, and the critical reception of the stage production.
Illustrated with 8 full page black and white photographic plates of the original 1939 stage production, which starred Ralph Richardson and featured a musical score by Benjamin Britten.
With a black and white photographic portrait of the playwright tipped in to front endpaper and the front panel of the original dust jacket laid in.
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Harry Potter Series, Complete Deluxe Set - 7 volumes -
J. K. Rowling
1999-2007 - Bloomsbury, London - All First Deluxe Editions, First Printing, in Deluxe Bindings
Harry Potter's award-winning wizarding adventures have had an unrivalled impact in popular culture today; indeed, some experts have referred to adults between the ages of roughly 20-30 years old as 'the Harry Potter generation'.
Presented here is a complete and fine and stunning seven volume set of first printings of the deluxe editions, superior to the trade editions, being larger, with quality cloth and gilt lettered covers, the artwork inlaid to the upper panels, silk bookmarks, and all edges finished in gilt.
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1999-2007 - Bloomsbury, London - All First Deluxe Editions, First Printing, in Deluxe Bindings
Harry Potter's award-winning wizarding adventures have had an unrivalled impact in popular culture today; indeed, some experts have referred to adults between the ages of roughly 20-30 years old as 'the Harry Potter generation'.Presented here is a complete and fine and stunning seven volume set of first printings of the deluxe editions, superior to the trade editions, being larger, with quality cloth and gilt lettered covers, the artwork inlaid to the upper panels, silk bookmarks, and all edges finished in gilt.
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Snowblind: a Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade - Signed -
Robert Sabbag, Damien Hirst (designer)
1998 - Canongate, Edinburgh - First, Signed and Limited to 1, 000
A spectacular presentation, designed and signed by Damien Hirst, as well as the author and the late great Howard Marks who provides the introduction.
A great book, and a typically Hirst’ian creation - removing the slipcase of US$100 notes reveals a silver spine silver edges and reflecting mirrored glass covers, an essential element for this particular subject, nonporous, cool to keep powder dry, and the clear reflective nature making it easier to chop and arrange in lines, but you knew that already... of course on opening the book you find the credit card, on silver silk tie, a book mark, perhaps, but more useful combined with the aforementioned mirror... wait, start reading and you will come to a recess within the pages in which you will discover in a perfectly cut out recess a rolled $100 note... if you need to know what this is for, then perhaps this is not the book for you.
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1998 - Canongate, Edinburgh - First, Signed and Limited to 1, 000
A spectacular presentation, designed and signed by Damien Hirst, as well as the author and the late great Howard Marks who provides the introduction.A great book, and a typically Hirst’ian creation - removing the slipcase of US$100 notes reveals a silver spine silver edges and reflecting mirrored glass covers, an essential element for this particular subject, nonporous, cool to keep powder dry, and the clear reflective nature making it easier to chop and arrange in lines, but you knew that already... of course on opening the book you find the credit card, on silver silk tie, a book mark, perhaps, but more useful combined with the aforementioned mirror... wait, start reading and you will come to a recess within the pages in which you will discover in a perfectly cut out recess a rolled $100 note... if you need to know what this is for, then perhaps this is not the book for you.
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Franny and Zooey -
J.D. Salinger
1961 - Little, Boston - First Edition
A fine first edition of Salinger’s third book. Two stories about the Glass family, which originally appeared in the New Yorker, following on from ‘Raise High the Roof Beam’ [1959].
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1961 - Little, Boston - First Edition
A fine first edition of Salinger’s third book. Two stories about the Glass family, which originally appeared in the New Yorker, following on from ‘Raise High the Roof Beam’ [1959].
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Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour an Introduction -
J.D. Salinger
1959 - Little Brown, Boston - First Edition, First Issue, without the dedication leaf, as called for
‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters’ is written with a dazzling, almost showy, technical brilliance. Its dialogue is expert, its satirical comedy amusing, its style fluid and graceful. There can be no question that J. D. Salinger is a finished literary craftsman. What he sets out to do he does with consummate skill.’ - New York Times
First edition, first state, of this collection of stories about the Glass Family, in beautiful condition, and scarce as such.
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1959 - Little Brown, Boston - First Edition, First Issue, without the dedication leaf, as called for
‘Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters’ is written with a dazzling, almost showy, technical brilliance. Its dialogue is expert, its satirical comedy amusing, its style fluid and graceful. There can be no question that J. D. Salinger is a finished literary craftsman. What he sets out to do he does with consummate skill.’ - New York Times First edition, first state, of this collection of stories about the Glass Family, in beautiful condition, and scarce as such.
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Price HK$ 15,000