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A Clockwork Orange -
Anthony Burgess
1962 - Heinemann, London - First edition first issue in first state jacket
A bright sharp and thus rare first edition of this "scarifying," controversial novel, and source for Stanley Kubrick's cult film. Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.
'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language' – Daily Telegraph.
'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' – The Times.
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Price HK$ 43,000
1962 - Heinemann, London - First edition first issue in first state jacket
A bright sharp and thus rare first edition of this "scarifying," controversial novel, and source for Stanley Kubrick's cult film. Social prophecy? Black comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.'Not only about man's violent nature and his capacity to choose between good and evil. It is about the excitements and intoxicating effects of language' – Daily Telegraph.
'One of the cleverest and most original writers of his generation' – The Times.
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The Leather Stocking Series - The Deerslayer; The Last of the Mohicans; The Pathfinder or The Inland Sea; The Pioneers or The Sources of the Susquehanna; The Prairie -
James Fenimore Cooper, C. E. Brock (illustrator)
1900 - Macmillan & Co., London - First Brock Illustrated Editions
A finely bound complete set of James Fenimore Cooper’s epic Leather Stocking series, the great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Housed in a bespoke cloth slipcase.
Illustrated throughout by Charles Brock, each volume with twenty-five line drawing plates.
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Price HK$ 14,000
1900 - Macmillan & Co., London - First Brock Illustrated Editions
A finely bound complete set of James Fenimore Cooper’s epic Leather Stocking series, the great saga of American frontiersman Natty Bumppo. Housed in a bespoke cloth slipcase.Illustrated throughout by Charles Brock, each volume with twenty-five line drawing plates.
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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me -
Richard Fariña
1966 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition of ‘the classic novel of the 1960s an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revolt
Fariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering, among other things, mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation.’
‘Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.’ – Thomas Pynchon.
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1966 - Random House, New York - First Edition
First edition of ‘the classic novel of the 1960s an unerring, corrosively comic depiction of a campus in revoltFariña evokes the Sixties as precisely, wittily, and poignantly as F. Scott Fitzgerald captured the Jazz Age. The hero, Gnossus Pappadopoulis, weaves his way through the psychedelic landscape, encountering, among other things, mescaline, women, art, gluttony, falsehood, science, prayer, and, occasionally, truth. A portrait of an explosive decade, sparkling with inventive writing and conveying the essence of a generation.’
‘Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful, and outrageous all at the same time.’ – Thomas Pynchon.
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Taps at Reveille -
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1935 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First Edition, first state, in first state dust jacket
A bright, brilliant jacketed first edition of Fitzgerald’s collection of eighteen short stories, the last to be published during his lifetime.
This important collection, which Fitzgerald considered his best, includes the much anthologized story ‘Babylon Revisited’ – ‘one of the finest short stories in the English language... at once timeless and startlingly modern’ according to The Telegraph. Set in Paris during the late 1920s, ‘Babylon Revisited’ clearly chimes with Fitzgerald’s own life: the extravagant dissipation of life during the boom years, a wife lost to illness, and a fortune frittered away – painting an exquisite and intensely personal portrait of a man who has squandered his life.
‘A farewell to the Jazz Age... its setting is Paris, and its tone one of anguish for past follies’ – The New York Times
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1935 - Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York - First Edition, first state, in first state dust jacket
A bright, brilliant jacketed first edition of Fitzgerald’s collection of eighteen short stories, the last to be published during his lifetime. This important collection, which Fitzgerald considered his best, includes the much anthologized story ‘Babylon Revisited’ – ‘one of the finest short stories in the English language... at once timeless and startlingly modern’ according to The Telegraph. Set in Paris during the late 1920s, ‘Babylon Revisited’ clearly chimes with Fitzgerald’s own life: the extravagant dissipation of life during the boom years, a wife lost to illness, and a fortune frittered away – painting an exquisite and intensely personal portrait of a man who has squandered his life.
‘A farewell to the Jazz Age... its setting is Paris, and its tone one of anguish for past follies’ – The New York Times
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Tender is the Night. A Romance -
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sam Taylor-Wood (photographer)
2006 - Penguin Books, London - Limited edition number 270 of 1, 000 copies
‘You're the only girl I've seen for a very long time that actually did look like something blooming.’
Published on the occasion of Penguin Book's 60th Anniversary, ‘Tender Is The Night: A Romance’ is one of five classics that the publisher issued in a Limited Edition by commissioning five of the world's most important artists in their respective fields.
Taylor Wood, who many consider to be the natural successor to Avedon and Annie Leibovitz, utilizes one of her most austerely beautiful photographs on glassine paper that serves as the Artist Book's translucent inner dust-jacket. ‘An elegant young man as he stands before us with his hands in his pocket and bare feet. He perfectly sums up the elegance and fragility of Nicole and Dick Driver's world’.
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2006 - Penguin Books, London - Limited edition number 270 of 1, 000 copies
‘You're the only girl I've seen for a very long time that actually did look like something blooming.’Published on the occasion of Penguin Book's 60th Anniversary, ‘Tender Is The Night: A Romance’ is one of five classics that the publisher issued in a Limited Edition by commissioning five of the world's most important artists in their respective fields.
Taylor Wood, who many consider to be the natural successor to Avedon and Annie Leibovitz, utilizes one of her most austerely beautiful photographs on glassine paper that serves as the Artist Book's translucent inner dust-jacket. ‘An elegant young man as he stands before us with his hands in his pocket and bare feet. He perfectly sums up the elegance and fragility of Nicole and Dick Driver's world’.
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The Hoods -
Harry Grey (Pseud. Herschel Goldberg)
1952 - Crown Publishers, New York - First Edition
A rare first edition in unfaded dust jacket. The first novel by Harry Grey (Herschel Goldberg) later to become Sergio Leone’s epic ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ (1984) starring Robert DeNiro loosely playing Harry's life as David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson.
A partly autobiographical account of Goldberg, a Ukrainian born Jewish gangster in New York's Lower East Side between 1910 and 1933, legend has it that this was written whilst incarcerated in the notorious Sing-Sing prison, using the pseudonym Harry Grey to protect his family.
Housed in a bespoke black clamshell case with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt.
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1952 - Crown Publishers, New York - First Edition
A rare first edition in unfaded dust jacket. The first novel by Harry Grey (Herschel Goldberg) later to become Sergio Leone’s epic ‘Once Upon a Time in America’ (1984) starring Robert DeNiro loosely playing Harry's life as David ‘Noodles’ Aaronson.A partly autobiographical account of Goldberg, a Ukrainian born Jewish gangster in New York's Lower East Side between 1910 and 1933, legend has it that this was written whilst incarcerated in the notorious Sing-Sing prison, using the pseudonym Harry Grey to protect his family.
Housed in a bespoke black clamshell case with red morocco spine label lettered in gilt.
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Darkey Ditties. Poems. -
Elliott B. Henderson
1915 - Self Published, Columbus - First Edition
Elliott Blaine Henderson’s ninth collection of African-American poetry.
Amongst the poems are such titles as ‘Cispus Attucks’, ‘De Bes’ State in de Lan’’, ‘A Plantation “Step-erbout”’, ‘Some Negro Characteristics’; ‘A Retrospection’, and ‘Sich an Itchin’ in Mah Shin’.
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1915 - Self Published, Columbus - First Edition
Elliott Blaine Henderson’s ninth collection of African-American poetry.Amongst the poems are such titles as ‘Cispus Attucks’, ‘De Bes’ State in de Lan’’, ‘A Plantation “Step-erbout”’, ‘Some Negro Characteristics’; ‘A Retrospection’, and ‘Sich an Itchin’ in Mah Shin’.
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The Outsiders -
Susan Eloise Hinton
1967 - The Viking Press, New York - First Edition
‘Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.’
A superior example of the rare first edition of S.E. Hinton's first book, written while she was 16 and still in high school. Set in Oklahoma in the 1960s, the book was inspired by two rival gangs at her high school, the Greasers and the Socs; it was the basis for the 1983 cult film directed by Francis Ford Coppola which included a number of then unknown actors such as Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Diane Lane.
The dust jacket without chips, tears, or fading to the spine where the colours are still bright red, as they should be.
‘The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world.’ – The New York Times.
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Price HK$ 35,000
1967 - The Viking Press, New York - First Edition
‘Stay gold, Ponyboy, stay gold.’A superior example of the rare first edition of S.E. Hinton's first book, written while she was 16 and still in high school. Set in Oklahoma in the 1960s, the book was inspired by two rival gangs at her high school, the Greasers and the Socs; it was the basis for the 1983 cult film directed by Francis Ford Coppola which included a number of then unknown actors such as Matt Dillon, Patrick Swayze, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, Tom Cruise, and Diane Lane.
The dust jacket without chips, tears, or fading to the spine where the colours are still bright red, as they should be.
‘The Outsiders transformed young-adult fiction from a genre mostly about prom queens, football players and high school crushes to one that portrayed a darker, truer world.’ – The New York Times.
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Price HK$ 35,000