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The Desert Flyer -
John Bolton
1936 - Wright & Brown, London - First Edition
A thrilling “Story of the Air” in Egypt!
A scarce between the wars Air Mystery.
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Price HK$ 800
1936 - Wright & Brown, London - First Edition
A thrilling “Story of the Air” in Egypt!A scarce between the wars Air Mystery.
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Price HK$ 800
Guard of Honor -
James Gould Cozzens
1948 - Harcourt, New York - First Edition
A fine copy in near fine scarce first issue dust jacket, price clipped, but with no mention of the Pulitzer Prize to front flap, no quotes from reviews of Guard of Honor and no BOMC stamps present on book or jacket.
‘Guard of Honor’ won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days in September 1943 to a racial incident on a U.S. Army airbase in Florida. The reader is acutely aware of the war raging abroad and the effect it has had, or will have, on the multitude of servicemen who populate Cozzens's immense canvas.
‘No other American novelist of our time writes with such profound understanding of the wellsprings of human character and of the social pressures that help to form it’. - The New York Times.
‘Every page of ‘Guard of Honor’ gives the impression of a writer at the very top of his powers setting out to accomplish nothing less than his masterwork.’ - The New Yorker.
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Price HK$ 3,000
1948 - Harcourt, New York - First Edition
A fine copy in near fine scarce first issue dust jacket, price clipped, but with no mention of the Pulitzer Prize to front flap, no quotes from reviews of Guard of Honor and no BOMC stamps present on book or jacket.‘Guard of Honor’ won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days in September 1943 to a racial incident on a U.S. Army airbase in Florida. The reader is acutely aware of the war raging abroad and the effect it has had, or will have, on the multitude of servicemen who populate Cozzens's immense canvas.
‘No other American novelist of our time writes with such profound understanding of the wellsprings of human character and of the social pressures that help to form it’. - The New York Times.
‘Every page of ‘Guard of Honor’ gives the impression of a writer at the very top of his powers setting out to accomplish nothing less than his masterwork.’ - The New Yorker.
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Price HK$ 3,000
Listen! The Wind -
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
1939 - Harcourt, New York - First Edition
A lovely copy – in its striking original dust jacket – of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s beautifully written account of her and her husband’s 1933 flight in their single-engine Lockheed ‘Sirius’ from Africa to South America, as they survey 30,000 miles of coastal aviation routes across the Atlantic Ocean.
With a foreword, and map drawings by Charles Lindbergh.
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Price HK$ 2,800
1939 - Harcourt, New York - First Edition
A lovely copy – in its striking original dust jacket – of Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s beautifully written account of her and her husband’s 1933 flight in their single-engine Lockheed ‘Sirius’ from Africa to South America, as they survey 30,000 miles of coastal aviation routes across the Atlantic Ocean.With a foreword, and map drawings by Charles Lindbergh.
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Price HK$ 2,800
The Sky Bandits -
George G. Rochester
1938 - The Ace Publishing Co., London - First Edition
‘As he thundered down on Sarat’s tail his gun snarled a staccato accompaniment to the roar of his powerful engine!’
Irresistible with chapter headings like ‘A Perilous Business’; ‘The Secret of the U-Boat’, and ‘A Big Job!’.
Rare in the dust jacket, particularly so in this condition, bright and sharp, without large chips or holes from former combat missions.
With four full page black and white illustrations.
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Price HK$ 3,400
1938 - The Ace Publishing Co., London - First Edition
‘As he thundered down on Sarat’s tail his gun snarled a staccato accompaniment to the roar of his powerful engine!’Irresistible with chapter headings like ‘A Perilous Business’; ‘The Secret of the U-Boat’, and ‘A Big Job!’.
Rare in the dust jacket, particularly so in this condition, bright and sharp, without large chips or holes from former combat missions.
With four full page black and white illustrations.
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Price HK$ 3,400