Literature
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The Literature of Roguery.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1907. First Edition. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 14cm). Publisher's embossed green cloth, gilt titles to spines, top edges tinted green. Very light rubbing to extremities, signs of label removal to spines. Blind stamp to title page and first page of text of each volume..... More
Chandler Before Marlowe: Raymond Chandler's Early Prose and Poetry, 1908-1912.
Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1973. [Posthumous anthology] LIMITED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.xviii; 110. With a frontispiece of the author. Number 167 of 499 copies. Publisher's red quarter faux leather with gilt titles to spine and mottled cream paper over boards. Matching cream endpapers; all..... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1964. [Modern literature] FIRST US EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.[2]; xii; [2]; 394; [6]. Publisher's blue cloth, white titles to upper and spine. With the pictorial dust-jacket designed by Rob Howard priced at $5.50 to front flap. Light pencil annotations here and there. Gentle wear to..... More
Killer In The Rain. Being: Killer in the Rain; The Man who liked Dogs; The Curtain; Try the Girl; Mandarin's Jade; Bay City Blues; The Lady in the Lake; No Crime in the Mountains. With an Introduction by Philip Durham.
Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1964. [Crime stories] FIRST EDITION (stated). Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.394. Publisher's blue cloth in pictorial dust-wrapper designed by Rob Howard, priced at $5.50. Contents and page edges clean, jacket with a little edgewear and a crease to the spine panel, neat tape reinforcement to..... More
Playback.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1958. [Crime fiction] FIRST UK EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp. 208. Publisher's red cloth in dust jacket priced at 12/6. No inscriptions. Contents clean, one mark to fore-edge, bright jacket is a little rubbed to spine tips, neatly re-touched to reverse side as show..... More
The Black-Eyed Blonde. A Philip Marlowe Novel.
New York, NY: The Mysterious Bookshop / Henry Holt, 2014. [Detective mystery] SIGNED LIMITED EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[xii]; 290; [4]. Limited to 100 copies SIGNED by the author in black ink to limitation page. Publisher's quarter black leatherette with gilt titles to spine and marbled paper over boards..... More
Contributes 'My Monte Carlo System' to Encore; The Sunday Times Book.
London: Michael Joseph, 1962. [Literary Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.488. Publisher's blue cloth with original pictorial dust-jacket priced at 25s. Contents clean, edges toned, no inscriptions, jacket chipped to crown and rear but without the heavy sunning to the red spine often encountered. Very good. Uncommon..... More
Contributes 'My Monte Carlo System' to Encore; The Sunday Times Book.
London: Michael Joseph, 1962. [Literary Anthology] FIRST EDITION. Large Octavo (23 x 16cm), pp.488. Publisher's blue cloth with original pictorial dust-jacket priced at 25s. Contents clean, edges slightly toned, no inscriptions. The jacket is simply exceptional having been protected by a custom-made red cloth outer cover, with gilt titles to..... More
The Clockmaker; or, the Sayings and Doing of Samuel Slick, of Slicksville.
London: Richard Bentley, 1843. [Canadian Humour]. EARLY EDITION, complete in three volumes. Octavo (21 x 13cm), pp.xii; 297 [3]; pp.viii; 325 [3]; pp.iv; 309 [1]. With a series of etched plates by Hervieu, including a frontispiece to each volume. Publisher's purple blind-decorated cloth with gilt titles to spine. Yellow coated..... More
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