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![[Complete detective novels:] Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man.](https://d3dzzbbvj9im7s.cloudfront.net/media/catalog/product/cache/ae0834d12b7cf129fc73bcc000ea526a/1/1/116919.jpg)
HAMMETT, Dashiell. [Complete detective novels:] Red Harvest; The Dain Curse; The Maltese Falcon; The Glass Key; The Thin Man.New York & London : 1929-34
First editions, first printings, of the complete series of Hammett's seminal full-length detective novels. As usual The Glass Key is the first American edition; the first impression was printed in London in the same year during Knopf's ill-fated attempt to break into the British market and is scarce. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 116919
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FROST, Robert. A Boy's Will.London : 1913
First edition of Frost's first published book, inscribed by Frost on the blank facing the first printed poem with the then-unpublished 12-line poem "The Same Leaves" written out, signed, and addressed "For Martha Shanner, July 1927". Frost has also signed both the front cover and the title page, both retrospectively dated May 1913. The copy is accompanied... Learn More£8,500.00Stock Code: 122696
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BLOCH, Robert. Psycho.New York : 1959
First edition, first printing. The work was the basis for Hitchcock's seminal film of the same title, released a year after the book was published. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 101725
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender is the Night.New York : 1934
First edition, first printing, first issue dust jacket, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. This is a superb copy of Fitzgerald's magnificent yet maligned follow-up to The Great Gatsby. It is one of 19 copies specially signed by the author for the booksellers Hochschild, Kohn & Co. of Baltimore, with their ticket on the rear pastedown.... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 136034
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. This Side of Paradise.New York : 1920
The "Author's Apology" edition, signed by the author; first edition, third printing, prepared for distribution to American Booksellers Association, with a tipped-in leaf entitled "Author's Apology" signed by Fitzgerald, "Sincerely, Scott Fitzgerald". Issued the same month as the first, the third printing included an unknown number of copies prepared... Learn More£9,750.00Stock Code: 111821
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad Young Men.1926
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 62672
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WEST, Nathaniel. The Complete Works.1957
First UK edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 65670
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O'CONNOR, Flannery. Wise Blood.New York : 1952
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 109887
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All the Sad Young Men.New York : 1926
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 46292
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TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.London : 1876
First edition, published on 9 June, thus preceding the first American edition that appeared in mid-December by some six months. Twain chose to have the book published first in London to ensure copyright and perhaps also because he was more highly esteemed in Britain than at home.
"The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense... Learn More£30,000.00Stock Code: 134119
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FAULKNER, William. The Town.New York : 1957
First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Ruth Ford from Bill Faulkner (See what you can do with this) Oxford 9 October 1959". Ford was an actress and model who had been a long-time family friend of Faulkner. She said of him, "one of the nicest people in Hollywood is William Faulkner, who I had... Learn More£15,000.00Stock Code: 124320
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees.New York : 1950
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 68482
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HEINLEIN, Robert A. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.New York : 1966
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Polly, with love, Bob", additionally signed by the author above his printed name on the title page. The recipient is believed to by Polly Freas, wife of Frank Kelly Freas, the illustrator to Heinlein's The Door into Summer (1957). Polly was one... Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 131839
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LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.London : 1960
First UK edition, first impression. First published in the US earlier the same year, To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is "an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 132534
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Winner Take Nothing.New York : 1933
First edition, first printing. This collection contains 14 short stories, of which six ("The Light of the World", "A Way You'll Never Be", "The Mother of a Queen", "One Reader Writes", "A Day's Wait", and "Fathers and Sons") were printed here for the first time. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 62073
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Sun Also Rises.New York : 1926
First edition, first printing, the first issue with the misprints "stoppped" on p. 181, l. 26, "down-staris" on p. 169, line 34, and the third book being designated as "BOOK THREE" instead of "BOOK III" (p. 235), with the first issue dust jacket, incorrectly citing Hemingway's earlier title as In Our Times.
Hemingway's second novel is a roman... Learn More£65,000.00Stock Code: 118495
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. Green Hills of Africa.New York : 1935
First edition, first printing. His second major venture into non-fiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 77576
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TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.Hartford : 1876
First US edition, first printing, printed on wove paper, versos of half-title and preface blank. "The irresponsibility, the love of odd adventure, and the sense of natural justice as opposed to the village code, which characterize the heroes of this book and its sequel Huckleberry Finn, presented a sharp contrast to the Sunday School or rags-to-riches... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 132079
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FITZGERALD, F. Scott. All The Sad Young Men.1926
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 41770
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CHANDLER, Raymond. Complete set of the Philip Marlowe novels.New York / London : 1938-58
All first editions, first printings. Chandler's first four novels were first published in America; the last three appeared first in the UK. Learn More£12,500.00Stock Code: 106986
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HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories.New York : 1938
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper, "To Cuyler Stevens with all good luck Ernest Hemingway", with Cuyler Stevens's bookplate to the front pastedown. Hemingway is known to have inscribed copies of several of his books to Ralph Cuyler Stevens (1903-1965), including Winner Take Nothing (the... Learn More£18,750.00Stock Code: 121928
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DICK, Philip K. A significant archive of correspondence from the collection of his third wife and biographer Anne Williams Rubinstein Dick.Los Angeles, CA, and elsewhere : c.1965-91
Philip K. Dick was married to his third wife Anne Williams Rubinstein from 1 April 1959 to October 1965. Long after their divorce, in mid-1973, Anne burned most of their earlier correspondence, but they renewed contact in December 1973. The ultimate fruit of this was her biography, Search for Philip K. Dick, 1928-1982; A Memoir and Biography of the... Learn More£17,500.00Stock Code: 97282
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THOMPSON, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.New York : 1971
First edition in book form, first printing. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was first published in November 1971 as a two part series in Rolling Stone magazine, for which Thompson wrote until his death in 2005. It was adapted into a film of the same name by Terry Gilliam in 1998, featuring Johnny Depp and Benicio del Toro in the lead roles. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 77905
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MAUGHAM, W. Somerset. Of Human Bondage.New York : 1936
First illustrated edition, signed limited issue, number 483 of 751 copies signed by both author and artist. Of Human Bondage was first published in 1915 and Maugham contributed a new foreword for this handsome illustrated edition. Randolph Schwabe (1885-1948) "was a draughtsmen, painter and etcher who was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at University... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 117173
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JAMES, Henry. Daisy Miller: A Study.London : 1879
First UK edition of one of James's scarcest and most desirable titles, one of 500 copies. The first two impressions are indistinguishable: it was first published on 15 February 1879 in a print run of 250 copies, with a second impression of 250 copies following in March, lacking any imprint to distinguish it from the first issue. Rare, with just two... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 125130
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FAULKNER, William. Sartoris.London : 1932
First UK edition, first impression, second binding but with the third state ads at the end, and with an example of the remainder dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the title page, "William Faulkner for Else 11 Dec 1950". Signed and dated (1937) on the front free endpaper by the writer and journalist Thorsten Jonsson (1910-1950).... Learn More£10,000.00Stock Code: 67135
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MELVILLE, Herman. White Jacket; or, the World in a Man-of-War.London : 1850
First edition, first issue, of Melville's emblematic fifth novel, which did much to influence the congressional prohibition of naval flogging in September 1850. Copies of the first issue are notably rare in any state, and exceptionally so with the original cloth in such a fine state of preservation.
The British edition, preceding its American... Learn More£60,000.00Stock Code: 138349
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WHITMAN, Walt. Leaves of Grass.Brooklyn : 1855
First edition of one of the central works of American poetry. Much has been written of the significance of this first edition"America's second Declaration of Independence" to quote PMM. "The slender volume introduced the poet who, celebrating the nation by celebrating himself, has since remained at the heart of America's cultural memory because in the... Learn More£60,000.00Stock Code: 135889
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THOREAU, Henry D. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.Boston and Cambridge : 1849
First edition of Thoreau's first book. Thoreau published at his own expense an edition of 1,000 copies: less than 300 sold, and in 1853 the remainder was returned to him - 256 bound up and 450 in sheets - prompting his rueful journal entry: "I have now a library of nearly 900 volumes, over 700 of which I wrote myself."
The present copy has the... Learn More£9,500.00Stock Code: 52313
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McCOY, Horace. They Shoot Horses, Don't They?New York : 1935
First edition, first printing. McCoy's first book, "an impressive depiction of the dark underside of Hollywood during the depression, exposing a milieu that undermined human dignity and destroyed dreams of success" (American National Biography). It was the basis of the 1969 film by Sydney Pollack starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin and Gig Young. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 61986
