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THE SECRET AGENT. A Simple Tale
de Conrad, Joseph
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- 1907
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1907. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. Original light blue-grey cloth decorated in orange, white and black.
First American Edition of Conrad's great novel of espionage (filmed by Alfred Hitchcock as "Sabotage"). The American edition has over a hundred variations in text from the English edition, since Methuen sent early uncorrected proofs to Harper as copytext.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES. Another Adventure of Sherlock Holmes
de Doyle, A. Conan
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- 1902
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1902. London: George Newnes, 1902. Original red cloth decorated in gilt and black.
First Edition of Doyle's famous full-length Sherlock Holmes novel, with 15 full-page plates by Sidney Paget -- a tale Doyle himself termed "a real creeper." This was the first Sherlockian tale since Doyle had apparently killed Holmes off in "The Final Problem" of late 1893.… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT, and other Stories
de Verne, Jules
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- 1874
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EUR 1,362.28
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1874. With Numerous Illustrations. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1874. Original deep red pebble-grain cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, board edges beveled, all page edges gilt.
First English Edition (and first fully-illustrated edition in the English language) of these four tales, three of which are among Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" (appeared… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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DR NO
de Fleming, Ian
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- 1958
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1958. London: Jonathan Cape, (1958). Original black cloth (with silhouette of dancing woman in dark brown) lettered in silver, with dust jacket.
First Edition of the sixth James Bond thriller -- in which Bond travels to a fictional Caribbean island to investigate the disappearance of two MI6 agents. This was the first 007 book to be filmed (in… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE SCANDAL OF FATHER BROWN
de Chesterton, G.K.
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- 1935
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1935. London...: Cassell and Company, (1935). Original dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt, with dust jacket.
First Edition of this collection of eight cases solved by Father Brown, the diminutive Roman Catholic priest / amateur detective. This was the fifth and last collection of Father Brown cases, preceded by THE INNOCENCE OF FATHER BROWN (1911), THE… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS
de Buchan, John
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- 1915
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EUR 1,644.12
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1915. [in light brown boards] Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1915. 2 pp undated ads. Original light brown paper-covered boards with yapped edges, printed in black.
First (Colonial) Edition of Buchan's best-known book, the classic mystery that has withstood the test of time both as a book and as a film. It features a British mining… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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UNDER WESTERN EYES. A Novel
de Conrad, Joseph
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- 1911
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EUR 258.36
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1911. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1911. Original dark blue cloth.
First American Edition of this tale of revolutionaries in czarist Russia, centered about the double-agent Razumov. Harper declined to handle the serialization "because their magazine circulated in Russia and they feared it would cause a breach in their good relations with that country" [Cagle]. This… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE MOONSTONE. A Novel
de Collins, Wilkie
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- 1868
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EUR 634.16
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1868. With Many Illustrations. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 2 pp preliminary undated ads. Original purple-brown cloth.
First American (and first illustrated) Edition of this classic of detective fiction, issued in the same year as the London three-decker. THE MOONSTONE marked the end of Collins's peak period as a novelist: it was preceded by THE WOMAN IN… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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A ROGUE'S TRAGEDY
de Capes, Bernard
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- 1906
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EUR 164.41
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1906. London: Methuen & Co., (1906). 40 pp ads dated July 1906 (plus two loosely-inserted Methuen ad slips). Original bright red cloth stamped in gilt.
First Edition by this prolific (and at the time very popular) author of many novels, often with elements of the supernatural and mystery -- such as OUR LADY OF DARKNESS, THE SECRET IN… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE MARK OF CAIN
de Lang, Andrew
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- 1886
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EUR 234.88
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1886. Authorized Edition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1886. 2 pp undated ads. Original yellow wrappers printed in black.
First American Edition of this mystery by the noted Scottish novelist, poet and literary critic -- perhaps now best known for the twelve "Fairy Books" for children (1889-1910) that he adapted and edited. Lang's THE MARK OF CAIN is… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
de Dickens, Charles
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- 1870
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1870. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1870. 2 pp preliminary ads plus 4+4 pp terminal ads dated Oct 1870. Original yellow-brown pictorial wrappers.
Early (second) American edition, published in late September, about three weeks after Fields Osgood's edition -- and about three months after Dickens's death in June left this tale unfinished. The front cover illustration, the same… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
de Buchan, John
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- 1936
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EUR 187.90
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1936. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1936). Original green cloth, with dust jacket.
First British Edition, published two days after the American edition which was titled THE MAN FROM THE NORLANDS. This was the fifth and last of Buchan's Richard Hannay mysteries, following THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS (1915), GREENMANTLE (1916), MR STANDFAST (1919) and THE THREE HOSTAGES (1924). (It is… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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CASTLE GAY
de Buchan, John
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- 1930
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1930. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1930. Original green cloth, with dust jacket.
First Edition of this tale of mystery and adventure, published a month before the American. As Buchan points out in a brief prefatory note, this tale contains further exploits of Dickson McCunn and several other characters whom he had introduced in HUNTINGTOWER (1922); there would be… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS
de Buchan, John
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- 1935
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1935. London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1935). Original green cloth, with dust jacket.
First English Edition, published two days after the American. This is the third and last mystery featuring Dickson McCunn (the two previous ones had been HUNTINGTOWER (1922) and CASTLE GAY (1930). This suspenseful tale takes place in the imaginary European nation of Evallonia; McCunn encounters (among… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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CAESAR CASCABEL
de Verne, Jules
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- 1890
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EUR 1,550.18
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1890. Translated from the French by A. Estoclet. Illustrated by George Roux. New York: Cassell Publishing Company, n.d. [1890]. Original light blue cloth pictorially decorated in black.
First American Edition (also the first edition in English). Quoting from a contemporary review (cited in T&M) -- Like most of M. Jules Verne's books, it is the story of a… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO
de Hope, Anthony [pseudonym of Anthony Hope Hawkins]
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- 1895
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EUR 93.95
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1895. With Photogravure Frontispiece by S. W. van Schaick. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1895. 12 pp undated ads. Original dark blue cloth decorated in silver and gilt.
First American Edition of this collection of eight loosely-connected tales of adventure ("Count Antonio and the Wizard's Drug," "Count Antonio and the Sacred Bones," etc.). This American Edition is… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE TRIBULATIONS OF A CHINAMAN
de Verne, Jules
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- 1881
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EUR 728.11
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1881. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Illustrated by L. Benett. New York: E.P. Dutton and Company, 1881. One page undated ads (priced in sterling). Original bright red cloth decorated in black and gilt.
First Illustrated American Edition (also the first to be issued in a decorative cloth binding) of one of Verne's odder tales... Wealthy Chinaman hears that… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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DR. OX'S EXPERIMENT, and other Stories
de Verne, Jules
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- 1875
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EUR 1,832.02
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1875. With Numerous Illustrations. Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1875. Original terra-cotta cloth pictorially decorated in black and gilt, beveled.
First American fully-illustrated edition, from the sheets of the first British edition. These four tales include three that are among Jules Verne's earliest: "A Drama in the Air" (appeared in a periodical in 1851, his second story),… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE MAULEVERER MURDERS
de Fox-Davies, A. C.
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- 1907
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EUR 140.92
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1907. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head / New York: John Lane Company, 1907. 2 pp undated ads. Original green-grey cloth pictorially decorated in black.
First Edition of this "motorised detective story" [Quayle]. All of Colonel Mauleverer's sons are being murdered, each a month apart, and each left with a noose around his neck (though not the cause… Saber más sobre este artículo Precio
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THE CHRONICLES OF COUNT ANTONIO
de Hope, Anthony [pseudonym of Anthony Hope Hawkins]
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- 1895
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EUR 126.83
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1895. London: Methuen and Co., 1895. 32 pp ads dated Sept 1895. Original blue-grey cloth.
First Edition of this collection of eight loosely-connected tales of adventure ("Count Antonio and the Wizard's Drug," "Count Antonio and the Sacred Bones," etc.). This is a fine copy (corners slightly bumped), with the cover gilt unusually bright. NCBEL III 1058. Precio
EUR 126.83