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Sierra Leone. A Modern Portrait.
London: HMSO, 1954. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (22 x 15cm). Hardback in pictorial wrapper. With colour frontispiece, fold-out colour map to rear, numerous photographic plates, illustrated endpapers. Slightly dusty and a trifle handled, jacket chipped at extremities; very good. An important source book used by James Bond author Ian Fleming... More
The Big Sleep.
London: Hamish Hamilton, 1939. FIRST UK EDITION. Octavo, pp.302. Publisher's black cloth with red titles and trim. Edges a little toned, joints a touch rubbed. A clean, near fine example. The author's first book, introducing Philip Marlowe; cool, sharp, handsome - and bitterly alone. A Haycraft-Queen cornerstone. Chandler's writing was... More
The Sins of Sumuru.
London: Herbert Jenkins, 1952. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp.224. In publisher's bright red cloth titled and trimmed in in black, with original illustrated dust-jacket. A lovely fine copy in a lightly used, price-clipped wrapper. One of Mr. Rohmer's increasingly elusive (but always cool) Sumuru titles, featuring the female equivalent of Fu... More
News From Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir.
London: Jonathan Cape, 1936. [Travel] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 14cm), pp.384. Lavishly illustrated with photographs, fold-out map. Publisher's red cloth, with "Fu Lei-Ming" in gilt to front board, gilt titles to spine; top edge stained red, bottom edge untrimmed. Edges and covers dusty, single mark to fore-edge. A very... More
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