New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. Revised Edition. An elusive edition of Fitzgerald's fourth novel, a completely re-set edition incorporating the author's final version of the text, as well as the first appearance of Malcolm Cowley's powerful introduction. Bruccoli notes the first and second states totalled 5,075 copies, though the..... More
London: Scribners, 1990. First Edition. First Impression. Tall quarto (33cm); pictorial card wrappers with French flaps; [8],9-93,[3]pp; illus. A Fine copy of this richly-illustrated volume, documenting the filming and production of Bertolucci's adaptation of Bowles's first novel. Contents include a foreword and contributions by Bowles, various essays, and interviews. A...... More
New York: Photo Researchers, Inc., [1962]. Striking photographic portrait of Ursula Andress in her role as Bond girl Honey Ryder in the 1962 film Dr. No. Taken by American photographer Bradley Smith (1910-1997) on location in Jamaica, where shooting took place near Ian Fleming's Goldeneye estate and in the small..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1953. First Edition. Attractive copy of the first James Bond novel, introducing 007, M, Vesper Lynd, and criminal mastermind Le Chiffre. Basis for Martin Campbell's 2006 film adaptation, starring Daniel Craig, Eva Green, and Judi Dench. Gilbert A1a (1.2); Pronzini & Muller, p.252; Hubin, p.144. First Impression..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1963. First American Edition. Le Carré's second novel, the only one of his novels placing George Smiley in a setting outside the espionage community. Basis for Gavin Millar's 1991 film of the same name, starring Denholm Elliott, Glenda Jackson, and a young Christian Bale. Hubin..... More
New York: Walker and Company, 1962. First American Edition. Le Carré's debut novel, which introduced the world to master spy George Smiley. Basis for Sidney Lumet's 1967 neo noir The Deadly Affair, starring James Mason, Simone Signoret, and Maximilian Schell. Hubin, p.243; Barzun & Taylor 2141. First Printing. Octavo (20.75cm);..... More
New York: Coward-McCann, Inc., 1964. First American Edition. Le Carré's third and best-known novel, one that changed the direction of modern espionage fiction. The novel is "not so much concerned with the machinations of espionage as with the machinations of the minds of those in the profession; not so much..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1936. First Edition. Greene's seventh novel, published in the UK under the title A Gun for Sale. "A hired gunman (English underprivileged youth) murders a socialist minister on the Continent and almost plunges Europe into war. Insp. Mather trails him, but M.'s own..... More
London: Arthur Barker Ltd., 1934. First U.K. Edition. Hammett's fifth and final novel, a commercial success upon publication, selling more than 30,000 copies within a few months of its release on 8 January, 1934. The UK edition followed Knopf's four months later, with portions of the text revised by Hammett..... More
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1926. First Edition. Biggers's second Charlie Chan novel, in which a string of pearls holds the key to the death of a mysterious millionaire. Chan travels from Hawaii to California and goes undercover in the desert to find the answer to a clue spoken in Chinese..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Le Carré's third and best-known novel, one that changed the direction of modern espionage fiction. The novel is "not so much concerned with the machinations of espionage as with the machinations of the minds of those in the profession; not so much what..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1942. First Edition. Chandler's third novel, set largely in Pasadena, with a complex plot involving counterfeiting, blackmail, and the theft of a rare and valuable American coin. Basis for John Brahm's 1947 film noir The Brasher Doubloon, starring Nancy Guild, Conrad Janis, Roy Roberts, Fritz..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913. First American Edition. Sharp copy of the fifth novel in Maurice LeBlanc's series featuring gentleman burglar Arsène Lupin, first serialized in Le Journal as Le Bouchon de Cristal (1912). "Arsène Lupin is baffled at every turn by a bestial député who commits..... More
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. First Edition. A novel of obsessive love and murder, "presented as a case history of a psychiatric patient under observation at the Willetstown State Hospital during the three months before his trial" (The Dark Page, Vol.2, pp.34-35). A Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone title, and basis..... More
New York: The H.K. Fly Company Publishers, 1919. First Edition. Collection of Boyle's Boston Blackie stories, first published in Redbook, Cosmopolitan, and American magazine, which he cobbled together and revised slightly to resemble a novel. His stories, featuring the explots of this gentleman safecracker, were wildly popular in their time..... More
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London & Boston: Faber & Faber / Little, Brown and Company, 1939. First Edition. A novel of psychological suspense in which a man suspected of murder poses as a struggling writer, and tries to charm a young secretary and her family into assisting him. Jilted by the suspect, the secretary..... More