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  • The Thinker after Auguste Rodin – Bookends by Pompeian Bronze – circa 1930

    The Thinker after Auguste Rodin – Bookends by Pompeian Bronze – circa 1930

    A solid, imposing, characterful pair of bookends by Pompeian Bronze, New York. Based on “Le Penseur” by Rodin. A little age, generally in very good condition and the best form of this classic.

    Good practical sized bookends 18 cm high and weighing 2.2 kgs. the pair. Really quite special

    Quality bookends by collected maker

    $340.00

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  • The Wedding Guest Sat on a Stone – Richard Shattuck – First US Edition 1940

    The Wedding Guest Sat on a Stone – Richard Shattuck – First US Edition 1940

    Published by the World Syndicate, New York in 1940. Another that made it into a movie.

    Octavo, 262 pages, pretty good condition.

    A somewhat amusing mystery concerning, amongst a lot of frivolity, numerous attempts to hide a dead body which after one failed attempt in an elevator … disappears.

    The title comes from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, if you understand how that is framed – each chapter here has some context – a bit high-brow really for the genre.

    If you want to hide a dead body this will tell you where not to hide one!

    $50.00

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  • She Shall Have Murder – Delano Ames – First US Edition 1949

    She Shall Have Murder – Delano Ames – First US Edition 1949

    Published by Rinehart, New York in 1949.

    Octavo, 245 pages. The first book in a series of murder mysteries featuring Jane Hamish and Dagobert Brown. Super stuff a plot that would fit today’s take on the classic murder mystery.

    Delano Ames and American, who moved to England and then Spain had huge success with this genre.

    Made into a movie the following year.

    A plot built on a fantasy of a plot.

    $50.00

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  • The Deadly Dowager – Edwin Greenwood – First US Edition 1937

    The Deadly Dowager – Edwin Greenwood – First US Edition 1937

    Published by Doubleday, New York in 1937, first US Edition.

    Octavo, 307 pages, pretty good condition, striking period jacket.

    Watch out for life insurance! As often behind the plot of the Deadly Dowager to restore the family fortunes by killing them off. Unusual murders.

    Watch out for the wet sponge!

    $50.00

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  • Gallows Orchard – Claire Spencer – First Edition 1930

    Gallows Orchard – Claire Spencer – First Edition 1930

    First edition of Gallows Orchard – in or opinion – in the best dust jacket design we have ever seen.

    Published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith. Octavo, 285 pages, a little age, generally very good condition.

    Lucy antagonises a small village in Scotland … she has numerous suitors but in the end the village folk have their way. Murder, marriage and death ….

    This was Scottish born Clair Spencer’s first novel. By this time, she was in the US married to publisher Harrison Smith.

    Approaching 100 years – First edition challenging story

    $70.00

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  • 1600 Years Under the Sea – The Quest for a Sunken City – Captain Ted Falcon-Barker

    1600 Years Under the Sea – The Quest for a Sunken City – Captain Ted Falcon-Barker

    Scarce unusual book. Published by Frederick Muller, London in 1960. Octavo, 225 pages, the odd mark, fading to board edges faded, cocked but excuse it, endpaper maps, better dust jacket than usual.

    Ted Falcon-Baker was a most mysterious figure. Born in France in 1923 to a diamond prospector father and Cuban mother. He skipped school at fifteen and ran away to Australia [people grew up more quickly then!].

    When WII broke out he joined the army and in Europe became a spy, spending time in Damascus. He was still only twenty-one when the war ended. He bought a yacht [after other adventures], learned to dive and set off on the adventure recorded in this book to find Epidarous a legendary submerged city in the Adriatic – they found … along with a few unexploded WWI ordinance.

    Actor Jon Pertwee was one of his backers although commitments meant he makes a brief appearance … all this before Doctor Who.

    Epidarous found by the mysterious and adventurous Falcon-Baker

    $35.00

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