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  • The Quiet American  – Graham Greene

    The Quiet American – Graham Greene

    This is the Book Society in conjunction with Heinemann, London issued the same year as the principal first.

    Octavo, 247, aged around page edges, private bookplate on paste down under front jacket flap. Full dust jacket in pretty good condition. All up a good to better copy of a desirable issue.

    Later turned into a classic movie (how many of Green’s novels have not been?) based in Indo-China a striking story of new and old world

    Greene classic – 1955 Edition

    $50.00

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  • Peril on Mars – Patrick Moore

    Peril on Mars – Patrick Moore

    Published by Burke, London a second edition 1961. Octavo, 158 pages. Missing its front free endpaper and with a gift inscription on the title. Dust jacket a little tatty at the top but really quite scarce and a sought after book.

    Patrick Moore, Astronomical Hero had the longest ever running television series “The Sky at Night” – he saw it all – In the late 1950’s he turned his hand to science fiction writing and here we are on his favourite planet Mars.

    Continues the story of Maurice Gray and Bruce Talbot told in “The Voices of Mars” … ten years later the Mars colony has grown from their earlier journey to rescue Dr York. Now on the lonely Mars satellite, Deimos, they receive an unexpected visitor and a desperate SOS from the Lowell Dome … it all gets very interesting and Martian!

    Patrick Moore Rarity

    $40.00

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  • The First 49 Stories – Ernest Hemingway

    The First 49 Stories – Ernest Hemingway

    Published by Jonathan Cape a 1968 edition. Octavo, 414 pages a little fading of the lemon cover near and at the spine. Internally very clean … still a good to very good copy. Protected in Brodart.

    The best introduction to Hemingway. Many favourites including “the short happy life of Francis Macomber”.

    The Way into Hemingway

    $40.00

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  • Elephant Walk  – Robert Standish (Film Edition 1955)

    Elephant Walk – Robert Standish (Film Edition 1955)

    A very good 1955 London edition of this Standish classic a Voyager favourite.

    Published by Peter Davies, octavo, 193 pages with the superb period dust jacket and the wrap around ” Read the Book of the Film” … a treasure to a collector.

    If you have not seen the film then that is a loss that should be reversed … and all the drama with the casting .. which maybe created the unsurpassed on screen tensions.

    Old enough to remember the film?

    $50.00

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  • The Last of Lysandra – Elizabeth Fenwick

    The Last of Lysandra – Elizabeth Fenwick

    A very good Gollancz, yellow jacket thriller. A first of type published 1973. Octavo, 160 pages in very good condition or better.

    More strange characters than “Midsummer Murders” … we are promised a hidden menace lurking behind respectable facades … and we get it.

    Who is lurking behind your façade?

    $25.00

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  • The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway – 1956 Edition

    The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway – 1956 Edition

    Published by Jonathan Cape, London a quite early edition 1956, noting the Nobel Prize win on the front jacket flap.

    Slim octavo, 127 wonderful pages. A very good copy.

    Should be everyone’s favourite short read. Nobel citation – “his powerful style-forming mastery of the art of modern narration, as most lately revealed in his novel The Old Man and the Sea”.

    Nobel Classic by Hemingway.

    $60.00

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