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The Magician – Georges Simenon – First English Edition

Published by Hamish Hamilton, London a first English edition 1974. Translated from the French by Helen Sebba.

Octavo, 188 pages all in pretty good condition.

The conjurer liked a drink in the Montmartre after his show. He overindulged and caused issues in his marriage. Their relationship continued with quiet intimacy … until ill health changed all that …

Simenon at his most poignant

$30.00

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Three Beds in Manhattan – Georges Simenon – First English Edition

Published by Hamish Hamilton London, a first English edition 1976. Translated from the French by Lawrence G. Blochman.

Octavo, 186 pages, fine dust jacket, all in super condition.

Two lonely people meet in Greenwich Village and a night filled with drink propels them into intimacy but they may be too afraid to believe a new life might have begun. Reality that is Simenon.

The sensitive side of Simenon

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Mary Anne – Daphne du Maurier – First Australian edition 1954

Published by Angus and Robertson, Sydney 1954. Octavo, 389 pages. A little ageing and some minor dust jacket edge chips. Still a very good copy.

First Australian edition of the novel about her great-great-grandmother Mary Anne Clarke (1776-1852) who led a most interesting life.

She was the mistress of Prince Frederick, Duke of York Commander in Chief … seemingly she liked her men to be well heeled.

Extravagant Mary Anne was in the family

$35.00

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Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier – 1947 Edition

Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca one of the greatest romantic novels of all time … a young bride is thrust into the house of the dead former wife.

First published in 1938 by Gollancz. This is the 1947 edition 31st impression of a book that has to run to hundreds editions and impressions.

Octavo, 302 pages, in the iconic Gollancz yellow jacket. Previous owners name and address on the front free end paper, a little age to the jacket, otherwise a very good copy and a “relatively” early edition.

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again”

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Jamaica Inn – Daphne Du Maurier – 1939 Edition

Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn vies with Rebecca as her best work… this “First Cheap Edition” has become iconic.

Jamaica Inn was first published in 1936 … this is effectively the eight edition (many more to come) of April 1939.

Octavo, 351 pages, with the publisher Gollancz’s iconic yellow jacket, with the bold Spectator review ‘I do not believe that Stevenson would have been ashamed to have written it”. Jacket chipped and page edges foxed otherwise a perfectly acceptable early Jamaica Inn.

If you are in that beautiful part of England make sure you visit Jamaica Inn and read the book. Daphne gives us a useful introductory note … “Jamaica Inn stands to-day, hospitable and kindly, a temperance house on the twenty-mile road between Bodmin and Launceston” … you can get a nice drop there now and a heavy lunch!

“It was a cold grey day in November …”

$50.00

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The Human Factor – Graham Greene – Australian First Edition

A first Australian edition published by The Bodley Head in Australia, Sydney in 1978.

Octavo, 339 pages top edge stained lilac as required. Very good if not better condition with a super dust jacket.

Graham Green himself an ex spy back in the world of spies. “Out of reality are our tales of imagination fashioned” – superb Greene. A leak has occurred in SIS and a suspicions and tensions build. Among a number of characters, Maurice Castle, dull but brilliant enjoys sausages for lunch at Voyager Bill’s favourite pub … must be smarter than they think!

Australian First Greene out Spying.

$40.00

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