![LOSER TAKES ALL [inscribed copy]. Graham Greene](/pictures/thumb/14535.JPG?v=1593711122)
London: William Heinemann Ltd, (1955). Original dark blue cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novella about a man who devises a scheme to win big at Monte Carlo -- but his obsession causes him to lose his girl (whom he planned to marry there) in.....
With Illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905. 4 pp undated ads. Original black cloth decorated in white, red and yellow. First American Edition of the third collection of adventures of Raffles, the gentleman crook. The first two collections had been THE AMATEUR CRACKSMAN of 1898 and.....
London: Hodder & Stoughton, (1933). Original light blue cloth, in dust jacket. First Edition. Baroness Orczy wrote a total of 18 titles featuring Sir Percy Blakeney, aka the masked Scarlet Pimpernel, during the Reign of Terror in France -- published over the years 1905-1940. This was the tenth title published.....
London: Cassell and Company, (1924). Original medium-red cloth lettered in black, with (slightly later) pictorial dust jacket. First Edition. Of the eighteen "Scarlet Pimpernel" titles written by Baroness "Emmuska" Orczy, this was about in the middle in order of publication (from THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL in 1905 to MAM'ZELLE GUILLOTINE in.....
London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d. [1922]. Original red cloth pictorially decorated in black. First Edition of this tale about Sir Percy Blakeney aka The Scarlet Pimpernel that takes place in 1794, during the Reign of Terror -- 14th among the 18 titles in plot chronology. Robespierre becomes paranoid about the Pimpernel.....
London: Hutchinson & Co., 1908. 32 pp ads dated Autumn 1908. Original blue cloth. First Edition of "these further exciting incidents in the life of the Scarlet Pimpernel during the French Revolution after the King's death" -- the sequel to Baroness Orczy's THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL (play 1903, novel 1905) and.....
Illustrated by H.M. Brock. London: Greening & Co., 1909. Original blue-grey cloth pictorially decorated in red, black and peach. First Edition of this loosely-connected collection of murder mysteries. The unnamed old man in the corner was the world's first "armchair detective," precursor to Nero Wolfe, who solved mysteries without ever.....
![THE ROVER [1/377 signed copies]. Joseph Conrad](/pictures/thumb/14514.jpg?v=1585064942)
[1/377 copies signed] Garden City NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. Original white parchment over blue boards, with both the tissue dust jacket and the blue-grey paper printed dust jacket. First Edition, limited to 377 copies numbered and signed by Conrad -- this being copy #70 (there was no English.....
Translated from the Original MS. Illustrated by Lester Ralph. London and New York: Harper & Brothers, 1906. Original red cloth decorated in green and black. First (American) Edition. Written as Eve's diary in the Garden of Eden, this was a companion volume to EXTRACTS FROM ADAM'S DIARY (1904) -- but.....
![WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK. [inscribed by Haggard]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/14477.jpg?v=1581607925)
Being an Account of the Great Adventure of Bastin, Bickley and Arbuthnot. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, (1919). Original light brown cloth on semi-flexible boards, lettered in gilt and blind. First Edition of "the most original story he [Haggard] had written for many years... his last.....
![THE YELLOW GOD. An Idol of Africa. [inscribed by Haggard]. H. Rider Haggard](/pictures/thumb/14475_2.jpg?v=1581607925)
With Three Illustrations by A.C. Michael. London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne: Cassell and Company, 1909. 8 pp ads dated Oct 1908. Original blue-grey cloth. First English Edition of this tale involving "crooked finance in England, thwarted romance, effectively functioning [tribal] fetishes, and erotic captivity in darkest Africa." Alan Vernon's.....
