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Nordic noir, history and mystery, vanishings and deaths, legendary heroes, talking animals, kings and queens, a few right thinking men, trolls and ghosts, hypothermia and cold cases, French murders, mournful Lieutenant Boruvka, conflicted Gerhard Self, the last of Marshal Guarnaccia, a book that boomerangs, a whipping boy, feng shui Master Wong, the mad and the wise, Auntie Poldi, Inspector Shanti de Silva, Scilly and other isles – all transcending global borders and defying classification.
Welcome to our new catalogue blending folktales and mysteries in the exploration of place; peripatetic stories from many different lands connected by recurring ideas, moral conundrums, life’s big adventures, and murder.
London: Hammond Hammond and Company. First English edition, 1957.
The sheriff from Notlaw, Colorado arrives at New York's Grand Central Station, on the trail of a murderer.
Foxing to extremities, about very good in dustwrapper chipped at edges.
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London: Victor Gollancz. First English edition, 1973.
An English thriller set mostly in San Francisco; Ed Buchanan, Special Branch is led into the world of student revolts in California, San Francisco, London and The Riviera.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Secaucus, NJ: Castle Books. Reprint, 1989.
Forget about Cape Cod beaches, Vermont villages, steaming lobsters and ivied campuses. What happens during the lonely, isolated winters when the tourists have left makes these nineteen stories based on New England legend and folklore, far more interesting.
Extremities evenly tanned, very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: William Morrow. First American edition, 1976.
An Armenian folktale adapted and illustrated by the author; two robbers meet by accident to discover they are engaged to the same girl, and so begins a test of thieves to win her hand.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Brentano's. First English edition, 1929.
Late career writing from the prolific author: six stories, published as 'The Bradmoor Murder' in America, and featuring Sir Henry Marquis of Scotland Yard and Robert Harmscourt. 'Come to the land where men grind their wheat in the sky'... the first story begins.
Original pictorial cloth. Foxing to prelims. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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[Melbourne]: Vacuum Oil Company. Reprint, 1952.
An Aboriginal folk story about a boy born with a mark in the shape of a kangaroo on his shoulder and pointy ears, who never cried, and is surrounded by mythological beings and strange happenings; illustrations by the author.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Owner signature, some faint annotations on pp.4-5. Very good. Muir 157
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Neutral Bay, NSW: Pantera Press. Third edition, 2017.
Introducing Rowland Sinclair with his talent for scandal; #1 in a series of eight: history and mystery in 1930s Depression Australia – six o'clock closing of grog shops, the new Sydney Harbour Bridge, the Archibald prize, murder and conspiracy, extremist political factions, angry young men, artists and dissidents, extremely muddy waters, Australia on the brink of revolution – and all because of so many wrong thinking men.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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Edinburgh: Polygon. Reprint, 2003.
Charismatic Precious Ramotswe #1 has a nose for locating missing persons, a natural instinct for crime solving, courage in the face of crocodiles and cobras, and a great love of Africa.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Picador. First English paperback edition, 2003.
Inspector Espinosa #1 – in between pork sandwiches and collecting books – conducts an offbeat police procedural that exposes life in Rio de Janiero for the haves and have-nots.
Pictorial wrappers. Very good.
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London: Bracken Books. Reprint, 1992.
One volume edition of 'Celtic Fairy Tales' (first published in 1892) and 'More Celtic Fairy Tales' (1894); twenty six tales from Ireland, Wales, Brittany, Scotland, Cornwall and the Isle of Man handed down for centuries; six full page illustrations by John D. Batten.
Owner stamp, extremities evenly tanned, very good in dustwrapper marked on reverse.
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New York: Avenel Books. Reprint, 1986.
Twenty-two myths and legends about the creation of the world, through animals and gods to the Mikados and legendary kings of Japan, dragons as benevolent gods, red being the colour of life, and immortality gained from ginseng taken with mermaid's flesh; illustrations include scenes from Oriental paintings, woodcuts and sculptures.
Bookplate. A little edgewear, very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: Riverhead Books. First American edition, 2016.
A visitor from the protagonist's past and a Barbara Vine like unravelling; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. First American edition, 1982.
Trouble in Prague. Illustrations by Uri Shulevitz. #393/450 numbered copies signed by the author and illustrator.
Original brown cloth. Fine without dustwrapper as issued, in matching slipcase.
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London: Victori Gollancz. First English ediiton, 1975.
Inspector Morck of Copenhagen #1; a brutal murder in a close-minded town; early Nordic noir, combining character study, detective novel and psychological suspense.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: John Heywood. Reprint, 1865.
Among the inhabitants of nooks and cloughs in Lancashire.
Printed wrappers, sewn. Just good.
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New York: Crown. First American edition, 1995.
Reginald Wexford #16 (of 24): black skinned people are living in Kingsmarkham, they speak, and are, English, Dr. Akande's one, and his daughter is missing; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Persephone Books. Reprint, 2009.
Murder in wartime, though not at the front; first published 1947, with a publisher's note quoting Raymond Chandler's enthusiastic endorsement.
Printed wrappers. Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Constable. First English edition, 1955.
Murder 'on Principle, in Solitude, with Mushrooms, in High Places, by Consent, for Profit, and by a Gentleman': accounts of seven crimes committed in France between 1850 and 1940.
Slight foxing to extremities, else fine in very good dustwrapper rubbed on the rear panel
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New York: New American Library. First American edition, 1989.
Thirty-six classic French fairy tales that first appeared in the salons of the court of Louis XIV, including by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy; many written by women in the late seventeenth century, expressing hopes for more equal status during the 'ancien regime'.
Remainder stripe bottom edge, spots of foxing to extremities, very good in fine dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1989.
One hundred plus folktales, divided into loose subject categories – including 'The Devil', 'Around the Village', 'The Mad and the Wise'; illustrated; translated and introduction by Royall Tyler; selected from the collection of Henri Pourrat.
Review copy with press release laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Arcade Publishing. First American edition, 2008.
Translations in verse by Craig Hill; sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves hold a mirror to seventeenth century French society; illustrations by Edward Sorel; notes, index of titles.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Fordham, NY: Fordham University Press. First American edition, 1988.
Fifty-two folktales and legends from the Lohr region, Franconia; parallel German and English text throughout; inscribed by Norbert Krapf in 1990 with a small coloured drawing of three cherries and signed again by him on the title page.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Phoenix. First English paperback edition, 2005.
#1 in a series of three novels set in the 1990s; former state prosecutor in the Nazi regime, now a PI, Gerhard Self investigates the hacking of a commercial organisation's computer system, unearthing dark secrets that force him to confront his own demons from the past.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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London: Quercus. First English edition, 2008.
A German family murdered at the end of World War Two; a former resident of their village returns to investigate. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication.
Near fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Schocken Books. Reprint, 1978.
Twenty-seven Haitian folktales: A man marries a woman who is really a donkey, animals talk on the phone, a fish befriends a child, a girl commands a tree to grow; music and lyrics to songs in English and Creole; illustrations by Elsa Henriquez.
Pictorial wrappers. Gift inscription, else fine
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Melbourne: Invincible Press. First Australian edition, 1945.
Mid-career for Inspector French of Scotland Yard; originally published in England in 1936.
Pictorial wrappers. Prelims and extremities tanned. About very good.
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New York: Oxford University Press. First American edition, 1998.
A larger version of the locked room: twenty-two shipboard mysteries, from contributors including Georges Simenon, William Faulkner, Agatha Christie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Arthur Conan Doyle, Susan Moody, John Dickson Carr and a couple along the waterfront to relieve the tension.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Polygon. First English edition, 2009.
Master Wong mystery #3 in which the feng shui consultant and reluctant amateur detective and his sidekick head across Asia on a series of feng shui readings that end up as mystery cases.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Minotaur Books. First American edition, 2010.
Murder in Reykjavik #8, featuring Erlendur Sveinsson, a 'cold case' expert on missing persons, a voice for the dead and disappeared: Is there life after death?
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Soho Press. First American edition, 2011.
Icelandic police procedural; Officer Gunnihildur #1.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Harvill Secker. First English edition, 2012.
Sigurdur Oli takes centre stage within the Detective Erlendur series; set against a society in moral and fiscal free fall. Will Siggi find the killer as well as his own humanity and will the financial industry's 'new Vikings' regain the plot or vanish beneath Icelandic snow?
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New Delhi: Viking. First Indian edition, 1993.
One hundred folktales, originally oral tales, from 22 languages, across the subcontinent.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New Delhi: Penguin. Revised edition. Reprint, 2004-2005.
Two volumes: Thirty-five, all the stories featuring Bengali detective Feluda, one way around the complete subcontinent; introduction by Gopa Majumdar, foreword by Bijoya Ray, the author's wife, and a note by Satyajit Ray written in 1988; translated by Gopa Majumdar, and a chronology of the stories.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine. The two vols.
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London: Harvill Secker. First English edition, 2021.
A murder in Kolkata, another in London's East End: a connection? Disgraced detective, turned waiter Kamil Rahman #1 in a murder mystery rich in Indian culture, food and atmosphere; commissioned by the BBC to become a television series.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Hodder and Stoughton. First English edition, 1976.
The legend of Knocksheogowna – the fairy hill – retold in rhyme; illustrations by Robine Clingnett.
Original pictorial boards. British Council sticker on front free endpaper, else fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Henry Holt. First American edition, 2006.
Quirke 'Griffin' #1; 1950s Irish Catholic Dublin and Boston – one family has more skeletons than shoes in its closets, and a grumpy pathologist has no choice but to become involved; written by a Booker-winning author writing under a pen name.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Hugh Town, St. Mary's: [1965].
Sub-titled 'A Booklet of Quotations, Recipes, Hints and Sketches by Those who Know and Love the Isles of Scilly'; collated from locals' recipes and reminiscences as well as literary sources; illustrated.
Pictorial wrappers, stapled. Very good.
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Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Kestrel Books. First English edition, 1975.
Twenty-four folktales from twenty islands, either English, Welsh or Scottish and four from the Channel Islands; illustrations by Anthony Colbert.
British Council sticker on front free endpaper, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1985.
Seventy folktales, arranged thematically, including: 'Fairies', 'Origins and Causes', 'Fabulous Beasts', 'Giants and Strong Men', and 'Enchantment'; wood engravings by Hannah Firmin; bibliography.
Review copy with publisher's embargo slip laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: The Orion Press. First American edition, 1959.
Fifty-three stories, from all the regions, the first selection of Calvino's retelling of Italian folktales to appear in English; translated by Louis Brigante, illustrated by Michael Train.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Honolulu, Hawaii: University Press of the Pacific. Reissue, 2002.
Ninety-six stories – ghosts, legendary heroes, family stories; first published in 1877.
Printed wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Atria Books. First American edition, 2006.
Milan, 1497: a papal mission to investigate Leonardo da Vinci's alleged heresies and in particular a subversive code in the nearly completed 'The Last Supper'; a fresh perspective on the Renaissance mind; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Soho Press. First American edition, 2008.
The thirteenth, and last, Marshall Guarnaccia murder mystery takes place in Florence where the grief-stricken Paoletti household guards many secrets.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: John Murray. First English paperback edition, 2017.
Auntie Poldi #1 in which an off-the-wall, fish out of water Bavarian woman living in Italy embarks on a crusade to solve a murder.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: St. Martin's Press. First American edition, 1995.
The author's version, and thoughts on the significance of Passover, beginning with a conversation between a grandmother and her granddaughter preparing traditional recipes; illustrations by Michael McCurry.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Collins. First English edition, 1980.
Young Chinese-American journo, Raymond Huang becomes the target of five immensely wealthy and powerful men in Vientiane, Laos in 1972; his quest to solve a murder mystery enters the strongholds of a dying Oriental leader, the sumptuous hermitage of a modern Croesus, and one of the greatest political centres of the world.
Owner signature, top edge dusty, faint tape shadow to prelims, else very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: Soho Press. First American edition, 2011.
Dr. Siri #8; Lao noir set in 1978; the national coroner's last assignment before retirement, and a hot-button trigger for both the Americans and the Laotians involved.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Martin Brian and O'Keefe. First English edition, 1977.
Seventeen Libyan folktales; introduction by Pearse Hutchinson finding an overlap in these stories and those of Tayeb Salih, the Sudanese novelist.
Fine in very good dustwrapper.
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Singapore: Times Books. First Singaporean edition, 1985.
Jah Hut myths from the Krau River Valley in Pahang, Malaysia; parallel text for myths; maps, photographs, other illustrations.
Pictorial boards. Fine as issued without dustwrapper.
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New York: Lincoln Macveagh The Dial Press. First American edition thus, 1928.
Known to history as 'Gesta Romanorum' – 181 folktales from the Middle Ages; exchanged and told among monks during off duty hours; retold for the first time in modern style.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. First American edition, 1970.
Thirty-five tales, myths and stories presented in six sections: Romances of King Arthur's Court, Adventures and Escapades, Lovers' Weal and Woe, Wonders and Prodigies, Moral Tales, Merry Tales and Salty Fictions; illustrations by Alison Mason Kingsbury.
Gift inscription, top edge dusty, very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: Random House. First American edition, 1972.
An ex-CIA agent in the Middle East freelances as a courier to Tunis, Beirut, Jordan and Libya, his only loyalty is to a Palestinian girl about whom he knows nothing.
Top edge dusty, very good in dustwrapper.
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San Diego, CA: Thunder Bay Press. First American edition, 2002.
'The Illustrated History of World Myth and Storytelling', or world history organised by regions and mythologies that arose from each; from the Middle East to the Southern World via Celtic, Viking, Germanic, Eastern, the New and the Southern World; Australia slips in via 'The Unseen Worlds of Australasia'; illustrated in colour throughout.
Extremities dusty. Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: HarperCollins. First Australian edition thus, 1998.
Greek and Roman myths, Bullfinch style; European art, 100 colour illustrations, from the Renaissance onwards, including Michelangelo, Botticelli, Titian, Poussin, Tiepolo and Burne-Jones.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Harper and Row. First American edition, 1962.
Inspector Van der Valk #1; the author's first novel.
Small abrasion on front pastedown where price sticker has been removed, else fine in very good dustwrapper with an annotation on the inside rear flap.
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Auckland: Oswald-Sealy. First New Zealand edition, [1962].
Thirty-five Maori folktales retold, mostly from the Wellington area; glossary.
Fine in very good dustwrapper sunned on spine.
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Hamilton, New Zealand: Pauls Book Arcade. First New Zealand edition, 1962.
Inspector Wright #2; How can a murder take place among such nice people and in such a charming rural landscape? Written of course before the advent of 'Midsomer Murders'.
Very good in good dustwrapper chipped along edges and worn at folds
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Wellington: A.H. and A.W. Reed. Reprint, 1964.
Twenty-eight stories and histories from the original inhabitants of Aotearoa, including tales of the great migration from the Polynesian homeland Hawaiki, the creation of two islands, the Earth and the Sky, forests and mountains; illustrations by Dennis Turner; first published 1946, third, revised edition 1961.
Owner signature. Very good in dustwrapper.
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Wellington: A.H. and A.W. Reed. First New Zealand edition, 1970.
Six folktales: 'The Woman in the Moon', 'Take Finds a Husband', Kanawa and the Fairies', 'Rata's Canoe', 'Cinema Swims Across the Lake' and 'The Bird Woman'; illustrations by Raymond Labone.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Victor Gollancz. First English edition, 1985.
The second novel about Celia Grant, botanist and detective, who encounters morally-challenged politicians, leftist terrorists, sex scandals, murder, and endangered alpine flora on a visit to New Zealand.
Top edge dusty, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Parents' Magazine Press. First American edition thus, 1968.
Eleven stories; illustrations by Helen Siegl, glossary and introduction.
Pictorial boards. Owner signature. Very good. No dustwrapper.
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Toronto: Viking. First Canadian edition, 2012.
Laura Curtis, on the trail of an online scam, heads to Lagos ...; signed by the author.
Fine in dustwrapper
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New York: HarperCollins. First American edition, 2010.
Homicide detective Harry Hole #5; pattern killings in not-for-tourists Oslo; Harry's job hangs by a thread, and his nemesis drives him to drink.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Noumea, New Caledonia: Librairie Pentecost. First New Caledonian edition, 1944.
Thirty-four stories, all over the South Pacific, illustrations – photographs, drawings – map and glossary; wartime production.
Owner signature. Good in fair dustwrapper missing a piece from the crown of the spine, marked on the rear panel and chipped at edges.
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Melbourne: Longmans, Green and Co. First Australian edition, 1957.
Thirty-six indigenous myths and legends from Australia (17), New Guinea (1), New Zealand (2), Micronesia (7), Borneo (5), Tonga, Fiji, Vanuatu and the Solomons (all 1 each); illustrations by Nancy Parker.
Owner signature, extremities darkened. Very good in dustwrapper.
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London: Fitzcarraldo Editions. Reprint, 2020.
What happens when you let a Nobel laureate loose in a genre novel along the Czech Republic and Polish border is multiple examples of 'testosterone autism', a highly aroused beetle – Cucujus Haematodes, more than a passing nod to William Blake, and importantly, a mention of badgers – although not our very own reading badger. 'Spoor' by Agnieszka Holland was the movie version in 2017.
Printed wrappers. Small remnants of stain top corner, edgewear. Very good.
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London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson and Phoenix. First paperback editions, 2006.
'Pelagia and the White Bulldog', 'Pelagia and the Red Rooster', 'Pelagia and the Black Monk' complete; the first three mysteries featuring the Russian nun with uncanny deductive powers.
Pictorial wrappers. All fine. The three vols
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 2007.
Murder during a Russian winter; criminal investigator Porfiry Petrovich, last seen nailing Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', takes on bureaucracy and social injustice in a Tsarist Russia ripe for revolution, #1; signed by the author in the year of publication.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper. 500 copies.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 2008.
Porfiry Petrovich – Dostoyevsky's hero from 'Crime and Punishment' – reincarnated, #2: a double summer murder in 1860s imperial St. Petersburg: how does a fancy box of chocolates lead to smelly sewers and fetid canals?
Pictorial wrappers. Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine.
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London: Studio Editions. Reprint, 1993.
Sixty-eight folktales and encounters: witches, fairies, foxes, wolves; fog, mist, wind and rain.
Owner stamp and shadow on front pastedown where price sticker has been removed, else fine in dustwrapper
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New York: Harper and Row. First American edition, 1974.
The hottest night of the year: Tromp Kramer and Mickey Zondi #3, a bi-racial detective team in 1970s South Africa, investigate what happened to young bachelor Hugo Swart when he opened the fridge door for a cool drink.
Spots of foxing to top edge, else fine in very good dustwrapper.
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New York: Harper and Row. First American edition, 1977.
Seemingly mismatched police detectives – white Afrikaans Lieutenant Kramer and his Bantu assistant Mickey Zondi #5; someone is tying the noose in apartheid-era South Africa.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1984.
Tromp Kramer and Sergeant Zondi #7, the crime-solving interracial duo are back on the case, or here two cases, in Apartheid South Africa. No enemies or motive, no clues, and it appears, no egg – artful or otherwise.
Fine in dustwrapper a little sunned on the spine.
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New York: Harcourt Brace and Company. First American edition, 1995.
Developers eyeing off Our Lady of the Tears, a baroque church in Seville; the Vatican sends in a priestly James Bond to investigate death and dirty business under Andalusian skies.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Melbourne: Text. Reprint, 2004.
A book about a book and the lifelong search for more information about its author Julian Carax, and the first in a series, beginning with a visit to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books in the back streets of Barcelona, 1945 during the poverty and fear of the Franco era.
Pictorial wrappers. Fine.
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New York: Pantheon. First American edition, 1993.
From the publisher's Fairy Tale and Folktale Library; 150 tales, collected from all parts of Sweden, divided into subject categories – including Metamorphoses, Trolls, Giants, Ghost, and Other Beings, True Dummies and Clever Folk – a precursor of Nordic Noir; illustrated.
Review copy with press release laid in. Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: The New Press. First American edition, 1998.
Wallander #3: the murder of a Swedish woman crosses with Apartheid South Africa; crime connects a sleepy police force to global events, including a plot to assassinate Nelson Mandela – but what does this do to Wallander's state of mind?
Fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Harvill Secker. First English edition, 2008.
Five stories following Kurt Wallander's career in the seaside town of Ystad before he appeared in 'Faceless Killers' in 1990, from his first case at the age of twenty-one, to his rise to detective; translated from the Swedish by Ebba Segerberg and Laurie Thompson.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech University Press. First American edition, 1991.
Eighteen tales featuring Turkish wise man/dervish, wit, critic, and philosopher of all philosophers, Nasreddin Hoca, holding a mirror up unflinchingly; illustrated by Harold Person.
"If you tell us three hundred stories, we'll crown you as the king of storytellers." "I can't even manage two hundred, so what would I do with three hundred?"
Faint erasure mark on the front free endpaper, else fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: The Dial Press. First American edition, 1970.
Eight folktales: the devotion and sacrifice of three people for each other, a jewelled slipper, silver river, magic crystal, and also, the shadow on the wall; illustrations by Brigitte Bryan.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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New York: Delacorte Press. First American edition, 1996.
Sequel to 'A Woman's Eye' (1991): twenty-six mystery stories by women, featuring female protagonists on a global stage, and about cultural issues of special concern to women.
Includes well-known voices such as Ruth Rendell, Marcia Muller, Nancy Pickard, Liza Cody, Elizabeth George, Linda Barnes, Susan Dunlap, Lia Matera, and the editor; newer ones like Nevada Barr, Susan Geason and Frances Fyfield, as well as introducing new voices: Algerian writer Amel Benaboura in her English language debut, Helga Anderle, Andrea Smith, Irina Muravyova and Dicey Scroggins Jackson. 'With the many women on the case, surely we will never again know another season of silence'– the editor.
Spots of foxing to extremities, else fine in dustwrapper
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London: Virago. Reprint, 2010.
Originally in two volumes: 'The Virago Book of Fairy Tales' and 'The Second Virago Book of Fairy Tales'; the editor casts a wide net: 100+ tales from the Arctic to Asia with notes. Expect 'no dippy princesses or soppy fairies, instead, crafty women and bad girls, rascal aunts and odd sisters in a celebration of strong minds, low cunning, black arts and dirty tricks'; illustrated by Corinna Sargood, afterword by Marina Warner.
Fine in dustwrapper
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London: Methuen. First English edition, 1976.
Stories through the ages from all parts of the world, including Jamaica, Pomerania, Africa, Hungary, where spells have magical powers and curses wreak havoc, only to be lifted by an act of heroism and bravery; illustrations by Robin Jacques.
Small erasure mark front free endpaper, else fine in dustwrapper.
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London: Methuen. First English omnibus edition, 1978.
Wickedness and redemption from around the world, including Alaska, Finland, Macedonia and Madagascar, where justice is served in dangerous last-minute rescues, the good are rewarded and the wicked punished – of course, it must be a fairytale; illustrations by Robin Jacques.
Fine in dustwrapper.
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co. First American edition, 1975.
The third volume of the author's collected travel essays – eerie tales from 14 countries, including Korea, South Africa, Japan, Iceland; people disappear, a doll comes to life, and a man lives for centuries, inexplicable stories that are 'stranger than the ring of a bell when no-one is at the door, or the fluttering of a curtain when there is no breeze'. Illustrated by Mila Lazarevich.
Very good in dustwrapper.
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New York: Oxford University Press. Reprint, 1997.
The best adventures of twenty-five sleuthing twosomes, spanning locations from England to Antarctica and more than a century of crime fiction, including puzzle-solvers Holmes and Watson, Paul Snyder and Elliot Oakes, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin, Madame Rosika Storey and Bella, Pam and Jerry North, Jeff and Haila Troy, Peter and Iris Duluth, Drs Coffee and Mookerji, Carpenter and Quicannon, McCone and Kelleher Campion and Inspector Kenny, and lesser known stories such as Julie Smith's never-before published 'The End of the Earth' featuring Skip Langdon and Steve Steinman; by authors including Poe, Sayers, Christie, Frederic Brown, Michael Gilbert and P.G Wodehouse.
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New York: Tudor. First American edition thus, 1928.
Eight hundred+ fables from the Talmud and Ancient Greece to early twentieth century, includes Aesop and Phaedrus, Florian, La Fontaine, Lessing, Dodsley, Gay, Yriarte, Pignotti, 100 fables from the pen of Kriloff, to the 'moderns' Stevenson, Tolstoi, Ambrose Bierce and Anatole France; at the time, the most complete collection of fables ever published.
Edgewear and extremities darkened. Good in dustwrapper creased at edges and darkened around the perimeter.
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London: Faber and Faber. First English edition, 1974.
Eighteen folktales from eighteen countries; illustrations by Errol Le Cain.
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New York: HarperCollins. First American edition, 2009.
Trouble in the Jackalberry Bush Camp, along the Botswana Zimbabwe border; Detective Kubu #2; also known as 'A Deadly Trade'.
Remainder stripe bottom edge, else fine in very good dustwrapper.
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