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2001Best.-Nr. 1500France Loisirs 2001 408 pages in8. 2001. broché. 408 pages.
Maison Vallon Librairie · Le Thor, Frankreich9,00 €
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1944Best.-Nr. ABE-2582076135Staples Westminster London 1944 Very rare book in very good condition. This wartime thriller has an Austrian theme. Fast action thrills aplenty and a grip on the reader that is undeniable. This book is a typical War Economy standard job so it is a delicate production. The boards are not in bad shape; the corners are not bent; the red titling on the soine has been looked after by the jacket; the text block is firm and square; there are no turned over corners; there are no names written inside; the endpapers are not split; the binding is secure; the jacket has some small losses but it is now protected; the jacket spine has one hole; nothing 'live' on the jacket is lost; it is not price clipped. So in summary here is a first rate thriller writer at the top of his form delivering an excellent story in an extremely rare first printing. I have never seen another copy of this novel. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Staples Westminster London hardcover
Best.-Nr. 2496312 March 1950; ‘P.O. Box 143 Westville Natal South Africa.’ 19 August 1955; Caroline Cottage 1st Avenue Inanda Johannesburg. Good letters the second with biographical content about a prolific yet elusive author. The recipient Eileen Margaret Cond 1911-1984 was an enthusiastic collector of autographs with the ability to draw a more than perfunctory response from her targets. Both letters in good condition on lightly aged paper folded for postage. Each bearing large stylized signature ‘Francis Gerard’ and addressed to ‘Dear Miss Cond’. ONE 12 March 1950. 1p 4to. He reports that he is ‘busy on a new thriller which I have given the provisional title of HORNED HAVEN’ the title does not show up among Gerard’s published works. ‘The General Election in England was followed by us out here with an almost unbearable feeling of tension and for my part I realised that though I am now officially a citizen of this country that I will never make a good South African.’ He reports ‘a tremendous flap about the Seretse Khama business which seems to have been handled just about as stupidly as it could have been’. He is returning her bookplates ‘with Gérard his mark upon them though I still don’t know when you’ll be able to stick the second one into TRANSPARENT TRAITOR. I gather the whole printing and publishing trade is in a parlous condition in England thanks to machinery being worn out and not replaced owing to Cripps’ insistence on all such new tackle being for export only.’ He ends with a warning regarding ‘the temperature in Durban’ for her father. TWO: 2pp foolscap 8vo. A long letter. He has been ‘wandering around Central Africa with a bunch of geologists and mining engineers’ and finding her letter is ‘touched by the continuance of your long-range friendship’. There is ‘little chance’ of his producing another book for some time. ‘When I do it will be a very different kind of book from what I have written in the past.’ The next two paragraphs describe his employment with the Anglo American Corporation of South Africa. ‘My job is a peculiar one half industrial relations and man management half public relations. The AAC is the biggest mining group in the world. It is also an enormously powerful finance house. At the head of it sits Sir Ernest Oppenheimer who despite his fantastic wealth is a most charming and delightful old boy.’ He describes how in his first year with AAC he ‘travelled nearly 30000 miles about Southern and Central Africa by aircraft car jeep horse or on my own flat feet. I went underground in diamonds gold coal copper and base metals. I stayed in palatial guest-houses or at lonely Jesuit missions in the bush. I went through malaria tsetse-fly country where you shot for the pot and kept a wary eye open for crocodile leopard or buffalo and once was fortunate to have my pygmy friends drive a gorilla for me. You do not shoot these. They are Royal Game and if you kill one it costs you a £600 fine.’ He continues for a while before describing his family. A paragraph follows in which he claims not to have ‘sold myself to Mammon’. He praises the ‘Ernest Oppenheimer hospital for Africans at Welkom’ as ‘the finest thing of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere’. He winds up with a paragraph on his ‘financial benefits’ and another on his children’s school results the former beginning ‘Well there it is. This is why Francis Gerard has not appeared on the back of a book for some time.’ 12 March 1950; ‘P.O. Box 143, Westville, Natal [South Africa].’ 19 August 1955; Caroline Cottage, 1st Avenue, Inanda, Johann unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 26306W.P Nimmo Hay & Mitchell 1930 HBDJ 1930 STATED 1st published in Great Britain First edition VG/GOOD AS-IS Small Orange Hardcover Titled in Black on Spine Cvr light rub wear. Book Condition: VG Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD with unclipped dust jacket. Some shelf wear chips and tears to edges of dust jacket. Text itself in good condition clean pages and firm binding light Fox. 244 pgs NO ADS in Back Small Octavo 7 1/2" x 5" Tiny chips tears extremities & Spine DJ Ends. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. W.P Nimmo, Hay & Mitchell, hardcover
2001Best.-Nr. 1500France Loisirs 2001 408 pages in8. 2001. broché. 408 pages.
2000Best.-Nr. 1761Le Grand Livre du Mois 2000 298 pages in8. 2000. broché. 298 pages.
1998Best.-Nr. 2887Presses de la Cité 1998 225 pages 23x14x2cm. 1998. broché. 225 pages.
1968Best.-Nr. 3798Editions France-Empire 1968 443 pages in8. 1968. Reliure Editeur avec jaquette. 443 pages.
2018Best.-Nr. 3946DE L AUBE 2018 456 pages 12 4x18 8x3 4cm. 2018. pocket_book. 456 pages. Après la mort de l'adolescent Mark Saxton aussi appelé Maaka Pitama son père biologique maori Tipene vole sa dépouille pour lui offrir des funérailles traditionnelles. Ce geste déclenche un affrontement terrible entre le père adoptif et le père biologique révélant les tensions culturelles et communautaires en Nouvelle-Zélande
1977Best.-Nr. 3970Chez l'auteur 1977 121 pages in8. 1977. broché. 121 pages. Le roman raconte l'histoire d'un communiste infiltré dans l'Église catholique qui parvient à devenir cardinal et tente d'imposer ses idées avant d'être confronté à Mgr Lemaitre et à un mouvement de renaissance catholique. L'intrigue mêle espionnage politique satire religieuse et enjeux idéologiques
2007Best.-Nr. 4027Albin Michel 2007 400 pages 14 6x3 2x22 4cm. 2007. broché. 400 pages. Le roman 'Le Pacte secret' d'Albert Algoud publié chez Albin Michel est une fiction politique qui met en scène une élection présidentielle où le prochain président serait annoncé comme le dernier suggérant un complot ou une manipulation de grande ampleur. L'ouvrage mêle intrigue thriller et satire des milieux politiques
1997Best.-Nr. 4275Glenat 1997 48 pages IN4. 1997. Cartonnage editeur. 48 pages.
1980Best.-Nr. 4303Oswald 1980 158 pages in8. 1980. broché. 158 pages.
2011Best.-Nr. 4371Le Seuil 2011 373 pages 15x22x3cm. 2011. broché jaquette. 373 pages.
1969Best.-Nr. 4503Parme 1969 224 pages poche. 1969. broché. 224 pages.
2022Best.-Nr. 4579Lattes 2022 413 pages 14x22 4x2 9cm. 2022. broché. 413 pages.
1997Best.-Nr. 4638Glenat 1997 48 pages IN4. 1997. Reliure editeur cartonnée. 48 pages.
1997Best.-Nr. 4641Glenat 1997 48 pages IN4. 1997. Reliure editeur cartonnée. 48 pages.
1997Best.-Nr. 4643Glenat 1997 48 pages IN4. 1997. Reliure editeur cartonnée. 48 pages.
1977Best.-Nr. 4655Prifo éditions 1977 95 pages IN4. 1977. agrafé. 95 pages.
1997Best.-Nr. 4690Rivages 1997 496 pages 4x23x15cm. 1997. broché. 496 pages.
1979Best.-Nr. 4792Garnier 1979 183 pages in8. 1979. broché. 183 pages.
1997Best.-Nr. 4984Mazarine 1997 186 pages 20 8x13 2x2cm. 1997. broché. 186 pages.
1997Best.-Nr. 5172Librairie generale francaise 1997 319 pages 11x17 7x2 2cm. 1997. pocket_book. 319 pages.
2017Best.-Nr. 5191Pocket 2017 537 pages 10 6x18x2 5cm. 2017. pocket_book. 537 pages.
2006Best.-Nr. 5365Michel Lafon 2006 366 pages 13x20x3cm. 2006. broché. 366 pages. Deux étudiants de Princeton tentent de percer les secrets du 'Songe de Poliphile' un livre énigmatique de la Renaissance écrit en cinq langues et orné de gravures érotiques et violentes qui a résisté à toute interprétation depuis 1499. Leur quête les entraîne dans la découverte de messages cachés d'une crypte secrète et de trésors tout en essayant d'échapper à la malédiction qui semble frapper ceux qui s'attaquent à ce texte
