Antikvariat Bryggen - Jul | Christmas | 2023

91
JO NESBØ
Flaggermusmannen.
Oslo: Aschehoug, 1997. Forlagsbind med vareomslag.
Vareomslaget en liten anelse støtt i øvre bakre hjørne. For
øvrig ett meget velholdt og tilsynelatende ulest eksemplar
av Nesbøs debutbok. Bokens opplag var lite og det
er vanskelig å finne velholdte eksemplarer.
First edition of the first of the Harry Hole books. «Flaggermusmannen»
(«The Bat») had a quite low print run, and
is therefore difficult to find in the first place and secondly
even harder to find in fine condition. Jo Nesbø has been
internationally acknowledged for his crime books, in
2020 even being placed on the Time Magazine 100 best
mystery and thriller books of all time with «Rødstrupe»
(«The Redbreast», UK 2012).
Harry Hole is a genuine anti-hero: an impossible character,
yet impossible not to like. According to his superiors,
Harry is both Oslo Crime Squad’s most brilliant detective,
and its most frustrating. He struggles with authority, especially
when bureaucracy prevents him from doing what’s
right for the people of Oslo and the victims who suffer
at the hands of violent criminals. Harry is nevertheless
revered by his colleagues, not only for his deductive powers
and uncanny ability to think like the killer he’s hunting,
but because his high moral standards and pronounced
sense of justice often lead him in the right direction.
In his personal life, things are just as complicated. Harry
is conflicted by his relationship with Rakel, the single
mother whom he fell in love with and who has since walked
into and out of his life at irregular intervals owing to Harry’s
workaholic tendencies. Harry has also developed a close
relationship with Rakel’s son Oleg, to whom he has become
a strong father figure. Like Harry’s little sister Sis, Oleg
brings light to Harry’s existence – and life, at times, really
does seem to come together for Inspector Hole. But a
case always comes in to turn everything upside down.
1 500,- | £115 | $140
92
JO NESBØ
Kakerlakkene.
Oslo: Aschehoug, 1998. Forlagsbind med vareomslag.
Blindtrykket eierstempel på forsatsblad. For øvrig et meget
velholdt eksemplar av Nesbøs andre bok.
SIGNERT av Nesbø på smusstittelbladet.
A fine inscribed copy of the second Harry Hole book
«Kakerlakkene» («The cocroaches», UK 2013).
750,- | £55 | $70
93
[NORMANDY] CHARLES NORMANDE
Description de la France.
Souvenirs Historiques. Guides Archéologique,
Photographique, Vélocipédique.
-Arques, Archelles, Bataille, Église, Chateau. [88pp].
-Pourville. Manoir d’Ango, Ruines de Sante Marguerite.
[196pp.]
-Chateau de Mesnières. [41pp.]
-Dieppe. [391pp.]
-Environs de Dieppe. La Cote Normande. [552pp.]
Paris: Bureaux de l’Ami des Monument et des Arts, no
date (app. 1895-1905). Small 8vo. 5 titles, bound with
all wrappers, in delicate green half morocco [Moens Rel.
Paris]. Lavishly gilt to spines with inlays of red morocco.
Upper corners very lightly bumped. A fine and attractive set.
Charles Normand [1858-1934], historian, archaeologist
and architect initiated in 1894 a series of regional
”Guides-Souvenirs” to form an inventory of important artistic
and archaeological sites. The guides were published
in a small “pocket format” and were richly illustrated
with plates; engravings, drawings, maps and photographs.
3 500,- | £265 | $330
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