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193220495New York: Horace Liveright Inc. Fair. c.1932. First American Edition. Hardcover. NOISBN . no dust jacket solid reading copy but no more internally clean and firmly bound but with much external wear: soiling to covers some deterioration/fraying to cloth along hinges slight exposure of boards at top and bottom corners. The first novel by this English journalist and short-story writer a rather self-consciously "madcap" satire centered around the Cadwallows who in addition to being "one of the noblest and nuttiest families in England" are also teetering on the brink of impoverishment. Potential salvation from their financial plight arrives in the person of Miss Wilhelmina Harkaway known as "Bill" a nine-foot-tall giantess who has been brought from Australia by the family's youngest son. She is readily adopted by the Cadwallow clan and with the patronage of a wealthy and even more eccentric friend a scheme is hatched to launch her on a prizefighting career and thereby reap a fortune. This isn't due to any discernible skill on her part in that regard or even to any inherent combativeness in her nature -- she's really quite a nice young lady of nineteen -- but simply because well it's that kind of book. Not surprisingly her enormous size and commensurate strength permits her to defeat all challengers and in no time at all she becomes a somewhat freakish celebrity even at one point going on an American tour. The original jacket blurb promised "amazing swoops of cuckoo fun and general insanities and at the same time grand satire and a healthy if absurd romance." The human-freak-boxing angle is of interest as the author did a little amateur boxing himself as a young man and later garnered praise for a series of short fantasy stories about a "dwarf surrealist boxer" named Engelbrecht. . Horace Liveright, Inc. hardcover books
32518Other: Other. Very Good. Hardcover. NY 1972 . 240 pages clothbound very good condition in dust jacket. . Other hardcover books
1968116422London: Faber and Faber 1968. Octavo boards. First edition. Sixteen stories by Julian Symons Patricia Highsmith Eric Ambler Cyril Connolly and others plus poems by Maurice Richardson. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. #116422 Faber and Faber unknown books
1945114023New York: Pilot Press Ltd. 1945. Octavo cloth. First edition. Collects "The Woman in White" by Wilkie Collins "Carmilla" by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson and of most importance "The Notting Hill Mystery" a novel first published anonymously as a serial in ONCE A WEEK in November-December 1862. When "The Notting Hill Mystery" was published in book form by Saunders in 1865 it was attributed to "Charles Felix" of whom nothing is known. See Barzun and Taylor A Catalogue of Crime 61 and Tymn ed Horror Literature 2-36 "This tale is Poesque in its foreboding suggestive atmosphere". 10-page introduction by Richardson. A very good copy in very good dust jacket with shelf wear at edges some staining and soiling and several internal tape mends. This first printing is uncommon. #114023 Pilot Press Ltd. unknown books
198719907Sydney: Golden Press. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1987. Hardcover. 0855589140 . Color photographs throughout by Robbi Newman. A later printing. Front free endpaper has been removed else near fine in a near fine minor edge wear dust jacket. . Golden Press hardcover books
1999282602San Francisco: Chronicle 1999. paperback. very good. Many color photo Illus. Square 4to pr. wrs. right margins throughout are slightly wavy. San Francisco: Chronicle Books 1999. Very good<br/><br/> Chronicle unknown books
1974161313Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University 1974. hardcover. near fine. Black-and-white illustrations. 366pp. 8vo cloth d.w.; d.w. edgeworn. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1974. Near fine.<br/><br/> Louisiana State University unknown books
1974014811Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press 1974. xxiv 366p. b/w illus. maps lightly chipped dj. Louisiana State University Press unknown books
193336067N.P.: The English Association 1933. stiff paper wrappers. 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. 22 2 pages. The English Association pamphlet no. 86. Illustrated with facsimiles of the front pages of some of the newspapers. Covers soiled. The English Association unknown books
1914198074Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1914. Pamphlet. 30p. wraps lightly chipped with penciling on the front wrap 3.5x5.75 inches. Publisher's date of 1903 but the address on this copy was used from 1910 to 1914. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
1909136914Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1909. Pamphlet. 30p. wraps lightly worn else very good condition 3.5x5.75 inches. Publisher's date of 1903 but the address on this copy was used from 1908 to 1909. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
2009030604Tuscaloosa: An Auburn Book Published in Association with the University of Alabama Press 2009. x 169p. colored and b/w illus. dj. An Auburn Book, Published in Association with the University of Alabama Press unknown books
1966015648Cambridge: Univeirsity Press 1966. viii 263p. dj. Univeirsity Press unknown books
197526003Los Angeles: Crescent Publications 1975. First Edition. Octavo 21cm; illustrated wrappers; 54pp. Upper edge of text lightly foxed else Fine and unread. Second book of narrative poems by the Los Angeles-born author and member of the Watts Writer's Workshop. Crescent Publications unknown books
19282301222New York: Charles Scriber's Sons 1928. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. No jacket. Quarter-inch tear to cloth spine head. 1928 Hard Cover. 471 pp. Purple boards. Gilt title on spine. "Maria Letizia Buonaparte n Charles Scriber's Sons hardcover books
111036hardcover. very good. Illustrated. 471pp. 8vo blue cloth. New York: Scribners 1928. Very good.<br/><br/> Maria Letizia Ramolino Buonaparte.<br/><br/> unknown books
192327745New York: Dodd Mead & Co. Very Good. 1923. Hardcover. Ex-lib front hinge cracked cover worn though good. . Dodd, Mead & Co hardcover books
191056806N. P.: Reprinted from the Physical Review 1910. 8vo pp. 609-611; original printed wrappers covers stained spine starting. Reprinted from the Physical Review Vol. XXXI. No. 5 November 1910. <br/><br/> Reprinted from the Physical Review unknown books
193556807London: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 1935. 8vo pp. 503-514; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A No. 877 vol. 152 November 1935. <br/><br/> Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London unknown books
192756798London: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society 1927. 8vo pp. 484-491; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society A Vol. 116 1927. <br/><br/> Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society unknown books
193855956London 1938. 8vo pp. 467-476 i.e.10 pages; self-wrappers; near fine. Offprint from the Proceedings of the Physical Society vol. 50 1938 containing Richardson's extensive obituary of Jackson. <br/><br/> unknown books
192856935Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli 1928. 8vo pp. 5; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Fisici Settembre 1927. <br/><br/> Nicola Zanichelli unknown books
192856932Bologna: Nicola Zanichelli 1928. 8vo pp. 5; original green printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Atti del Congresso Internazionale dei Fisici Settembre 1927. <br/><br/> Nicola Zanichelli unknown books
192856800London: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society 1928. 8vo pp. 2 61-83 1; original green printed wrappers; some staining on front cover; a few readership marks. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society A Vol. 119 1928. <br/><br/> Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society unknown books
191556809London: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society 1915. Society. 8vo pp. 524-535; original printed wrappers. Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society A Vol. 91 1915. <br/><br/> Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society unknown books
