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2014__0198448694OUP Oxford 2014. Paperback. New. 96 pages. 10.43x8.15x5.24 inches. OUP Oxford paperback
2014__0198448686OUP Oxford 2014. Paperback. New. 96 pages. 7.91x5.08x1.69 inches. OUP Oxford paperback
188374719London: Richard Bentley & Son 1883. 8vo.Magazine / Journal. iv 604 pp. Half gilt-lettered black morocco over marbled boards red speckle edges. Firm binding with some light rubbing to boards & extremities. Offsetting to endpapers and a few spots to endleaves but generally lovely and clean inside. The Temple Bar was a literary periodical running from 1860 to 1906 one of the leading of its kind of the time publishing work by Jane Austen Wilkie Collins Robert Louis Stevenson Anthony Trollope and Jessie Fothergill. This volume contains the first printing of an Arthur Conan Doyle short story called "The Captain of the 'Pole Star'" a ghost story set in the Arctic not published in book form until 1890. . Very Good. Half Morocco. 1883. Richard Bentley & Son 1883 unknown
74395London: George Newnes Ltd. January 1917. Literature/ humour / journal FIRST UK APPEARANCE. Octavo magazine 26 x 19cm. Illustrated throughout in black and white. Magazine format in illustrated paper covers. Original price 6d. Contents clean covers show some light handling chipped to spine ends. Includes 'Supreme Moments in Detective Fiction' a critique on writers including Edgar Allan Poe Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Wilkie Collins plus an essay on The Second Battle of Ypres by Doyle and chapters from Uneasy Money by P.G. Wodehouse. London: George Newnes, Ltd., January 1917 unknown
1928001111New York: Modern Library 1928. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Not Signed. Reprint 1st Thus. Modern Library No. 144. Rare Reprint First Thus Edition First Printing from roughly 1942 to 1944 due to the price of the "Giant Editions" on the back dj cover being $1.45. True hardback not one of the earlier decaying leatherette softcovers. Probably the first real hardback. Slight musty odor. Mottling on book covers. Book has straight stiff spine pointed tips no leans or dings. Blue boards and top stain.Vincent Starrett does the introduction in this edition and that was also changed in the 1949 edition. Original aqua and black dust jacket with picture is not price clipped .95 and has Modern Library catalog listed on the back. Earlier jackets were brown with no picture just lists of authors. This jacket has no lists on the front cover. The later 1949 jacket reintroduced the lists. General overall wear with slight crumple and loss at spine ends tips and most edges. Looks spiffy in new plastic cover protector. Modern Library Hardcover
67935London: Faber and Faber 1960. Anthology of spy stories FIRST EDITION. Octavo 21 x 14cm pp.256. Elegantly hand-bound in half black calf over matching cloth sides spine gilt-lettered in six compartments with traditional raised bands. Contents clean edges a little dusty/toned. Exterior as new. Near fine in an attractive recent leather binding. Contains an excerpt from Ian Fleming's James Bond novel 'Live and Let Die'. Fleming is also discussed at length within the introduction. This copy was specially bound for Fleming bibliographer Jon Gilbert pencil ownership within. His encyclopaedic guide to the works of Ian Fleming 2012 won the 16th Breslauer Prize for bibliography. Gilbert Jon. Ian Fleming: The Bibliography A2a page 81. London: Faber and Faber, 1960 unknown
1961mon0000731666Faber 1961T. hardcover. Very Good. . Tanning to edge of pages Vintage Copy Faber hardcover
