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158 pages. Author wrote the manuscript for this work from memory in 1918 but it was not published until 1969. Dedicated it to "the thousands of innocent Armenian men, women and children of Ourfa, Turkey, who perished amid the horrors of the infamous genocide of 1915-18". Documents the experiences of a civil prisoner in Turkey during the Great War. In 1914 he was deported from Beirut to the interior of Turkey where he remained until his release in 1918. Average wear to clean and unmarked book. Binding sound. Above-average wear and soiling to dust jacket. A worthy copy of this important eye-witness account. Book
12mo, 413 pages, not illustrated. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards, very slight foxing to fore page edges, tiny bump to spine foot and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with rubbing to spine ends and slight creasing/nick to upper rear edge. 316pp. Dramatic thriller set on the New York subway when hijackers kidnap a train. First UK Edition, Second Impression.
Pages 441-480. Features: Science - Super Detective - why not use universities to detect crime? - article with photo of Sir Bernard Spilsbury and Commissioner Enright, late of the New York Police; Lost & Found - short story; My Trip to a Whaler off the Shetlands, where 200 whales are killed every season - with six photos; The Looker On - a love story; Bizarre photo of golfing from the head of someone doing a handstand atop a 27-storey building; The Truth About Nerves - some simple causes of a mysterious malady by a Harley Street Doctor; Nursing Big Clocks - First Aid for the timepieces which "Tell the World"; - article with Big Ben photos; How Our Weather Forecasts are Obtained; Hidden Fires - a love story; More Zoo Secrets - article with animal photos; Angel Esquire (fiction); A Railwaymen's Triumph - photo-illustrated article on the splendid orphanage of the Railway Benevolent Institution at Derby; and more. Openings along coverfold. Staples disintegrated. Above-average but not excessive wear. A worthy vintage copy. Magazine
8vo., First Edition thus, endpapers faintly spotted; original maroon cloth, backstrip lettered in black, a good, clean copy in unclipped pictorial dustwrapper, the latter mildly creased and and frayed at edges and lightly age-soiled on (predominantly white) rear panel. Striking period dustwrapper artwork by Dennis McLoughlin. SCARCE IN THE DUSTWRAPPER.
in-8°, 279 pp., broche, couv. Bon etat (traces de rousseurs au 1er plat). [MI-14]
in-16 (poche), 280 pp., br., couv. ill. plast. Tres bel exemplaire. [@]
Small scratch in cover at base of spine. But otherwise clean, undamaged, tight, unmarked copy. Super condition.
Broché. 222 pages. Format de poche. Cachets. Marques de Bibliothèque.
in-16, broché, couv. ill. Bel exemplaire. [ESC]
in-16, broché, couv. ill. Bel exemplaire. [LP-8]
in-16, broché, couv. ill. Très bel exemplaire. [LP-8]
Good pbk reprint. Damage to the back cover. ISBN 0749311266. 19595. eng
525p. Paperback Very good condition
VG/VG . full plastic loose-fitting sleeve has kept all clean and tidy. no inscriptions. internally, a lovely clean copy. 1st. 8vo. The author was given access to Scotland Yard's Black Museum, and describes and pictures exhibits from 20 murders, including those by William Palmer, Charles Peace, Ruth Ellis, Donald Neilson and Dennis Nilsen. Illustrated with mono photo plates
184 pages, previous owner name on the inside front cover, jacket design by Patric O'Keeffe. eng
P., Jules Rouff, sans date (environ 1900).5 volumes petit in-8 reliés demi toile grise, dos ornés d'un fleuron, illustrations pleine page et dans le texte de J. Wely, 2832 pages en numérotation continue. Paru en 176 livraisons.Rousseurs sporadiques.
fort volume in-8, 491 p., broché. Etat moyen (traces de mouillures, couverture et dos defraichis). [CA30-1]
No marks or inscriptions to contents. No creasing to covers, creases to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright faintly indented boards and no bumping to corners. 285pp. The Great Depression-era adventures of America's first popular detective and super-hero battling the forces of crime and evil in fifteen stories reprinted from the early thirties.
in-8°, 188 pages, broche, couverture ill à rabats. Bel exemplaire [CA32-3]
250 pages, jacket design by Ken Leeder. eng
in-16 broché, couverture "à la Chouette". Bel exemplaire. [CHEM-3]
Around 300 pages, cover photograph by Derek Askern. eng
1st UK printing, 300 pages, cover photograph by Andy Olney. eng
276 pages. Index. "Traces Canada's role as a partner in a US-UK security network during the Second World War and shows how our intelligence community is, in fact, a branch plant." - from dust jacket. Contents clean and unmarked. Somewhat above-average wear to book. Above-average wear to dust jacket. Book