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8vo, 308 pages, not illustrated. Page edges browned. eng
No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or torn with minor creasing to edges and traces of storage. 338pp. A novel by Jill Paton Walsh written in the style of and based on the characters of Dorothy L Sayers including Lord Peter Wimsey.
In 16° br. fig. col. pp. 273, come nuovo
8vo., First Edition, with numerous plates; green tweed cloth, backstrip lettered in silver, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly creased and frayed at extremities, and with minor loss at head of backstrip.
112 pages. Fiction: Love Wasn't Enough; Rage on the Mountain; First Proposal; Young and Scared; The Girl He Remembered (conclusion); The Artless Heiress (part 4 of 8). Articles: Beware Those Phony Stock Salesmen! - Boiler room operators; The Actor in Me - Kirk Douglas (part 1 of 2) - with many photos; The High Price of Haste - Photo of hideous crash scene on highway 25-70 near Marshall, North Carolina in which an asphalt truck collided with an oncoming car cilling several people including the Reverend and Mrs. T.H. Shackelford, their missionary daughter, the Reverend and Mrs. Robert N. Barefoot and their seven-year-old niece; They Rescue the Mail - how dogged postal sleuths find and deliver letters that have been lost, stolen, burned drowned or macerated by catastrophe or crime; Bargain Bonanza - Hoss Monday in Canton, Texas is the day for swapping lies, knives, horses, dogs and any kind of livestock you can name; Let's Be Sensible About Foreign Aid; The Deep South Says "Never!" (part 2 of 5) - a report from Summerton, South Carolina on how the people have reacted to the Federal integration order; Cruising the Cool Coast - great color photos of the unspoiled Maine coast; . Ads: Nice color American Motors ad inside front cover shows several of their models and features; Nice GE color-photo ad for their pink kitchen appliances; Nice two-page ad for United Aircraft Corporation shows their C-133, Convair F-102As, plus a great color air cargo illustration; Nice color Oldsmobile ad for their Golden Rocket 88 Holiday Coupe; Chevrolet ad in mountain setting; Nice color Imperial car ad shows a light blue model; Winston cigarettes; Pream coffee; International trucks; Douglas DC-7; Spud cigarettes; Buick Roadmaster 75; Great one-page black and white photo ad for Jeep; Louisa May Alcott is features in a U.S. Savings Bond ad; Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover. Average wear. Unmarked. A sound vintage copy. Magazine
in-8, 127 pages, original illustrated paper wrappers - Very Fine Copy. VERY GOOD +++ - No Marks / Très bel exemplaire. [BL-9]
Larger Ward Lock edition paperback, 126 pages, original illustrated paper wrappers - Good Copy. GOOD+, No Marks [BAT-5]
Paperback, 128 pages, original illustrated paper wrappers - Good Copy. GOOD, No Marks [EN-1]
No publishing date. 12mo, 190 pages, no illustrations. Spine sunned. eng
Number (179) stamped on front cover and half-title page. No other marks or inscriptions. No creasing to covers, arching to spine. A very clean very tight copy with bright very slightly dusty boards, well-tanned page edges, slight rubbing to spine ends and no bumping to corners. 252pp. Nineteen thirties crime fiction from novelist Edgar Wallace. Undated, ca 1950. Crime-Book Society No 27.
In 8° leg. edit. fig. col. pp. 624, ben tenuto
In 16° br. fig. col. pp. 246, come nuovo
8vo., First edition, with folding chart as frontispiece, some mild offsetting to front free endpaper; original mustard cloth, upper board and backstrip lettered in black, a very good, bright, clean , crisp copy. WITH THE BOOKPLATE OF J. BANNISTER HOWARD AND J. B. MULHOLLAND OF THE KING'S THEATRE, HAMMERSMITH ON FRONT PASTE-DOWN. The detachable competition entry form (originally present at rear) is not present in this copy. Howard and Mulholland were leading theatrical impresarios at the turn of the nineteenth century (Mulholland later founded the Wimbledon Theatre). It is possible that this copy was presented following a stage production of Wallace's famous story.
3 works in 1 vol., 8vo., First Edition thus, with 3 frontispieces and 26 illustrations in the text; cloth (green/red/brown respectively), upper boards and backstrips blocked and lettered in silver and blind, a near fine copy in publisher's illustrated board slip-case.
. Trade paperback, very good condition, w. ltly rubbed wraps, sme lt marks. V. ltly slanted sp, v. ltly bumped corners. Ltly tanned p. edges. Clean, tight, unmarked.
162 pages. Black and white illustrations in text. "Captain Lightfoot, whose real name was Michael Martin, is believevd to have been the last person in Massachusetts to be hanged for highway robbery. Shortly before his execution he dictated an account of his life and adventures" (which is reprinted here) - from Preface. Prior owner's signature atop front free endpaper, otherwise contents surprisingly clean and bright. Moderate wear to book. Binding tight. Somewhat above-average wear to dust jacket which is now preserved in a glossy new archival-grade Brodart cover. A sound vintage copy. Book
50 pages. Many reproductions of black and white photos. Printed upon glossy stock. Features: Enter the European - II - Into Brazil - Half of South America; Photo study of an air flight between Fort McMurray and Fort Good Hope; North Shore Naturalist - Comte Henri de Puyjalon; The Tsimshian; The Radford and Street Murders - famous crime at York Factory over forty years ago; Little P.G.E. (Railway) Goes Somewhere - travel article by Florence and Francis Jaques; The Fur Trade Party - conflict between 'wintering partners' eighty years ago; Northern Wildflowers; The Bells of the Turrets Twain - the bells of St. Boniface were heard across Canada on the occasion of the present Queen's coronation; Calling the 'Columbia' - article on the floating hospital-chapel-theatre serving the people of B.C.'s rugged coast; Nice colour ad for Hudson's Bay Point Blankets on back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. A sound vintage copy. Book
8vo., Uncorrected Proof Copy; half-title and title lightly browned; original plain grey wrappers, very lightly dust-soiled and chafed at head and tail of backstrip, a very good, clean copy now safely preserved for the future in a custom-made solander case.
Fine English Paperback. Pbo. Fine+. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In Turkish. 224 p. A Turkish detective novel written by Vâ-Nû. Ahmed Vâlâ Nureddin (Vâ-Nû) born in Istanbul 1901, died in Istanbul 1967; journalist and writer; pseudonyms: Hatice Süreyya, Ali Marmara and Vâ-Nû; educated at the French-speaking Galatasaray Lyceum in Istanbul and in 1917 at the Vienna School of Economics; after his return to Turkey he became a teacher in Bolu; left for Moscow, together with Nazim Hikmet, in 1921; graduated at the Kommunisticeskij Universitet Trudjascichsja Vostoka (KUTV, Communist University of the Workers of the East) in 1925; returned to Turkey in 1928; contributed to the newspapers Aksam (Evening) and Cumhuriyet (Republic) with columns, reviews, polemics and reports; in later years, together with Rasim Us, editor of the newspaper Haber (News); author of novels and short stories (under the pseudonyms Hatice Süreyya, Ali Marmara and other names) and of `Bu Dünyadan Nazim Geçti, his reminiscences of Nazim Hikmet, published in 1965; Vâ-Nû was married to the novelist Müzehher Vâ-Nû (born in 1912). Vâ-Nû is one of the first authors of Turkish detective novel.
Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Hypnotist Detective - Dr. Leopold Thoma of Vienna is a new kind of detective; Knocking at the Cannibals Door - a very dramatic story of the "white man's burden" near the Kunimaipa River in British New Guinea; My Misadventures in Finistere - an amusing account of a holiday sojourn on a little island off the northern coast of Brittany; Through the East by Air - Part III - The adventures of Richard and Sydney Carline who were commissioned by the National War Museum to paint scenes in Egypt, Palestine, Syria, Mesopotamia, Kurdistan, and Persia; The Tiger Calls - an account of what befell two Indian teaplanters; Our Little Outing - An exciting story from a P. Burns and Co. beef camp southeast of Olds, Alberta; The Man Who Turned Thief - Part III - the remarkable story of a man who conducted the most mysterious one-man robberies to ever occur in America; The Ship That Disappeared - The perilous adventure of the Canadian Government Merchant Marine steamer "Canadian Importer"; The "Human Leopards" - A Terrible secret society in Sierra Leone, West Africa; The Blue Spot Theory - a funny story about checking for birthmarks on Burmese babies; Five Thousand Miles on Foot in Central Africa - Part I - Oscar Olsson's aim was to shoot big game with a film camera; My Fishing Trip - a British Officer's touch and go experience in Sopor, a village in Kashmir; and more. 86 pages plus 16 pages of nostalgic ads. Clean and unmarked with light wear. Binding tight. A high-quality copy of this excellent vintage issue. Book
A very good paperback. Clean, tight, unmarked. ...
Very Good Italian Paperback. 4to. (28 x 20 cm). In Italian. 22 p. Appunti su alcuni aspetti dell'immigrazione Ebraica in Israele. [Estratto dalla Rivista mensile Oriente Moderno, Anno XLI. Nr. 5. Maggio 1961]. Notes on some aspects of Jewish immigration in Israel.
