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VG/VG . slight creasing to top edge of dj over spine. 1st edition. speckling/foxing to top edge of textblock, and isolated to other edges. nothing similar internal. not price-clipped. no inscriptions. delightful clean copy. appears unread. uncommon title. collectable.
Covers somewhat worn, page ends also. ...
1988230918-MB08Waveland Press Inc. 1988. Very Good softcover . Softcover. Very Good. Waveland Press, Inc. Paperback
Ex-library book with the usual stamps and markings. Interior pages clean and unmarked; tight binding. This book is from the Bon Marche Rental Library, "Happy in the Home with Books," and has a cool dust jacket insert. Yellowing pages.
200221362Boston: Little Brown & Co 2002. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/near fine. First edition first printing of this breakout successful novel by the author of Lucky. A clean near fine example in near fine price intact dustwrapper. Price sticker afixed to rear panel. Source for the film of the same name. Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
197228912Philadelphia: Oswald Train 1972. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/very good. 12mo. 156 pp. Reprint edition of Bennett's only volume of detective stories. A handsome near fine copy in very good pictorial dustwrapper with design by William Dixon. Oswald Train unknown books
1965038820London: Heinemann 1965 Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st.UK Ed. 'Snow covered the airfield. It had come from the north in the mist driven by the night wind smelling of the sea. There it would say all Winter threadbare on the grey earth an icy sharp dust; not thawing and freezing but static like a year without seasons. The changing mist like the smoke of war would hang over it swallow up now a hangar now the radar hut now the machines; release them piece by piece drained of colour black carrion on a white desert . . Neat copy of UK first edition but lacking the dj. Heinemann hardcover
8vo., First Edition thus; handsomely bound in full burgundy crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, original backstrip mounted on new leaf at front, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. The UK edition precedes the US edition which was published in the following year.
19523821<p>New York: Collier Books 1965 1952. 1st edition. Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. VG. 12mo 160pp printed wrappers. Solid copy of this True Crime classic discussing the case that inspired the film The Honeymoon Killers. Owner name to half title page else unmarked with a bit of edge wear.</p> New York: Collier Books paperback
275 pages including index. and black and white photographic plates. "Jack the Ripper was an American, who escaped police custody. When he fled London the Ripper killings ceased, but then started up again on the other side of the Atlantic. a team of officers from Scotland Yard failed to track him down in America. Did the police 'lose' files in order to cover-up their own incompetence in letting him escape?" - from dust jacket. Usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Above-average wear. Binding loosening at back. Worthy reading copy. Book
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.
355pp. 29 cm. Hardcover Very good condition good
1992020205Portland: ME: King Philip Pub. Co. 1992. 1st ed. Fine un-read copy in dust jacket. One of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by both Flynn & Kent on laid in plate in shrinkwrap as issued. Until this sourcebook no one has been content to present the chronicling of events as they unfolded and leave the verdict to the reader with the least bias toward Lizzie Borden. Here you will find reproductions of 41 newspapers from Fall River to New Orleans to San Francisco official correspondence and transcripts as well as information on the plays opera and ballet inspired by the legendary crimes. Heavily illustrated. . Signed. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition. King Philip Pub. Co. Hardcover
1992019071Portland: ME: King Philip Pub. Co. 1992. 1st ed. Fine un-read copy in dust jacket. One of 1000 numbered copies SIGNED by both Flynn & Kent on laid in plate in shrinkwrap as issued. Until this sourcebook no one has been content to present the chronicling of events as they unfolded and leave the verdict to the reader with the least bias toward Lizzie Borden. Here you will find reproductions of 41 newspapers from Fall River to New Orleans to San Francisco official correspondence and transcripts as well as information on the plays opera and ballet inspired by the legendary crimes. Heavily illustrated. . Signed. Limited/Numbered. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Limited/ Numbered Edition. King Philip Pub. Co. Hardcover
8vo., First Edition, small signature on front free endpaper; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper.
8vo., First Edition thus; elegantly bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Chandler's penultimate Marlowe novel. The UK first edition precedes the US edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION
8vo., First Edition thus; red cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges, and with loss at upper edge of front panel and tail of backstrip. In the image a facsimile dustwrapper is laid loosely behind the original. Chandler's penultimate Marlowe novel. The UK first edition precedes the US edition. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION.
191 pages, edges browned, cover design by Michael Peters, previous owner names on prelims, (Penguin Book C2524). eng
5073London: Readers Library n.d. 1928 . 8 plates. Small 8vo pp. 252:1 advert. original gilt decorated cloth. Contemporary ink stamped name of original owner on upper blank margin of title and on endpaper; else a very good copy indeed in like d.w. London: Readers Library n.d. [ 1928 ]. hardcover
200521391New York: Little Brown & Co 2005. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Fine first edition in dustwrapper of this legal thriller by the author of The Concrete Blond and Blood Work. INITIALED by the author on the title page. Source for the film of the same name. <br/><br/> Little, Brown & Co hardcover books
271 pages, translated from the Swedish by Joan Tate, previous owner name on the inside front cover. eng
19541559New York: Random House Inc. 1954. First Edition First Printing. 8vo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm 248 pages in quarter cloth over paper boards titles to upper board and to spine. Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to spine edges internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some nicks and soiling.American journalists learn a secret about the head of the dreaded security police in a European people's democracy. They head for the border town of Skaro with the bad guys on their heels. A Cold War thriller. <br /><br /> Random House, Inc. hardcover books
19541559<p>New York: Random House Inc. 1954. First Edition First Printing.</p><p>Octavo 8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 208 x 140 mm 248 pages in quarter cloth over paper boards titles to upper board and to spine hard cover.</p><p>American journalists learn a secret about the head of the dreaded security police in a European people's democracy. They head for the border town of Skaro with the bad guys on their heels. A Cold War thriller. </p><p>CONDITION: Very Good or better in a Very Good dust jacket. Some light toning to spine edges internally clean and bright. The unclipped dust jacket has some nicks and soiling.<br /><br /></p> Random House, Inc. hardcover
12mo (150 x 85 mm) 12pp., several leaves mounted on stubs, new boards. Thomas Roe and Benjamin Miller, neither having reached the age of 23, were executed on Wednesday, April 2nd, 1823, for highway robbery. They were both natives of Nottingham, and together with a youth named Thomas Brooks, only 19 years of age, assaulted and robbed Samuel Marriot, a labourer, in the employ of Messrs. Simpson, Brick-hill Farm, near Arnold. They would have murdered their victim had not his cries have brought several persons to his assistance. Brooks was admitted evidence for the Crown and was saved.
187832526Chicago: Donnelley Lloyd & Co 1878. First Edition. Small octavo 18.5cm.; publisher's brown decorative cloth embossed in black and gilt blue-grey glazed endpapers; 256pp.; frontispiece full-page illus. throughout. Some light wear to extremities spine gilt rather dulled else Very Good or better. Memoir of the professional gambler/drunk-turned-evangelist. See BANTA's Indiana Authors and Their Books p. 195. Donnelley, Lloyd & Co unknown books
