London: Philip Allan, (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original pale blue cloth, lettered in black to the spine. In a bright and very attractive example of the very scarce dust jacket. The author's second novel. Listed in Bleiler. Aliens invade earth and they do not have good intentions. They aim to "paralyse and terrorise the peoples.....
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Good. Authors second book. Haycroft-Queen cornerstone. The book is very nice with just some light spotting to the endpapers and the spine ends rolled a bit. The spine shows some fading and there is some chipping at the foot of the spine. The verso of the jacket shows.....
London: Methuen, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good +. Original red cloth, image of jousting knight stamped in gilt on front cover. Lettered in gilt. 195 pp. With preface by Charles J. Ffoulkes, curator of the Armouries at the Tower. Frontispiece in full color and tissue guard and 18 black and white illustrations on twelve plates and three in-text diagrams.....
London: The Crime Club, (1940). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original orange cloth, lettered in black to the spine. George Cole's own copy of the book with a statement in his own hand to the front free endpaper - "Please return to/ G.D.H. Cole/74 Holders Hill Road/London, N.W.4." This one of a kind copy also comes with.....
London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Bound in original dark green cloth with lettering in gilt to the spine. In the complete and lovely illustrated dust jacket. This is the nicest copy of this title that I have handled. With a very lightly tipped in (easy to remove) book-plate to the front paste-down.....
London: Herbert Jenkins, (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original publisher's orange cloth with front panel and spine lettered in black. 8vo - 280 pp. In a bright example of the compelling dust jacket with minor edge-wear. The jacket's flaps have offset to the front and rear free endpapers. Small previous owner bookplate to the front free.....
New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1926. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. Scarce in jacket. Published in England as The Secret of the Hills. The first James Drew mystery. This one has a little bit of everything - hidden treasure, stately English Country House, London fog, secret codes and.....
New York: The Crime Club, Inc., 1930. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Bound in original black cloth, lettered in red. In a complete and very compelling period dust jacket. A book much praised by Barzun and Taylor (1538). Gordon is the pseudonym of Archibald Gordon MacDonnell. Listed in Hubin. Previous owner book-plate on front paste-down. The.....
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Tubner &Company, 1932. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original pale canary cloth on boards. The complete dust jacket has archival paper tape to the folds of the verso. Translated from the original Swedish by E. G. Nash. With 63 photographic plates. 4to. Jehol is the ancient name for the Summer Palace of.....
Chicago: Rand, McNally & Company, (1895). Hardcover. Near Fine. Original tan cloth lettered in gold with decorations in gold, brown, and light tan. Previous owner signature to a front blank. Four full page illustrations. Two pages of ads to the rear. Top edge gilt. Title page has "Dorothy's Double" and Rand, McNally & Company in red. The rest of the.....
New York: The John Day Co., 1958. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. One small chip to the top of the spine. Previous owner stamp on the ffep. Cover art by Paul Sagsoorian.
New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company - For The Crime Club, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth decorated with bright red background. In a very bright and quite cool example of the dust jacket which is price-clipped. A Lieutenant Valcour story. First Edition statement to the copyight page. A lovely copy in all respects. The.....
London: Hutchinson & Co., (1900). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original green cloth lettered in gilt with decorations in black, white, and brown. All edges gilt with board ends beveled. Contains stories by G. A. Henty, George Manville Fenn, Gordon Stables, Howard Pyle, Charles Dickens, David Ker and others. The catalogue at the rear lists 32 titles in 'The Fifty-Two.....
London: John Hamilton, (1939). Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in black to the spine. 8vo - 222 pp, 2 pp of publisher's ads to the rear. The book is clean, bright and solid with a slight closed nick at the head-piece. Internally the book is very clean and solid. All corners are true. The colorful.....
London: MacMillan, 1982. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A very clean and bright copy in a price-clipped dust jacket.
London: Thornton Butterworth, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / very good. A clean, bright and attractive copy of this extremely scarce volume. 8vo. A Crime Circle novel. Set aboard an ocean liner on the Atlantic before the war. Some minor chipping to the jacket. The jacket is price-clipped. Cover art by Bip Pares...
Philadelphia: The Passenger Department, 1875. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto, 3/4 leather mauve cloth inset, lettered and decorated in gilt. All edges marbled as well as the endpapers. Profusely illustrated throughout. Some very minor rubbing to the edges but overall a very lovely copy indeed.
London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, & Co., (1926). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good. Original red cloth on boards, lettered in black on the front panel and the spine. Previous owner name to the front paste-down. Occasional page creasing to the top right corner seemingly from an aggressive page turner anxiously looking forward to the next page. The.....
London: Effingham Wilson, 1830. First edition,later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. A lovely copy of the first edition but a later and corrected copy. 12mo - [iv], 154 pages with two page publisher's catalogue at the rear. Also, bound in at the rear are the original yellow wrappers. Now beautifully bound by Riviere & Son with their stamped name to the.....
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1879. First edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Original and lovely illustrated brown cloth lettered and brilliantly displayed in gilt. Beveled edges. Translated by Ellen E. Frewer. Barely visible minor drip stain down fore-edge side of front panel. Very slight lean and a narrow band of fraying along the top edge. First fully illustrated edition. Interesting.....
New York: The Crime Club, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. An extremely clean bright and pleasing copy. Lovely elaborate period full color art-work on the jacket.
Boston: Small, Maynard and Company, 1923. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. An extemely clean, bright and pleasing copy in a complete dust jacket. A few small smudges and very small chips to the foot of the spine. A very nice copy.
New York: World Wide Publishing, 1929. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. A lovely copy of a very scarce title in near fine condition. Original red cloth lettered in gilt. The pages are toning a bit along the edges.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1929). Later printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. A stunning copy in all respects. 8vo - 288 pages. Now beautifully bound by Anastasia "Annie" Power. Her initialled monogram is present at the lower rear inner dentelle. Now bound in full deep green morocco with ornate gilt rectilinear ruled borders on both the front and rear boards. The front panel.....
Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1934. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original orange cloth lettered and illustrated in black. Small original book-store sticker affixed to bottom edge of front free endpaper. This is the U.S. version of Right Ho, Jeeves. In a complete and very pleasing dust jacket with illustration by James Montgomery Flagg. Rear panel.....