London: Walker Books, (2009). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. Original coal colored boards, with decoration and lettering in burgundy. All edges red. Signed by the autor to the title page. An Alex Rider story. A fine copy in all respects.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1974. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. The dust jacket is bright and without tears or chipping. The jacket is price-clipped.
New York: Abelard-Schuman, (1956). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original burgundy cloth boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. With an excellent example of the very attractive illustrated dust jacket.
Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1960. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original mustard colored boards, lettered in gilt to the spine. A clean, bright and solid copy. A remainer "R" is stamped to the front free endpaper, else fine. A very nice copy.
London: John Long, (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original black cloth, lettered in silver to the spine. In a bright and very sharp example of the dust jacket.
New York: John Day, (1958). Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original pale blue cloth boards, with decoration to the front panel and lettering to the spine. The dust jacket is bright and complete. A closed tear at the bottom edge of the rear panel.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, (1950). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good / Very Good. Original black cloth, lettered in silver to the spine. In a bright and complete example of the lovely dust jacket. A shadow stain to the front paste-down, most likely from a piece of paper stored there by a previous owner. First edition statement to the copyright page.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1985. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. An extremely clean, bright and solid copy. Townshend's first book.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near fine. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Jacket designed by Lindsay Glegg. A Foreward by F. S. Smythe. Illustrated throughout with photographs. A lovely copy in all respects.
London: The Bodley Head, (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Very Good. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. 8vo - 297pp, 4pp of ads. In a very nice example of the complete dust jacket. Original wood engravings to the dust jacket by Joan Hassell. There is a large image on the front panel and a smaller.....
New York: Modern Library, No date but circa 1960. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original tan cloth. The dust jacket is very nice, presenting as new, though it is price-clipped. A very sharp copy of this volume.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1970. Secon Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. Original green cloth, lettered in gilt to the spine. Previous owner signature to the top of the title page. In a very solid original dust jacket. A clean and solid copy.
New York: Modern Library, No date, circa 1960. Hardcover. Very good / Very Good. Original green cloth. The jacket is complete though does show some edge fraying. The book is solid. There is some marginal notation. The jacket is not price-clipped.
London: Richard Field, William Jaggard and Thomas Harper for Nathaniell Butter, No date but after 1624? Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio, engraved title page, full page engraving with dedication to Henry Prince of Wales, engraved title to the Odyssey and again to the Batrachomyomachi all present in this copy including three original blanks. This copy without the portrait of Chapman and.....
London: William Cadman, 1684. First English Language Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Quarto volume, bound in modern "Cambridge" style full sprinkled calf. Spine is a full shade lighter than the boards. Title page reads - "The Whole Art Of The Stage/Containing/Not only the Rules of Drammatick Art, but/many curious Observations about it./Which may be of great use to the Authors, Actors,/and.....
London: Chapman And Hall, 1872-1874. First Edition. Leather bound. Near Fine. Three volumes, complete, now bound in 6 volumes. 8vo. This is an Extra Illustrated First Edition. There are 196 extra illlustrations, not including those bound originally in the books. The illustrations follow the life of Dickens, showing locations he visited, the people he encountered, and even some portraits of.....
Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1907. Hardcover. Near Fine. New and revised edition. 8vo, xii,327,(1)pp. Original blue cloth with elaborate decoration in gilt, red and blue. With fifty-four illustrations with a full color frontispiece with tissue guard. Fold-out map at the rear. Previous owner book-plate to the front paste-down, else fine.
London: Michael Joseph, (1980). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. The fifth title in the World War II Everard cycle.
London: Michael Joseph, (1981). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. A very clean, bright and solid copy. The sixth title in the World War II Everard cycle. A lovely copy indeed.
London: Wright & Brown, Ltd., (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine / Near Fine. In original canary yellow cloth, lettered in black to the spine. 8vo - 191 pp. A nautical murder mystery set in the south of England. No date anywhere on the book but Hubin states 1946 so 1946 it is. Very nice dust jacket art by Micklewright.....
(2017). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Gold sticker to the cover stating that this is a First Edition and contains a special full color illustration. First Edition statement to the copyright page and a number row with "1" as the lowest numeral.
Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solesmes: Abbaye Saint-Pierre de Solsmes, 1981. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Near Fine. Original black cloth lettered in gilt to the spine. All edges red. A green and red silk page marker. 560 [1] pp. Latin colophon to the rear. A prayer text and a musical text. All text in Latin. A single typed errata page is laid.....
Tarzana: Edgar Rice Burroughs, (1932). First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Original blue cloth, lettered in orange to the front panel and spine. This book has been re-cased, with the original spine laid down. It is now very tight and solid. Illustrated by Studley Burroughs. All first edition points.
Moscow: State Publisher of Fiction And Literature, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good. Original paper on boards. Text entirely in Russian. A clean and solid copy. Illustrated frontispiece and small vignette illustrations throughout.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (2014). First edition. Hardcover. Fine / Fine. As new. Unopened and unread. Signed by the author on the title page. One of the great books of 2014 and, in my opinion, of the new young century. Very difficult to put down. This one will cost you sleep. Complete number row to the copyright page -.....